One of the pleasures of physics at the everyday scale is the challenge that every observation brings, sometimes quite literally, to the (kitchen) table. There are many such curiosities that we have spent ink on…  including such examples as the physics of opening envelopes, the paper cut and the guillotine, the hydrodynamics of writing (without a blot),    the tumbling of cards,  the elements of a drape, the crumpling of paper, the chaotic dripping faucet, the dynamics of avalanches in a salt cellar, the probability of heads in a coin toss, the curling of wet paper, the motion of a ruck in a rug and dislocation theory,  balancing on a  slackline, the fluid dynamics of Pollock’s paintings, etc. There are many such familiar, but nevertheless not well-understood phenomena, and  we continue to be fascinated by these simple puzzles that often hide general truths.