Casual Dress Friday; I’d like some answers
Posted on May 16, 2008
Filed Under Casual Dress Fridays
When you’re me and your brain has a tendency to go off in seemingly random directions for no apparent reason, you sometimes end up with a big stack of unanswered questions. Add to that having a wife and teenage son who offer additional random questions for which there seems to be no answer and well you get the point.
Here’s a sampling of what I’d like to know:
Why do I or in this case my wife, continue to win random lotteries that we never entered…in Guatemala? Seriously, not a week goes by when I don’t hear from some corner of our home this phrase; “Honey, guess what we just won 2.7 million dollars in the Guatemalan lottery. All we have to do is send them $23,908 and then they’ll send us the rest. Where’s the checkbook?”
Why am I addicted to ‘The Superficial’? Seriously, it’s a complete waste of time, it’s nothing but senseless gossip, but yet it always makes me laugh…sometimes to the point of spitting various liquids on my keyboard…sometimes through my nose.
Why do I park on a driveway, but drive on a parkway? It’s an oldie, but still unanswered.
How can oil company executives get on the Today show and with a straight face tell me and Matt that it’s OK for them to make 10.9 billion dollars profit per quarter? He must use some kind of Jedi mind trick, because for about 30 seconds I was actually buying his ‘well, we spend huge sums on production and our profit is actually around .10 on every dollar….blah, blah, blah. It almost worked and then I went and spent $93 to fill up my tank and then I wanted to hunt him down and force him to watch endless repeats of The Hills, and A shot at love with Tila Tequila…but I digress.
How come the bible only talks about tithing like once or twice, but most pastors feel the need to bring it up almost every week. I’m fairly sure God’s not short on cash.
Why in the year 2008 are our kids still only in school 9 months a year? I get that 100 years ago they needed to be out of school in the summer to help harvest crops, but I don’t have any corn or wheat on my back 40, so my kid can keep right on going.
When did coffee become an accessory? Think back 10 years ago, how many people coming into your building did you see with a coffee cup? Now, if we don’t have a Starbucks cup in hand we feel naked….since I work from home and brew my own sometimes this is literally true, but again I digress.
When did a 40 hour work week stop being the norm (I’ll be writing more on this next week so stay tuned…we call that a teaser)? I saw the following quote recently ‘Harvard economist Juliet B. Schor, in her book The Overworked American, writes that “The average employed person is now on the job an additional 163 hours, or the equivalent of one month a year, compared to figures for 1969.” Even with 120 hours a year of vacation they’re still screwing us out of 43 hours…bastards.
Why does the guy who sings the ‘freecreditreport.com’ song have to work in a cheesy fish place dressed as a pirate? He’s got bad credit, but we don’t make people walk the plank for that…at least not anymore.
That’s all I got for this week, besides I need to go out check The Superficial. Have a great weekend!
Until next time…
I don’t think pastors talk about tithing because God is short on cash
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@Mike -I don’t think so either.
LOL C L A S S I C !!!!! Scotty gets my vote to be a 3rd writer on Pop Critics… well said my friend…