Logical Thinkers Wanted

The second night I was home from the hospital after having Marley, my loving and wonderful brother, (you know him as Tugboatcap'n) went to KFC to get us some chicken for supper. Wanting us to be able to enjoy some ice cold refreshment with our meal, he asked for a gallon of iced tea. The cashier replied that it only comes in half-gallons. He responded--"Then give me two of them. A gallon is a gallon if it comes in eye-droppers."

In much the same manner, my husband recently ordered a value meal at Burger King (this makes it seem like we eat an awful lot of fast-food, doesn't it), only to be told that they did not have that value meal anymore. Wait a second. They still sell the sandwiches, french fries and drinks. If you don't have the particular value meal, just give me a value meal kit please.

At work the other day, a lady who taught grade-school for something like a million years asked me to fax something for her. As I went to run it through the fax machine she said, "Do I need to make a copy of it first? What happens to the original when you fax something?" I bit my tongue. What I wanted to say was, "The real trick to faxing something is folding it up tiny enough to fit through the phone wires."

How about this? My best friend from college described to me how horrible taking her infant son anywhere in the car had become. When I asked her why he didn't like riding in the car she responded that he wasn't a year old yet and so she had yet to turn his seat around facing front. The child was eleven and a half months old. He weighed close to 30 pounds. Yet she insisted that there was something magical about the day he would turn 1 and then suddenly be different physically so as to be safe in a forward facing car seat. (By the way, car seat frustration is another post altogether).

Same with drug companies who advertise that people under the age of 18 shouldn't take a particular drug. So the day before you are 18 you can't, but the day after, you can?

Watching a Discovery Channel special on The DaVinci Code, the host described the Holy Grail as a jewel encrusted goblet. If we believe that it belonged to Jesus, how are we expecting it to be anything more than a plain cup? Newsflash! Jesus was poor. Later, while holding a simple cup believed by some to be the actual cup of Christ, he stated his doubts of its authenticity because he didn't "feel anything" as he held it.

Logic. Problem solving. Disappearing from the human race.