10 Things: TIPS

Okay everyone. Stretch your fingers. Take out a blank page. It’s time for 10 THINGS!  I give you a prompt, and you write down or type out the first 10 Things you think of. Be serious. Be silly. Just play with the words for a few minutes. There are no wrong answers, and no one will take away your birthday if you think of something absurd. In fact we might just love the absurd things the best. Put your 10 Things in the comments and then read mine.

Ready? What are the first 10 Things you think of when I say…

TIPS

Go!!!

~This space left intentionally blank to limit my influence on your 10 Things~ 

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My TIPS

1.  From the TIPS or your nose to the TIPS of your toes. All of you.

2.  “TIPS” written on the side of the jar, on the counter, in the sandwich shop, decorated with multi-colored squiggles by the guy wearing the rainbow cap over his unwashed hair. 

3. The TIPS of the fingers. FingerTIPS touching each other. FingerTIPS on the window, watching someone leave.

4.  The TIPS of hair. The ends.  TIPped, to be a different color from the rest of the hair, like the lead singer of Berlin in the video for “Take My Breath Away.” That’s what it was called, right?

5. TIPS over. When the little cup of water is filled by the fountain, it TIPS over to drench the giggling child standing underneath. 

6. TIPSy. A little drunk. I’m wondering if he’ll fall on his butt when the chair TIPS over.

7. TIPS from Crimestoppers. Bits of information given anonymously to the police, to help solve crimes. 

8. TIPS about stocks. Sometimes legal. Sometimes called Insider Trading.

9. TIPS off. Warns that something unexpected is about to happen. 

10. Steak TIPS. No, beef TIPS. What recipe would be good for beef TIPS? Would it involve gravy? How about onions?

11. Bonus TIPS (Full Disclosure: some of these acronyms are real. I know because I looked them up. Some of them aren’t. I know because I made them up.) T.I.P.S. An acronym for something, but what? Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, Training for Intervention Procedures (for servers of alcohol), Tobacco Information and Prevention Source, Trevor’s Inevitable Party Syndrome, Tots Inciting Pickle Stomping, Terrible Innovations in the Postal Service, True Incidents in Parrot Singing) 

Add your 10 Things or your T.I.P.S. in the comments. Right now.