Charlie was not the kind of guy who went for things impulsively. Not that he lacked spontaneity, it's just he's a tad cynical and doesn't go for unrequested offers. He remembers smirking when his softball buddy told him about flirting with the call taker on HSN and taping it. Charlie wondered why the guy bought anything from HSN. But this is about an impulse Charlie followed and the amazing unintentional outcome. Charlie signed up with the Inner Cranial Cosmic Microwave Project which is similar to the Genome Project except instead of mapping DNA, this project was mapping multiverse components using volunteers to actually visit the bubble universe in another space and time. Charlie received his headset in the mail then logged on to the project website and in an instant was in a place unlike any he imagined then quickly applied the Return protocol and sat in his media room in a daze over what just happened. To move this story along to the amazing part, let it suffice to say that Charlie enticed three of his friends to sign up and pledge to apply synchronicity to this experience and rendezvous with him in the alternate realm. The first attempt at this resulted in only Charlie and Duane meeting up but eventually all four found themselves gathered in this cosmic wilderness bedazzled, bothered and bewildered by the reality of this heavenly haven. Just a little more background: Duane was Charlie's friend and neighbor who worked in the produce department at Ralph's. Vel worked with Charlie. Vel is short for Velvet, his nickname from childhood (his real name is Dwight). Kevin played on that same softball team mentioned above and Charlie, a spiritual fun lover round out the foursome. So here's the amazing part of this story: The first real discussion by the four realm travelers about how to explain this to their family and mates quickly showed the Hangover factor affecting this group when Duane listened to the question "what challenge should this group tackle to bring a solution to the other universe?" and he answered "areolas". "What?" Charlie exclaimed. Duane went on to explain that every guy he ever met was curious about the areolas of every female they come in contact with. Vel got up and walked away. Kevin threw an imaginary baseball glove to the ground. But Duane insisted this was not a sexist ploy. He hypothesized that mammals nursing their young was the evolutionary gateway to all existing realms which could be proven by mapping the areolas of mothers linking the findings to this project and leapfrogging realm travel by decades. What? You don't get the amazing aspect of this? You think it's just more cheap blather about mammalia under the guise of something worthwhile. //imaginary keyboard gets thrown to the floor.