So I probably think a little differently than the average person. I recognize that….and I am alright with it. But sometimes….I just wonder about things.
For instance…my little sister and I have a thing we do. We disagree with which direction the toilet tissue should be placed in the holder. So when I am at her house….I change it to my way.
…when she is at my house…she changes it to her way.
I’m sure you can see that I am clearly right.
We have a lot of fun as we disappear into every bathroom, especially before we leave each others home, and quickly change every roll in the house to OUR way. We have done this for years. For some unknown reason I still get a kick out of it….and I still get surprised when I go into a guest bathroom… sometimes days after she has left and find my toilet paper all WRONG….I have to laugh.
I read in Dear Abby or Heloise this week an article confronting this very issue. So can there be a right or wrong? If so who decides?
Last week we were at the beach with family and I made this picture
Have you ever really looked at your toes? I mean like really looked closely at each one independent of the others. From the front they can look one way…but if you carefully look at one at a time…they often have a unique shape. A shape you do not notice just looking down at them.
I told you….I think out of the box…..
Now for a really long time I have wondered who says so….about certain things…..
Like a package of ketchup. Who decided that amount should be and would be the amount of ketchup served for all these years? The same with the salt and pepper packages. I personally never thought the salt packages were big enough…which meant you had to open more ketchup packages that are already to small to make the fries flavorful enough. Of course if you have McDonald’s fries…you don’t need salt or ketchup….they are perfect when they are HOT!
Then I had a discussion just the other day with my son about rubber bands. You used to get a rubber band around a newspaper…matter of fact we had so many rubber bands he literally started a rubber band ball when he was younger…which got a pretty good size. Now I have to buy a package of rubber bands to keep some around the house. Who decided to do away with the bands around the newspaper?
I am getting more of these hard square ties that I don’t really have another use for. What happened to all those twist ties….I hardly get those anymore….you used to get a lot when you bought a box of trash bags….then it went to draw strings and flaps. I will have to say that was a good idea…but I miss the extra ties I kept in the drawer.
What about a candy bar….
The regular sized candy bar is usually a good size. Sometimes I pick out a different kind and it looks like it was shrunk in one of those shrinky dink machines.
I do get amazed at how many sizes and shapes they make now to appeal to every need. A candy bar used to be a candy bar size…and penny candy was just that….a penny and was penny candy size. Now for some reason we pay a lot more for the smaller cuter candy….especially if it wrapped in the holiday colors. And really….does anyone ever eat only one of those? I think I like seeing one regular candy bar wrapper in front of me, than five or six of the smaller ones….that really makes me feel like a pig.
Last but certainly not least….as I am forever having a list of things like this run through my head at any given time….who decided that we all wanted canned cokes?
Yes, you can still buy coke in a glass bottle….but you will not get it out of a vending machine in front of a gas station. When you can find them in the grocery store, you will pay a pretty penny for them, especially the small ones…for some reason they always tasted better.
Alright maybe one more…..speaking of gas stations…..who decided to start being gas stations and stop being service stations?
One day I was pumping gas. The station provided someone to wash your windshield for customer appreciation that day. My granddaughter Layla was with me and she kept asking me….who is that man? What is he doing?
Once again the wheels were turning in my head about….who made that decision to stop checking the oil and washing the windshields and providing free water and air for the customer to use? Wow…and remember the free things they gave away with a tank of gas? Oddly enough you got service…a smile and a gift and hardly paid anything for a gallon of gas. Now we have to take out a small loan to fill up the tank and put it in ourselves. If you need air for a tire….you better hope you have a pocket full of quarters to feed the machine.
I know things change…and money is usually the bottom line of why things change….but sometimes I just wonder who got the final say.
Well… that is all for now…I was just thinking.
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