You know the Geico commercial. Somebody acts a little surprised when they read or hear, “15 minutes could save you 15 percent or more on car insurance.”
Somebody else responds, “Everybody knows that.”
I’m kinda like the first person. I stumble across little factoids or deep imponderables and soon as I share them I wait for somebody to say, Duh, no kidding.
I know I’m not the first person to wonder about Superman. Bullets bounce off his chest, so why does he duck when a gun is thrown at his head?
Other questions have been asked by deep thinkers but they’re new to me.
Maybe everyone knows about saving 15 percent on car insurance but does everybody wonder why Japanese kamikaze pilots wore helmets?
Maybe everyone knows about saving 15 percent but does everyone know why people say about finding things, “It’s always the last play you look.” Uh, no kidding. Why keep looking if you’ve already found it?
Of course, I know people who have found their keys and while holding them in their hand, have looked for them in a couple more places.
“Fifteen minutes can save you fifteen percent” is now a common phrase but some people get testy about common phrases.
“New and improved” irks some. It’s either new or improved. If it’s new, it hasn’t existed, therefore, it can’t be improved. Of course, most of us aren’t such sticklers, we get it. Though sometimes new and improved isn’t either one. There is the story about how Tampax Tampons called itself “improved” by putting fewer tampons in a box. This resulted in a drop in sales. So what did Tampax do? They went back to the original quantity and called it “new and improved.”
Other questions that seem to stump much of mankind involves regular human behavior. Why do people get up to search the entire room or houses for the TV remote? They can’t find the energy or the willingness to walk to the TV to change the channel manually but will tear apart a place looking for that damn remote. Of course, most people couldn’t figure out how to change the channel manually (me!) so they’ve gotta tear down the house looking.
My guess is that it’s mostly a man thing. They need the remote. And they need it bad. Women will look for it a little, then shrug and watch whatever is on. In defense of the remote-needy men, they are usually looking desperately for the remote because the TV is turned to one of those god-awful Housewives shows. It’s like they have to find the remote before their head explodes or they throw the TV out the window.
Remote addiction isn’t limited to having the device in hand. Those same remote fanatics will press buttons as hard as they can when the batteries are dead. As if pressing will bring the batteries back to life. Remotes can cruel, though. Sometimes the lights flicker giving the remote junkie hope.
But I digress…
The remote is just one thing I’ve found that people struggle with. Deep thinkers want to know:
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
If a cow laughed, would milk come out of her nose?
I hope these questions don’t keep you up at night but I do wonder…. If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?
Now I know why you and Pete have teamed up!
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