Weird observations

[Jenny_Jackson]

Yes, that's right everyone sees weird shit everyday that raises unanswerable questions. What have you seen today? I'll start.

Why do people take their dogs to PETSMART to buy dog food? This pooch picking out his own?

 

[driphoney]

Why do people who drive cool cars (BMW M3's, Corvettes, etc.) always pull out in the intersection like grandpa in a '73 Lincoln?

I don't get it.

 

[_Lynn_]

Why do people who drive cool cars (BMW M3's, Corvettes, etc.) always pull out in the intersection like grandpa in a '73 Lincoln?

I don't get it.

Not everyone driving a cool car always does that.

 

[JackLuis]

Why do people who drive cool cars (BMW M3's, Corvettes, etc.) always pull out in the intersection like grandpa in a '73 Lincoln?

I don't get it.

Unlike Grampa, they ain't got gas.

 

[Katyusha]

How is it that there are people who don't understand that both cats and dogs are hunters?

 

[Katyusha]

Yes, that's right everyone sees weird shit everyday that raises unanswerable questions. What have you seen today? I'll start.

Why do people take their dogs to PETSMART to buy dog food? This pooch picking out his own?

He's spoiled. Of course he's picking out his own food. He'll sit and howl at the foot of your bed all night long if you get the wrong food.

 

[OnlyByMoonlight]

Okay I don't know if this is the same everywhere. In my Wal Mart they keep the toilet paper on the other side of the store from the toiletries, next to the paper towels and paper plates. Why??

 

[TE999]

Okay I don't know if this is the same everywhere. In my Wal Mart they keep the toilet paper on the other side of the store from the toiletries, next to the paper towels and paper plates. Why??

That is a clever ploy by Hell-Mart to send you wandering all over the store and seeing other things that you just have to have whether you need them or not.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Playing poker today, more than half of the hands played today had paired boards, more than half of those were on the flop.

 

[PublicAffection]

Why is it that the one day you decide to go into work to wrap up some stuff on your day off (and thus dress completely normally and not in "business" clothes)... is the one day that the owner of the company just happens to be strolling by your desk?

 

[Handley_Page]

Why do food suppliers state the obvious?
on a packet of nuts: "Warning; contains nuts" ?

 

[SlickTony]

That is a clever ploy by Hell-Mart to send you wandering all over the store and seeing other things that you just have to have whether you need them or not.

Heh! Albertsons tried that before they went belly-up...they used to be a good store; wonderful meat sales (I haven't been able to find affordable New York strip steaks since) and a muscular, well-developed cosmetics department...and then they did a renovation. Almost a year of walking on sticky underlayment and not being able to find anything, and then the renovation was finished, and...bleah.

It was like the store had been laid out by aliens from another planet who had no notion of the most common household usages. I asked one of the staff about it and was told that this had been done on purpose so that customers would come in and "walk the store," and perhaps buy things they hadn't planned on buying when they came in. IMO, what this accomplished more than anything else was to piss them off.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You go through life in a calm, meditative frame of mind and as you walk along you hear some of the weirdest pieces out of the middle of a conversation. You spend the rest of you life puzzling over just what it could have been about.

In grad school, I was walking up a long ramp from the parking lot to the upper campus. Coming toward me was chatty group of Middle Eastern students (place of origin unknown). As they passed by me one of the women, in a high state of excitement, told her friends, "And then she grab my husband and she smoosh him!"

If I live to be a thousand . . .

 

[O2]

Why, when I park at the far end of the lot at Home Depot, pulling though the space someone parks behind me or next to me when there are plenty of spaces away from me?

Why, when in the gym locker room I find a locker away from all others by at least five lockers but when I come back in someone has a lock on the one next to mine despite the fact that there are at least ten others in that row that are empty.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Heh! Albertsons tried that before they went belly-up...they used to be a good store; wonderful meat sales (I haven't been able to find affordable New York strip steaks since) and a muscular, well-developed cosmetics department...and then they did a renovation. Almost a year of walking on sticky underlayment and not being able to find anything, and then the renovation was finished, and...bleah.

It was like the store had been laid out by aliens from another planet who had no notion of the most common household usages. I asked one of the staff about it and was told that this had been done on purpose so that customers would come in and "walk the store," and perhaps buy things they hadn't planned on buying when they came in. IMO, what this accomplished more than anything else was to piss them off.

Oh I hated when Wal-Mart did the remodel (it only lasted about three months though.) They moved everything around, and even made some of the departments smaller. They took fabrics out completely and made the toy department smaller. I mean, sheesh. Small town. Only place to buy decent toys. Good grief. I had just gotten used to the new lay out and we moved. I have no clue about this store's layout. It's kind of similar to the old layout but some things aren't the same. Way confusing.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Oh, and I have an observation.

Kids have this inborn sense of when a parent is on the phone. They can have spent the past hour not bothering you at all, but the minute you get on the phone, they think of a million questions they have to ask right that minute. Never fails. I usually have to either go into the bathroom or my bedroom and shut the door to have a half-way private conversation and even then, they knock on the door.

 

[DeeZire]

Why is it that, by the time you gain knowledge through life experiences, you're too old to utilize it?

 

[mynameisben]

Why is it, year after year, a whopping 40% of all employee absenteeism occurs on Mondays and Fridays?

 

[ole_grouch_1124]

Oh, and I have an observation.

Kids have this inborn sense of when a parent is on the phone. They can have spent the past hour not bothering you at all, but the minute you get on the phone, they think of a million questions they have to ask right that minute. Never fails. I usually have to either go into the bathroom or my bedroom and shut the door to have a half-way private conversation and even then, they knock on the door.

Which is why, in my next life, I want to be a male grizzly bear:

1. You get to sleep all winter
2. You wake up only for food and sex
3. If the kids annoy you, you can eat them!

 

[VeritasMaximus]

Why do people speed up to pass another car on a street that is less than 100 feet long?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Why do people speed up to pass another car on a street that is less than 100 feet long?

To eliminate the possibility of being stuck behind them for the 20 miles that follow on the next road.

 

[glynndah]

The local WalMart has also "remodeled". Before the store was laid out in orderly rows, in some sort of cohesive pattern. Now, it's a series of claustrophobic boxes or something with no rhyme or reason. I'm pretty sure if viewed from above, the shoppers bear more than a passing resemblance to rats in a maze.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Why do people assume they know you because they read your stories?

 

[TxRad]

Why do people assume they know you because they read your stories?

Because they all think the stories are all true and there will always be a sequel.

 

[TE999]

Why do people dawdle in their cars instead of backing out when they see you're waiting for their parking space? Arrrghhhhh!