In Spring I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hrs. -Mark Twain
In Spring I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hrs. -Mark Twain
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Eleventh Year of Publication
All opinions in the Digest are expressed solely by the Digester and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Why Not Travel Store, its owners, or its wonderful staff
May 8
A man has six children and he's absolutely beaming with pride over his accomplishments. He struts around town with the swagger of a man who believes he's singlehandedly populated the earth. He's so pleased with himself that he begins to refer to his wife, much to her annoyance, as mother of six. It doesn't matter if they're at home, at the grocery store, or out with friends. He's relentless. "Mother of six, can you pass the salt? Mother of six, did you pick up the dry cleaning?" She rolls her eyes every time, but he just grins, basking in what he considers his undeniable success.
One evening, they attend a fancy party with all their friends and acquaintances. The man is mingling with guests, entertaining them with tales of fatherhood, and of course, dropping his wife's new title at every opportunity. "Ah, yes. I'd like you to meet the mother of six," he says, puffing out his chest while his wife sips her drink, trying to keep her patience.
As the night wears on and the party starts winding down, the man decides it's time to leave. He scans the room for his wife, but she's nowhere to be seen. Figuring she might be ready to go, too, he decides to make a grand exit. He cups his hands around his mouth and shouts across the crowded room, "Shall we go home, mother of six?"
The room falls silent and heads turn, eyebrows raised. His wife standing by the Hors-d’oeuvres feels a flush of heat rise to her cheeks. She's had just about enough of his antics. So without missing a beat, she puts down her plate, turns around, and in a voice just as loud and clear, she calls back, "Anytime you're ready, father of four."
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1835 - First installment of Hans Christian Andersen's "Fairy Tales" is published by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1886 - Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta sells the first Coca-Cola (contained cocaine).
1895 - China cedes Taiwan to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
1902 - Mount Pelée on the French overseas island of Martinique erupts, wiping out the city of Saint-Pierre, killing 30,000 people and leaving only two survivors.
1945 - V-E Day: World War II ends in Europe after Germany's General Wilhelm Keitel formally signs unconditional surrender to the Allies represented by the United States, the UK, France and the Soviet Union in Berlin, Germany signs an unconditional surrender.
1980 - World Health Organization announces smallpox has been eradicated.
1993 - Sixteen-year-old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman and takes a NYC subway train with 2,000 passengers on a three-hour ride.
1926: Mr. Warmth, comedian Don Rickles, was born on this day.
VE (Victory in Europe) Day - Day to rejoice as the war in Europe came to a close!!

I started writing The Digest in the third quarter of 2015. I was filling in as temporary General Manager until we could find a permanent one to take over the leadership of the store. I had some time on my hands and was kicking around how to fill it when I remembered an idea I saw in a hotel in Winslow, Az. called La Posada. (Wonderful hotel BTW) In the lobby, they had a chalk board and on it was some simple trivia that happened on that day as well as the weather forecast of sunny, hot, cold rainy or whatever the day was going to bring. I stole some of those ideas and came up with the WNTS Digest. As I was temporarily living at the time in Why, I would spend some time each morning putting together those trivia facts, weather, a cute Pet Picture of the Day from Freekibble.com and an ad hoc picture of something I talked about in the Digest. I would then print the two pages out and tack it to our Bulletin Board in front of the store. The two pictures to the left are from a copy of the Digest that was published in or around February 2016. Eventually we found a permanent GM and I went back to my home in Northern California. A few months later, I was asked to stand up a website for the store and because I didn’t need to be at the site, I was able to do my work in California. When designing the site, I wanted to incorporate the concepts of The Digest. It had paused publication when I moved and here was an opportunity to bring it back in electronic form.

So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ report is now the 'Current Weather' and is displayed as a widget on both the Home Page and The Digest. We kept Today in History, Born on this Day, Today is (national quirky holidays), moved Pet Picture of the Day to its’ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became “Why Nutts!!” and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a ‘Quote of the Day’ but transitioned that into ‘Joke of the Day’ after I felt that the quotes were getting to bizarre, even for me.
And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!
- Digester, 2025