Month: March 2022

I came out of the grocery store the other day, and for the second time that day, I was looking around for my car.  Yes, if you too are looking ahead to see where this is going, you’ll have guessed that I went in the wrong direction.  It all seemed so simple.  I left the car in a parking aisle that was right opposite the exit, so it should have been simple.  Easy peasy.  No worries.  Except that there was a line-up.  It looked like a dealership for white cars only.  Back home now, the anxiety is receding.  I’m calm now.  No need to panic.  I realize that it’s not me.  I don’t need one of those memory enhancers.  There are just too many white cars out there.

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A few years ago, I had a cd of Steve Martin’s stand-up comedy.  In it, he mentioned that he’d bought some “really stupid stuff”.  I can’t recall all the items, but one such was a “gas-powered turtle neck”.  It seems to me that appearing on the horizon are a number of items that might be approaching this category.  They may have a purpose, but do we really, really, need them?

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I had to replace my coffee maker a short while ago.  This one beeps at me, which the old one didn’t.  I know, right?  It beeps five times to tell me the pot is brewed and ready.  It also randomly beeps at me for no apparent reason.  Perhaps it’s telling me it has been on too long and needs a coffee break – rather ironic.  Remember when a dump truck backing up was the only thing that beeped at us?  Ah, yes, the good old days.  

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