things I don’t understand, part 7
Appetizers for cats.
Civil war reenacting.
Life insurance for babies. (The point of life insurance is to replace lost income. Unless your child stars on “Toddlers and Tiaras,” they are not adding to your bottom line. And if they are on that show, your life choices alone constitute an entire “things I don’t understand” list.)
Why it takes scissors and a paring knife to open DVD packaging. I thought DVDs were indestructible. Can’t we just put them in cardboard sleeves and call it good?
Taxidermy.
Why there must be pop music playing in every public space.
The question, “Cold enough for you?”
Voluntarily listening to the “Delilah” radio show.
Owning a pit bull.
Not writing thank you notes for wedding gifts. It takes 90 seconds per note! Write one or you don’t get a baby gift from me.
Why Marc Summers, host of the Food Network show “Unwrapped,” pauses for dramatic effect three words before the end……………….of every sentence.
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Ditto on Civil War reenacting, Delilah, and owning a pit bull. and hoping my pit-bull activist cousin doesn’t read Write About Now.
Besides the pit bull one (I love pit bulls!) I’m 100% with you. So I guess I’m 91% with you
I’ll take 91% agreement in ANYthing
I didn’t understand life insurance for babies until it was pointed out that such policies can be used for funeral costs should the unthinkable happen. And, as any good insurance salesperson will tell you, whole life insurance builds value that can be cashed in after “x” years for college or whatever. I’m not a good insurance salesperson – I just happen to know a couple
See folks, you don’t just get my random opinions on this blog, you get educational facts, too! (You still should not have anything to do with Toddlers and Tiaras. Just saying.)
Marc Summers isn’t alone in this irritating habit – Alton Brown from Iron Chef is the same way, maybe it’s a food network thing? Of course, we could say that Obama has this tendency too. OR we could just skip that last part.
Too funny…and I totally agree with most of it – especially the ‘thank you notes’ one. I have to disagree with the pitbull one though. My pitt is a sweetheart and is much better behaved than any other dog I’ve had (but that might just be a reflection on me). Dogs are like people, there are good ones and bad ones…the class, race or breed doesn’t determine that.
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whoa. pitties can be awesome dogs. for shame that you exclude them based on breed.
meet a sweet pit bull and you will wonder why people hate them.
anyway.
don’t even start me on Delilah. vomit.
and if you don’t write me a thank you note, ESPECIALLY after a wedding gift, i pretty much write you out of my life. that seems extreme, but so was the price of your wedding gift.