You can't ever get what you don't want

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m at work today. Coworker wandered by with some bags of groceries (treats I think, but I wasn’t feeling nosy). She held them up to someone else and said, “I couldn’t find what I wanted.”

I became puzzled. If she couldn’t find what she wanted, then what was in the bags? Stuff that she didn’t want? In which case, why did she buy the stuff? And since she did buy the stuff, wouldn’t that mean that she really DID want it?

So now I’m all locked up wondering at what point something you don’t want becomes something that you do want, at least enough to buy it.

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I don’t want taxes, but I pay those. Does that mean I do want them?:confused:

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I went for some bread and milk. I came back with a badger and a box of wheels.

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For some, shopping is a disorder. They feel they MUST buy something since they went all the way to the store in the first place. My husband is like that sometimes. If we are at the store and I say, “is there anything else we need?” He will literally go nuts trying to figure out one more thing that we simply must have.

Alternatively, she might have meant that she wanted to get one thing, but settled for another. I didn’t want the canned coconut shreds (I can taste the metal from the can), but I got those because the store didn’t have the bagged shreds and I wasn’t going to waste a quarter’s worth of gas going to another store to find them. Not like I would be eating the coconut cream pie anyway :smiley:

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You’ll call it the Lobsang XM-5, but everyone will know it’s a badger-engineered Ford.

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My dad had a saying: ‘It ain’t what you want, but what you get that makes you fat.’

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If you don’t get the things you want, just think about the things that you DON’T get that you DON’T want. :smiley:

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She couldn’t find specifically what she had gone to get, but she did see some other stuff that was worth buying.

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When I read the title, I thought to myself:

“You can’t always get what you don’t want . . . but sometimes, you get what you don’t need.”

As I recall, it was stated by a famous philosopher–one Mick Jagger.
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. . . a very wise man, that Mr. Jagger.

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Someone once very kindly pointed out to me that my nice pretty Jaguar S-type was a rebadged Ford. Where I come from Fords are common as muck. I wasn’t pleased.

(Ford Lincoln Continental to be precise - so at least it was a rebadge of an American Ford which is better than a rebadged international ford, such as a sierra, cortina, escort, fiesta - all the worst cars ever)

One only has to watch Top Gear religiously to know that almost every car is a re-badged something-else with a few alterations.

Are there any original cars?

And as you might have guessed -my unintentional shopping items weren’t designed to lead this on a tangent about cars dressed as other cars :smiley: