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Random Thing #23
Family outings mean one thing — five people in a five-person car. Though our destinations always change, there is one constant: I get stuck sitting in the middle back seat — man's most uncomfortable creation.

So to entertain myself (and annoy everyone else) on long trips, I often end up imitating the beaver from Lady and the Tramp... you know the one who whistlesss when he talksss? It's a ssspecial sssort of sssskill, you could sssay.

What makes it even funnier (to me) is that my brother Nick, for the life of him, can't figure out how to do it. Here are a few attempts I captured on video, one in 2006 and one in 2008. (If you listen closely to the first one, you can hear my mom yell "Devon, knock it off!" — we had been in the car for a while that day, and she had had quite enough of me).