Living My Dream » People http://dimbu.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:03:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Opposite Is True http://dimbu.com/2009/04/the-opposite-is-true.html http://dimbu.com/2009/04/the-opposite-is-true.html#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:41:14 +0000 admin http://www.cherishallmemories.com/?p=1471 Western Mivhigan is plagued by snowy winters, requiring that salt be put on road surfaces to make them safer to travel. The problem is that salt eats away at a car’s metal body. So, going to a car wash is a frequent winter ritual.

Recently I was sitting in a car-wash facility near the end of the washing process when the machines began to spray a special liquid all over the car. The sign said “drying agent,”
But that struck me as odd. Wetting something down to dry it seems contrary to what you’d expect. Yet that is precisely what those chemicals are designed to do. It is counter-intuitive thinking.

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