Ah, what a curious day this has been thus far.....a cavalcade of vignettes that are etched in my mind.
As I drove past a sign for a new business, the wording on the billboard seemed so obviously trite.....like the ads I used to see in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan many moons ago as we would drive from one state to the next. "Stay here. Clean rooms with tv." What do you think they'd say, "Slightly dirty rooms with tv"? No need to state the obvious. Or, for instance, a financial lending business that advertises itself as "quick and affordable". Did we expect "slow and costly"?
Reading the paper, seeing pictures of little girls, no more than four to six years of age, full-out make up on, competing in a 'beauty pageant'. Why?????
Missed opportunities for effective communication......just because someone desires to work as little as possible......and then wonders why no participants know what to do, where to go, etc.
An elderly woman shopping with a younger man, perhaps a son, grandson or care giver......being verbally badgered so loudly and constantly, his voice carrying throughout the store, causing people to stare.
Misreading the contents of lettuce bags, buying enough for about twenty people instead of ten to twelve. Guess I'll be eating lots of salad over the next few days.
Being in a string of traffic when the car in front of you suddenly brakes hard.....and watching the car behind you, in the rear view mirror, struggle to stop in time to avoid hitting you.
Discovering the fine print (very fine print, I might add) on a health insurance 'explanation of benefits' (which in my case, being self-insured, is an oxymoron) and discovering that the insurance company is unable to process the claim because of who-knows-what? Any excuse is a good excuse to have a claim denied when you are self-insured. Pardon my cynicism here but the Great Illusionist and his cronies did nothing for the already self-insured.
It is time to shut down the movie projector in my brain. The feature-film is about to begin.
Ancora imparo
