- how the big beer manufacturers rarely mention the flavor of their product. Yes, I know the purpose of advertising is supposed to make you think of the product when you go shopping, but the decline in sales of the three big brewers in favor of craft brewers ought to tell you something.
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- pickup trucks with snow plow adapters - not common in our part of Georgia, but nearly every pickup in NH has one, whether or not they even have a plow or plow snow. Sort of a northern version of those off-road light bars you see on jacked-up pickups with chrome undercarriage parts
-electric cords poking out of the grill on cars - when it is -40° in the morning, motor oil turns as viscous as Karo and car engines just don't turn over fast enough to start. Savvy owners attach a tank heater to the radiator hose and plug it in at night.
-how delivery pizza is rarely really good, but we keep on ordering them anyway, apparently willing to forgo any semblance of flavor for the convenience of have someone else do the cooking and being able to eat in front of the TV.
-how the stop line for the light at GA211 and GA316 is too close the the intersection - it is so close that drivers turning right on red must nearly enter the highway to enable checking oncoming traffic.
-how Athens apparently figures it is appropriate to allow delivery vehicles to use handicap parking. There are signs on Clayton St explaining it. Another thing - most places exempt cars in the HC parking from paying for parking. Athens not only does not exempt them, they make you walk half a block to get a parking coupon then half a block back to put the coupon on your dashboard. So, by the time you leave your car to run your errand, you've already walked a block. So much for convenient HC parking.
-how a well marked fire department pickup truck was parked in the fire lane while the occupants were inside a grocery store. When I asked them about it, the response was that the lane was for fire trucks - I told them it was only for fires, not shopping. This was in Waldorf, MD back in the 90's.
-one coldish November day I went to my local fire station to vote. Sitting outside was a fire department diesel pickup, empty and idling. After I voted and left the building, that same truck was still there, empty and idling. The county was in the throes of the recession, laying people off, eliminating positions, cutting services, and yet, this unknown fireman thought it appropriate to leave his truck running while he was inside a building. Do you suppose he needed a warm truck when he came back out? Or had he once heard the inaccurate old saw that it's better to leave diesels idling that to shut them off? I sent the fire chief an e-mail on that one.
-how police tend to drive well over the speed limit - all the time. I set the cruise control at the posted speed limit and am often passed by police cars. From time to time, a little bit later, I'll pass the same cruiser parked inconspicuously trying to catch speeders. Is there something wrong with that picture?
-how much time people spend on the telephone. Everywhere you go you see people talking on their cell phones. I was in a store recently when a woman behind me said something. I turned around and she said something again, but she wasn't holding a phone. Turns out she had one of those things that lets you talk and listen hands free so she wouldn't have to stop talking to do something. How convenient.
-the difference in snow removal techniques between New Hampshire and Georgia. In NH, it's plowed up in high snow banks, in GA it is left to melt
- how on a really cold day in North Dakota, your boots squeak in the snow
-how some people can find fault with almost anything
- overheard in a line at the movies in Berlin, Germany, one of the most vibrant cities in the world, "I told you there is nothing to do here, look at the people waiting in line to see a movie."
- overheard in a line at the Base Exchange cashier at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, "Three more weeks on this damned rock and I get to go home to Iowa."
- the proliferation of sex stores across the Bible belt south. I know they exist up north, too, but you never see them the way you do here..
- the sale of alcoholic beverages on western carriers out of Saudi Arabia - as soon as the seatbelt lamps go out, the men hie off the the toilets and change into western attire. When the aircraft is out of Saudi airspace, the flight attendants immediately bring out the refreshment cart with those little bottles of happy water and those now nattily attired men order their favorite.
- fake fingernails that look like pieces of cardboard glued over real nails
-automobile advertising that has little or nothing to do with transportation
- chocolate-covered strawberries pop out of the minivan's front console
- touting the number of cup holders
- exclaiming that the car comes with chrome tailpipe extenders
- electronic gadgetry for the driver
- rear seat movies
- voice commands to operate unimportant functions
Aint is just amazin' what things you can see in our world?
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