How To Become a Firefighter: What I’ve Learned

 Growing up on a small farm gives me a different perspective on food. One of the animals I helped raise was chickens. The first year when it came time to slaughter them, my parents thought it would be a good idea to make it a family affair, without any formal training, previous experience, or subject matter expert on site to show them how to most effectively do it. As you can imagine, it was an absolute disaster and I had a front row seat. Just to confirm, yes chickens absolutely do run around headless for way longer than one might think. None of us expected it and the very first chicken ran off into the woods without a head. It was my job to go find it and I’ll just say I was gone for quite awhile trying to catch it. Well after that nightmarish experience we started taking our chickens to a slaughterhouse. Having been in a chicken slaughterhouse, much like the one in the film “Fresh” I randomly think about it when I’m eating chicken, even now as an adult. To this day I still do no...

It seems like everyone I talk to wants a puppy, but let me tell you, they are a handful. Puppy’s take up a lot of your time, so if you don’t have much of it I suggest you don’t buy one. My wife insisted we get a puppy after the birth of our son so they could grow up together and be best friends. I raised two puppies before I met my wife so I knew it wouldn’t be easy and was totally against it. In fact I actually cringed at the idea, but we compromised and got one (happy wife, happy life is so true). Ever since we brought this loving menace of a puppy home, our lives have irrevocably changed. Our dog, which I do love trust me, has taken it upon herself to make sure we have all of the newest things for the house. She does this by destroying everything in sight if she’s left alone for any  amount of time. These aren’t our dogs, but the results are pretty much the same. I can say, we have experienced everything in the pictures with our pup. We were at the local grocery store for about ...

  The creatures of this commercial are targeting anybody that has ever owned a cat or has ever known anyone who had a cat. Every action that mayhem does is re-enacting what cats stereotypically do. Chances are that most people who watch this can relate to more than one of the actions by mayhem. The creatures do a great job of making these bad behaviors funny. The re-enactments are meant to make the viewer laugh a little. This will stick in the viewer’s head and they will want to share the funny moment with someone so they have someone to laugh with, thus spreading the commercial for the company (free advertising).  Each incident that mayhem is involved in gets progressively worse, up to and including the ceiling falling down because of the water left on in the sink on the floor above. Allstate most likely pulls from real incidents where they’ve actually paid out insurance claims. The deadpan personality of mayhem plays into the comedy of the ad as well. Mayhem is even wearing ...