1. I hate "pushing 1 for English" for two reasons. One, if I don't pick one of the choices, what language are they going to review the menu in (English, right?), and two, the default should be English- if you want something else, then you can pick.
2. Why do cars push me out of the fast lane into the slow lane so they can pass me and then pull in front of me in the slow lane to get off at the next exit ?
3. Christmas shopping is tough this year:
The kids have grown up and I can't fill their stockings with Hot Wheels and chocolate kisses.
You can't put iPhone apps in a stocking.
All of my favorite "peruse" stores are gone. For the most part, if you buy on the web, you have to know what you want first.
Bookstores don't have enough stock anymore to look until you find something good.
Nobody wants DVDs or CDs anymore because they are available online electronically.
I'm tempted to replace the stockings with MyXmasStocking.com
4. My wife keeps telling me that we are not doing "much" for each other this year since we just got the house painted, paid taxes on three properties and had two trees removed. I really can't read what "much" is, but whatever I interpret that as, I will be wrong!
5. This year my wife wanked on me that she has been putting up the tree for 29 years and wants absolutely nothing to do with it this year. Ev and I went to Home Depot and picked out a tree, a seven foot Doug Fir. It was a nice tree. We had it up and partially decorated when my wife got home. First, "It isn't a Noble Fir. How come ?". I explained that the Doug Fir was only $25 rather than the Noble's $80 price tag, and I though I was doing a good thing AND you didn't want anything to do with it. Then, "It doesn't have the right garland on it.", but you said that you didn't want anything to do with it. I put the other garland on it. Since she says that it looks pretty good, for the price. Why didn't she give me INSTRUCTIONS ?
6. Frequently people don't want to listen to my perspective and then just as often, they're sorry later.
7. How come some people can afford a gardener or having someone detail their new car in the driveway, but don't think painting their house is a justified expense ?
8. Why do we push to recycle glass and then spend the same amount of energy to sort colors, crush and remake the bottles instead of washing them ?
9. Why have the plastic bag recycle stations disappeared from the markets ?
10. Why does Kodak push the affordability of their new printer ink, but they only make it in containers that fit on their lousy printers ? [Another recipe for failure.]
11. Why is it that there are a thousand holiday contests, plus Lotto, Mega and scratch-offs and I never win anything ?
1. I hate "pushing 1 for English" for two reasons. One, if I don't pick one of the choices, what language are they going to review the menu in (English, right?), and two, the default should be English- if you want something else, then you can pick.
