Free The Book of Even More Awesome by Neil Pasricha Page A

require hours of boiling.)
    â€¢ Soft-serve ice cream. Don’t you love it when your local buffet has a soft-serve ice cream machine sitting right in the open? You can squeeze a little swirl into your warm, plastic wet-from-the-dishwasher bowl, or go cowboy and build the tallest, swirliest ice cream known to man.
    â€¢ Water. If you’ve got a drink in the kitchen, clean hands in the bathroom, and a hot shower in the tub, then today’s your day to say thanks.
    â€¢ Condiment pumps. Pump that watery ketchup and watch out for unexpected mustard opportunities.
    â€¢ The hot chocolate machine at a camp, cabin, or chalet. Let the good stuff pour out and let’s curl by the fire in thick wool sweaters under big poofy blankets.
    â€¢ Nacho cheese at the corner store. Now, here’s the heaviest hitter of all. When you swirl your salty nachos under that hot pump of oozing cheese, you’re in for a good night.
    Years later we were sitting around late one night and Chad once again told his famous chocolate milk story. Someone new piped in with a confused look and said, “So, Chad, did it actually change your life?” Chad responded right away. “Chocolate milk changed my life by confirming my desire to go to college. College changed my life because I realized there was more to taps than chocolate. There was beer and cider. There was mustard at the hot dog cart. There was instant water for hot chocolate, oatmeal, and tea. It really made me realize that this world has so many things to offer, on tap.”
    So let’s all say it here today: When we come face-to-face with anything on tap, all cans and bottles fade to black. We’ll just grab control of the boat and start pumping nozzles and squeezing triggers with reckless abandon, breaking free of the tight shackles of portion control and sailing deeper and deeper into a shadowy paradise of no rules ... no order ... and no limits.
    AWESOME!

When you sneeze and a stranger says bless you
    Warm Sunday dinners with family, late nights drinking with friends, studying with a group in your basement.
    All of these are high-odds scenes for scoring a blessing after you sneeze. Chances are good that if you explode in a loud bang of spit and phlegm at the dinner table, at least one of your aunts will say “Bless you” and there’s a good shot everyone will chime in. Same when you’re grabbing wings or cramming for biology.
    But when you’re on your own, it’s a whole different story.
    Tapping on a laptop at the library, washing your hands in the restaurant bathroom, double-stepping up the escalator on your way to work.
    These are low-odds scenes for netting a blessing. The people around you don’t know you and maybe don’t notice you. But when you sneeze and there’s just silence, it’s a bit awkward. I always feel a little lonely in those situations. “Didn’t anyone just hear me sneeze?” I want to ask. But instead I just finish washing my hands and wonder if my released spirit is now floating around the urinals.
    This is why there’s something cool about a stranger saying bless you. It’s even better when you say nothing before the free blessing and they say nothing afterward. Like a friendly smile on a passing escalator or an empathetic laugh behind you in line, it’s just a momentary little politeness blip .
    AWESOME!

Rubbing someone’s newly shaved head
    Feel the buzz and rub that fuzz.
    AWESOME!

Looking at how much dirt came off something you just cleaned
    My apartment looks over a busy downtown intersection.
    Shredded bird feathers, swirling dust funnels , and car exhaust fumes cover my balcony in a thick layer of city grime.
    If you come over and go out there, I’ll tell you to put shoes on or suffer shocking sockicide . Don’t believe me and your white socks will suffer a case of career-ending blackfoot. It’s a bad way to go and generally results in grabbing a new