There are so
many oddities and quirks in our world that people can publish and remark on all
sorts of silliness. My observations aren't
worth raw beans, but here are the unseen and inexplicable things in my daily
life:
- Gas pump card readers: why do some people, with driver’s licenses, look at them befuddled, like they’re about to be eaten by them?
- Self-checkout at stores: there ought’a be a license to use them. I’ve seen some doozies as folks pretend they’re back in high school chemistry class when they sneak up to the reader and touch the picture pad.
- The downtrodden and despairing ones, all around us in plain sight. I’m clueless on how I could help other than one thing at a time, but a 5-spot won’t solve world hunger.
- What's underneath many of our car hoods. Unseen as long as Herbie starts and there aren't any red lights on the dash. Don't shake your head - you know I'm right!
- Sadly, race relations. I see a void, an abyss of expectations between some major groups in our society. The Trayvon Martin tragedy further shows how perceptions silently shape us into who we are. I know I see it but do I see it ‘correctly?’ Is there a ‘correct’ view? Nope, so it will remain sight unseen except within each of our hearts.
10 books
from the 21st century every man should read:
Weird and
Wacky Festivals around the World:
I think the World Wife-carrying Competition
(Finland) and the World Body-painting Competition (Austria) are the choicest
ones!
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