This week, Sonya Sotomayor had the distinct honor of being the first justice of the Supreme Court that I have ever dreamt about. Which is weird because I spend my days cutting out pictures of John Paul Stevens. It's not that I don't like Sonya; in fact, she gave me some great relationship advice while I rode her water slides, which I promise you is not as dirty as that made it sound. It's just that I never thought I'd dream of her before notorious SCOTUS heartthrob, JPS.
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| John Paul Stevens talking to the woman of my dreams, I guess. |
But don't worry, dear reader, I won't be giving you a SCOTUS fun fact. After all the POTUS shenanigans, I think we could all use a rest from flirting with government types. But I thought maybe we could do a sleepy times fact. So that it is still related to my weird confession about Justice Sotomayor.
Fun Fact: It is against the law to sleep on top of a refrigerator in Pennsylvania. But only outside.
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| "Now, we got this new fridge, honey. But it is not going to come on our nature naps, okay?" - Daddy McFifties |
There are a lot of crazy laws out there, and it is vaguely startling that I haven't done a fun fact about any of them yet. After all, some friends and I dyed margarine pink once because it is illegal in my home state of New Hampshire. (Also, I sure hope we're past the statute of limitations on that. It would really ruin my badass reputation if I got jailed for something so trivial.)
But I think I try to avoid strange laws because, try as I might, I can never find any more information. Sure, this law is in a bunch of books and a lot of strange law websites, and it probably is real. But my delicious yogurt and I would feel a lot better if our searches on the Pennsylvania General Assembly's website turned up more than two laws (passed last year) pertaining to fridges.
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| American families still love to spend time together while leaving the fridge door open for no apparent reason. |
I assume there is an explanation for this law that probably involves a drunk person and a fridge outside a Wawa. But I can't say for sure. The Pennsylvania General Assembly has thwarted me again! So until I find out otherwise, I'm going to assume this law was written because of something salacious. That's right. In my mind Pennsylvania is now overrun with nude people routinely sleeping on their lawn refrigerators. You might think that would be covered by indecent exposure. But when indecent exposure is concerned, I find fewer things are covered than you would expect.
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| "That nudity pun was so cool, I'm in a fridge." - Giraffe G. Raffington |
Anyway, ball's in your court Pennsylvania. Or rather, your legislature!
And now I'm done. I promise.
Enjoyable and thought-provoking as always. You may or may not have known that I grew up in Pennsylvania; my cousins there were fond of telling me, as often as they could, that on Sundays, in PA, it was illegal to chase an Indian over the border. Apocryphal? Perhaps. (Racist? But of course!--but you'd have to have known that side of my family.)
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