I love Dave Berry - Year in Review-Did That REALLY happen?
Looking back on 2017 is like waking up after a party where you made some poor decisions, such as drinking tequila squeezed from the underpants of a person you do not really know. (At least you hope it was tequila.)
The next day finds you lying naked in a dumpster in a different state, smeared from head to toe with a mixture of Sriracha sauce and glitter. At first you remember nothing. But then, as your throbbing brain slowly reboots, memories of the night before, disturbing memories, begin creeping into your consciousness. As the full, hideous picture comes into focus, you curl into a ball, whimpering, asking yourself over and over: Did that really happen
.....
...were there really thousands of people marching around Washington wearing vagina hats?
And did the secretary of state really call the president of the United States a "moron?"
And did the president (of the United States!) respond by challenging the secretary of state to compare IQ tests?
We want to believe that we imagined these things. But we fear we did not.
There's one thing we definitely remember happening in 2017: the "fidget spinner" fad. This was huge, and for a good reason: It was extremely stupid. In terms of mental stimulation, fidget-spinning makes nose-picking look like three-dimensional chess. You mindlessly spin the thing around and around, accomplishing nothing. It's an idiotic, brain-cell-destroying waste of time.
So it was the perfect fad for 2017.
More-Month by Month of "Oh, Yah - that did happen":
https://www.adn.com/arts/2017/12/31/dave-barrys-year-in-review-yeah-that-really-happened/
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