Things I Don't Understand

There are some things I just don't understand. Like why fast food restaurants give you soooooo many napkins in your drive through bag when your only ordered one chicken sandwich. Are they simply anticipating that you will find some way to mess up eating the sandwich and get the lettuce everywhere? Or do the people at the drive through play some sort of game where they listen to the person order and then try and guess how messy and uncoordinated they are by their voice and try to accommodate their sanitary needs? Or on the napkin note, why is it that when you ask for a bunch of ketchups with your food you only end up with two lil' squeeze packets? Are they aware of how little condiment actually is contained in one of those plastic packets? It takes eight of them to equal just one squirt of ketchup from a bottle. And don't even get me started on pickles...

Another thing I don't understand is why there are no more "walk" signals in crosswalks, only "WARNING! THE GREEN LIGHT YOU SEE NOW WILL ONLY LAST 20 MORE SECONDS! ...19! ...18! ...17! ... Don't get me wrong, the counting down of seconds is way helpful when you're driving so you can tell if you can get through the yellow light or if you need to start slowing down for an impending red. But since when do walkers not get to see the comforting white lights of the happy man strutting across the street. Now all you get is a blinking orange hand for the entire duration of any green light.

And how about when you see an ad on TV or hear it on the radio and it describes some great thing that you actually need or will need in the future and they tack on the adjective "affordable!" Stop. If they need to convince you it's affordable it's really not. Why do they do this, it's annoying. Yes, I know it's all about marketing, but when was the last time that someone said a product was affordable and the price including all other fees, shipping, and tax was?

Thoughts for today people, thoughts for today.

Thanks for reading!