Last week, Life in the Boomer Lane’s blog, cleverly titled Life in the Boomer Lane, hit 15,000 followers. In order to put this number into perspective, she hereby provides you with a handy reference guide as to how significant this number actually is:
15000: The number of military deferments given to Donald Trump during the Vietnam war.
15000: The number of times Hillary Clinton had to testify about her emails
15000: The number of vehicles waiting in line to enter the Whole Foods Market parking lot in Arlington, VA on a weekday after 5 PM.
15000: The number of years science has been set back recently
15000: The number of times LBL has had some kind of mishap at the airport.
15000: The number of times LBL has heard “No problem” from people, instead of “You’re welcome”
15000: The number of inches long Trump’s nose would be if he were Pinocchio
15000: The average lb gain and loss during most women’s lifetimes.
15000: The number of attendees at this year’s UFO festival in Roswell, NM
15000: The number of UFOs seen by Now Husband’s mother, from her condo balcony
15000 The number of departments LBL has to be transferred to in order to get to an actual customer service person who can help her
15000: Trump’s self-expressed IQ, until someone told him that the maximum IQ ever recorded was 228. He then revised his IQ down to 229.
15000: The number of calories in a fried mac n cheese at the Iowa State Fair
15000: The number of robocalls LBL gets each evening around dinner time
15000: The number of electoral college votes Trump claimed he got
15000: the weight in lbs of the Restoration Hardware catalog
15000: the number of attendees every three weeks at the Creation Museum, who see displays of cavemen running around with dinosaurs
15000: The number of reality shows now on TV
15000: the number of years it will take for the world to recover from this current administration
15000: In the US, the average number of sexual partners in a lifetime is 7, except for Louisiana at 15.7 and Utah at 2.6. These numbers have nothing to do with 15000, but LBL has added them to reward you for reading this entire blog post.
Life in the Boomer Lane 
Anonymous
October 16, 2017
congratulations – that’s a big number!
Life in the Boomer Lane
October 17, 2017
Thanks, although, like everything else, it’s relative. There are many bloggers with 25,000, 50,000, 100,000 followers or more. We don’t talk about those people.
Andrew Reynolds
October 16, 2017
congratulations!
Life in the Boomer Lane
October 17, 2017
Thanks, Andrew.
nrhatch
October 16, 2017
Good list!
Life in the Boomer Lane
October 17, 2017
Thanks, Nancy.
ugiridharaprasad
October 17, 2017
Reblogged this on ugiridharaprasad.
Life in the Boomer Lane
October 17, 2017
Thanks for the reblog!
bone&silver
October 17, 2017
And you deserve every single one, your blog is totally awesome/well-informed/funny as fuck/without spelling mistakes. For this last one alone, you deserve us all 😊😘
Life in the Boomer Lane
October 17, 2017
Wow, thanks,. I will admit, I am the worst speller in the history of the world. I blame this on having spent most of first grade being absent from school. But I do know how to use spell check. That and GPS have saved my butt on many occasions.
Ilona Elliott
October 18, 2017
HA! So funny. Your Mother in Law sounds like a trip LBL!
Life in the Boomer Lane
October 19, 2017
She was a huge believer of the existance of alien life. Went to a huge conference one year in Nevada. And she absolutely insisted that every single night at some exact time, like 1 or 3, a space ship flew across the sky in front of her balcony. I kept telling Now Husband we should drive over there one night to witness it, but that would mean getting out of bed, getting dressed, getting into the car….
Ilona Elliott
October 20, 2017
She sounds a lot like my brother who we discovered has been bi-polar for most of his life, just never had a physic break until he was 56 years old, so we all thought he was just a little “eccentric”. He’s a big Trump fan of course.
Life in the Boomer Lane
October 26, 2017
I have known bi-polar people. I am sad for your brother. As for the Trump part, that would make an interesting study: The percentage of people with emotional disorders who are Trumpers.
Life in the Boomer Lane
October 26, 2017
My mother-in-law was an intriguing person. She was raised in real wealth (which disappeared by the time she was born) from a prominent Turkish family (part of the Ottoman Court). She had the mannerisms of royalty but loved dollar stores, McDonalds, and aliens.
montanalulu
October 22, 2017
oh, my god, i have just spent the last hour laughing my ass off while reading your blog posts….you have created a serious rabbit hole in the universe…thanks so much for making my day…carry on!
Life in the Boomer Lane
October 26, 2017
I am overwhelmed at your comments. In spite of the fact that, because of this administration, I believe I should be running the world, I am usually more humble. Your comments mean a lot to me.
Sienna (@datingseniormen)
October 23, 2017
The “no problem” response is right up there on my most feared and hated list, along with dangling participles. Fortunately, as a writer of your 15000 Blog, dangling participles are never used here.
Life in the Boomer Lane
October 26, 2017
No dangles, for sure. I could easily write about all of the other times I have observed atrocities against the English language (Trump, alone, wields his words like blunt instuments), but my readers would find something more interesting to focus on, like counting their collection of little twist ties.
dufmanno
October 26, 2017
I’ve been guilty of a dangling participle once or twice, mostly because I’m lazy and have ceased caring- but I’ll be damned if I let that get in the way of your 15000 news. Congrats!