Young Boomer Observations

A while back a town close to where I grew up was deemed by some organization to have the best tasting water in the world.  Why is it that when we talk about great tasting water what we really mean is no taste at all? If the water HAS a taste then it’s NOT good tasting water.  Kind of the same with fresh air.  What we really mean is air that has no smell.  That’s what we really want.

Perhaps the most perplexing, though, was “speed control”.  Boy, am I heartened to learn that the car will not randomly select a speed at its whim.  I wonder how much it would knock off the price of the car to bypass on the speed control option??  Not that I am a control freak or anything but I do feel a need to have some oversight regarding the speed at which I am hurtling down the road so I think I’d pay for that feature!

It seems lately that I have been coming across towns with rather similar names in California.  Most recently I’ve heard a good deal about people living in Glendora and also people living in Glendale.  Are those two towns close to each other?  I still don’t know but they should be!  In my head I always put similarly named towns close to each other.  I think towns should be arranged in alphabetical order!!

Then I see the restroom and walk in and all the sudden it’s like I can’t hardly get to the toilet fast enough before I pee my pants.  10 seconds before it wasn’t that big of a deal.  Do the toilet makers secretly plant pee magnets in the toilets?

It seems that words like “Great!” and “Amazing!” and “Awesome” are SOOOOO overused.  I sent a rather mundane email to a co-worker about a minor task being completed and received a note back that said “Amazing! Thanks for the update!”  Really?  Amazing? Maybe I should be insulted that this person thought it amazing that I completed a simple task.  I bet that person would faint from exhilaration if I also mentioned I bought a new pair of socks this weekend, though.

Wouldn’t it be fun to watch historical movies with the actual subjects of the show like Hitler or Ivan the Terrible or Martin Luther etc. and have them comment throughout?   Like “that totally never happened” or “Yeah, Himmler was really a jerk!”   Although none could probably compare to watching one with Jesus.  “Hey, I didn’t have a beard.  Why do they always have me with a beard?”  Or “Why don’t they have James the Lesser in any of these movies. He was the coolest disciple and always had the best jokes………..he sure hated being called ‘The Lesser’, though!”

As a food marketer I should probably know this but I wonder if fast food chains make those big promotional posters in their windows translucent on purpose so you can also see the offers from inside the restaurant (albeit backwards, of course).  If not then they really should - it seems smart.

I wonder how centrifugal force was discovered.  Maybe someone riding their horse around a corner too sharply and wondered why they fell off?  Maybe someone was swinging a tree branch around and wondering why it tugged on their arm?  Doesn’t it make you wonder if there were some geniuses before recorded history that would have dwarfed Einstein and Newton if we had only known.....

The average adult human body has about 60,000 miles of blood vessels.  That’s about 3 times around the earth at the equator!  How is that even possible?!?  And how did they measure that???

...........and best I remember they were about $.40/minute around 1975.  That’s about $2.00 per minute in today’s money.  I’m glad I didn’t have out of town friends!

I was in the grocery store and saw a Sara Lee apple pie that was made “with Orchard Picked Apples.” So, am I to assume that apples picked from an orchard of apple trees are better apples than those picked from a tree that might be out standing by itself somewhere?  Why is that?  When apples are grown in close proximity do they push each other to greatness or something? Like, “Boy, look at the apples on that tree over there.  I’d better get developing some yummy sweet goodness right away!”

Really quite amazing.

If you hear sometime soon that I’m in the hospital please ask the doctors to consider doing a scan of what’s in my stomach.

At the very least no one can tell me I’m full of sh*t.  I can get confirmation from several medical personnel present that is certainly NOT the case!

I’m just kidding.  I know that cake is really a compound of the elements Sugar (Su), Flour (Fl), Yeast (Ye), Frosting (Fs) and Water (Wa). Gee, do you think I’m stupid or something???