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Woman Uses Chopsticks To Eat One Grain of Rice At A Time, Sets Guinness Record
By Ben Hooper
Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A woman from Bangladesh used chopsticks to lift one grain of rice at a time and man- aged to eat a record- breaking 37 pieces in one minute.
Sumaiya Khan, 24,
told Guinness World Records she has been using chopsticks to eat all of her meals for a few years.
"I had a thing for ramen back in the day, I was obsessed with ramen and loved Korean culture so that's when I got my own personal chopsticks and since then I've eaten almost all of my food using them, and especially since I'm Bangladeshi I eat rice almost every single day," Khan said.
A coworker took note of Khan's rice-eating skills and suggested she might be able to break the record for the most rice grains eaten in one minute using chopsticks, which previously stood at 27.
Khan easily defeated the record by eating 37 grains of rice, one at a time.
"It feels surreal, it feels amazing and everyone around me is proud of me for actually attempting it," she said. "I feel proud of myself for doing it too because it's such a great thing to actually achieve, having your name out there in the world and being part of something so big, it's actually amazing and I'm honored and blessed and proud and every other good thing that I can say about it."
During her physi- cal examination, a doctor asked a retired woman about her physi- cal activity level. The woman said she spent 3 days a week, every week, in the out- doors.
"Well, yesterday afternoon was typical; I took a five hour walk about 7 miles through some pretty rough ter- rain. I waded along the edge of a lake. I pushed my way through 2 miles of bram- bles. I got sand in my shoes and my eyes. I barely avoided stepping on a snake. I climbed several rocky hills. I went to the bathroom behind some big trees. I ran away from an irate mother bear and then ran away from one angry bull elk. The men- tal stress of it all left me shattered, so I drank a scotch and three glasses of wine."
Amazed by the story, the doctor said, "You must be one heck of an outdoor woman!"
"No," the woman replied, "I'm just a really bad golfer!"
Sarah was read- ing a newspaper, while her hus- band was engrossed in a magazine. Suddenly, she burst out laugh- ing. "Listen to this," she said. "There's a classi- fied ad here where a guy is offering to swap his wife for a sea- son ticket to the stadium."
"Hmmm," her husband said, not looking up from his magazine.
Teasing him, Sarah said, "Would you swap me for a season ticket?"
"Absolutely not," he said.
"How sweet," Sarah said. "Tell me why not."
"Season's almost half over," he said.
Murphy and his wife went for a stroll in the park. They sit down on a bench to rest
for awhile. Soon they overhear voices coming from a secluded spot nearby.
Suddenly, Mrs. Murphy realizes that a young man is about to pro- pose. Not wanting to be eavesdrop- ping during such an intimate moment, she gen- tly nudges her husband and whispers, "Whistle, to let that young couple know that some- one can hear them."
To which Murphy replies, "Whistle? Why should I whistle? Nobody whistled to warn me?"
"Excuse me," a young fellow said to an older man, "I've just moved here and I won- der if this town has any criminal lawyers?"
"Well," replied the older man, "I have lived here all my life and all I can tell you is we are pretty sure we do, but no one has been able to prove it yet."
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