Nobody asked me, but…

…how come the cashiers at the grocery store, when they forget to scan your coupons, aren’t allowed to just scan and refund?  Instead, we all get to go wait in the customer service line to get our coupon money.  Actually, how come the cashiers can’t just scan our coupons at the *beginning* of our order instead of at the end?  (This is the attitude that happens, by the way, when a long-time computer programmer knows that things could be better.)

… why don’t they use see-through plastic for the bottoms of the meat containers we buy at the grocery store?  Well, we all know why, it’s so they can put the bone or less attractive parts of the parcel on the bottom so we won’t see them.  The real question, I suppose, us how come we customers haven’t risen up and insisted that they do?

…a coffee maker with a timer represents one of humanity’s greater votes of confidence that tomorrow will actually come.

…could the problem of race cars flying through the air be solved by the simple act of putting a hinge at the bottom of the rear spoiler, so it doesn’t catch the air like a wing when the car gets backwards, but instead just folds down?  Just wondering.

… I wonder what the Dasani and Aquafina folks think of not being generally categorized with ‘water’ at the grocery store:

…could it be that NASCAR has given up trying to be like the NFL, and are now trying to be like Formula 1?  I mean more road courses, number placement, and now the single lug nut and the like.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see pit stops with a dozen crew members next.

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