Not every licensed driver owns a giant suv or truck. Must every parking garage ticket dispenser be placed so high? Same with drive thru ATMs. Hell, even my (former) employer placed the new security sensor way up high, so that some of us had to open the door and step halfway out.
You made a reference to Star Trek and then you said “boldly walk”
In a similar vein, i’m seeing a lot of adverts suggesting that people
buy lottery scratch cards as christmas gifts.
Well, it’s only ten feet from the door to my desk, so warp drive would be, to say the very least, overkill. LOL
If you’re buying gifts for <$5 a scratch off is better than most other options. At least the recipient has a few moments of excitement where they imagine winning a big prize.
Also, if someone is looking to spend $5 or $10 on a gift, there’s a good chance it’s for some sort of gift exchange and the recipient is someone the giver doesn’t know well.
I’ve been buying these for years as stocking stuffers for my kids and their spouses. It’s great fun for about 10 minutes, and somebody usually wins a few bucks.
But what about Halloween?
And obedience school graduation?
Or you’re reading through a thread and come up with a really hilarious snarky comment, only to discover as you continue reading that someone beat you to the punch about fifteen minutes earlier.
Heh. I had a great thing to post on this very thread, but as I was typing it, it started to sound familiar. I searched and, yes, I had posted the same thing a couple of weeks ago.
What’s even more embarrassing is when you post after only having skimmed the thread, and you are sure anyway that no one else would come up with your brilliant zinger, only to get the reply “You’ve been ninja’d 30 posts ago”.
I just remembered what I wanted to post earlier. I am so tired of turning to the paper towel dispenser in the rest room at work and seeing that the push bar is wet. I realize that your hands are wet from washing, that’s the whole reason for needing the towel. But can’t you push the press bar with your elbow? Or at least wipe the water off the bar after drying your hands? Sheesh.
When I post a funny on Facebook and get a string of laughing emojis and then that one asshole comes along with a thumbs up. Fuck you, friend!
I love watching farming shows and the “Gentle Giants” draft horse show. However, these programs are now infested with trumpy merchandise commercials. I have to switch channels to avoid seeing trumpy coins, guns, and stuffed animals. And hope that my mere watching of the agricultural shows doesn’t cause there to be more commercials like this. I don’t know how ratings work these days.
When a grocery store just rearranges everything. Sure they may have new products or are getting rid of a product.
But I swear, sometimes they move stuff from one side of an aisle to the other side. I think this is to encourage impulse purchases.
What does infuriate me is they did it during the height of covid. My store only let 10 people in at a time. So the rest of us formed a line outside while the wandering shoppers are trying to find their product that has mysteriously moved.
You are partially correct. There are several reasons, and one is to make things easier for the customer. Really.
But also, if they note customers are so used to a store they skip most of the aisles, yeah, I have heard they move things around for that.
None of the companies I (or my father) worked for have done this.
Could it be happening somewhere, by some idiot? Sure. Some idiot who got the idea from clueless people complaining about not being able to find the kippered herring after a perfectly routine reset that moved kippered snacks to the bottom shelf because only a few people bought it any more.
Meanwhile my bonus is impacted by responses on customer surveys to the item “Products are easy to find.”
I know this is hard to believe, but we actually realize that pissing off our customers is bad for business. We piss them off because it’s hard to make everyone happy. You know different people want different things. Trying to keep all those different things in stock means you end up with 30,000 different things. Which might make it hard to find one or two of the things you only buy a few times a year.
Primary reason- really. That doesnt mean there arent other reason, of course.
People who use “I” when they should be using “me”.
People who use “whom” when they should be using “who”.
My rule is unless you’re a professional editor, don’t use “whom”, because 95% of the time you’re going to get it wrong.
The NYT used to run a proofreading quiz with actual errors from the paper that got past the copy editors. Who/whom was one of the errors that kept popping up.