Three Quickies: No. 2 - Which way up is up?

Sometimes I just like to be contrary. So one day when I was frustrated by how poorly the dry-erase markers were working, I tossed the red one back into the holder upside down.

I mean, we all know they should be caps up, right? That's a lesson learned from the old leaky-fountain-pen-in-the-shirt-pocket episode.

So there, I thought. Take that!

Imagine my surprise the next day when I went to use the red marker and it wrote like it was brand new! No more dried out, barely pink scribbles. It was bold red again - voila!

So you see, Timmy (more about that another time), it's not that they've dried out, even though until recently they've been used very infrequently. The problem has just been gravity, which is now working in our favor.

And to think I almost threw them away. Chock one up for the contrarian.