One Stop Gas and Booze

This morning as I stopped at the local Speedway for coffee, I saw a beer delivery truck parked outside and the driver drinking a coffee and reading the newspaper inside. This made me think.

Why is that every gas station that opens has a cooler full of beer for sale. I had thought the idea was to stop drinking and driving. You say the beer is to take home to drink. Then why does it have to be cold? One can cool their own beer at home. No.......the beer is cold for ready drinking.

Regarding the sale of tobacco, law now states that the tobacco needs to be separated from the rest of the items in the store, where those under 18 can not have ready access. This separates the tobacco from the consumer; easier to control the purchase.

If we put tobacco out of reach from the customer, why don't we put the booze out of reach of the driver. Let's now make it so convenient to buy gas and booze at the same time. My opinion is that I will suffer less bodily harm from a smoker that I will a boozing driver.

Let's put the booze and the tobacco in a separate store along with the lottery tickets. We could call it the SIN STORE. If then, you are not inclined to be religious, then we could call it the VICE STORE.

dang stupid!

What's this logistics thing?

Most days on my drive to and fro work, I drive by this trucking company's yard. All of the trucks have the logistics in the name. What is this? Why do we call it "Joe's Logistics" instead of Joe's Trucking.

The dictionary definition:

lo·gis·tics (lō-jĭs'tĭks, lə-) pronunciation
n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

1. The aspect of military operations that deals with the procurement, distribution, maintenance, and replacement of materiel and personnel.
2. The management of the details of an operation.

Looking a the two given definitions, I would hope it does not pertain to the first. As these are local business ventures, I would hope there are more the commercial type rather than military type.

So...let's look at the second definition. "The management of the details of an operation"

I for one do not give a hoot nor a dang about the management of the details of a trucking company. The only details I am concerned about are these; that they pickup my item for shipping and the deliver it to the location I am sending it, in a timely fashion.

It seems that there is a trend in the world that we name our business or service to more appropriately define what it is that we really do. Guess what? A trucking company is a trucking company, not a logistics company. It was properly named. Seems like there are too many over-educated people at the helm of these companies without enough to do.

What's next? Will we call the truck driver a logistics engineer? This surely will throw up some flags when logistics engineer is placed on an IRS tax form as an occupation.

Another example of this, is Consumers Power (now Energy). Seems using the word 'power' is not politically correct. So the company spends probably a million dollars of customer's money to change the name.

Dang Stupid!

Confused

Let's see if I understand
how the world works lately...

If a man cuts his finger off
while slicing salami at work,
he blames the restaurant.

If you smoke three packs a day for 40 years and die
of lung cancer,
your family blames the tobacco company.

If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving
home drunk, he blames the bartender.

If your grandchildren are brats without manners,
you blame television.

If your friend is shot by a deranged madman,
you blame the gun manufacturer.

And if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and
tries to kill the pilot at 35,000 feet, and the passengers kill him instead,
the mother of the crazed deceased blames the airline.

I must have lived too long to understand the world
as it is anymore.

So, if I die while my old, wrinkled bum is parked in
front of this computer,
I want all of you to blame Bill Gates...okay?


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This wants to erode my confidence in the education system. How many years of school to become a lawyer?

dang stupid!

Hang up the phone and Drive!

Yesterday on the way home from work, ran upon a vehicle with the bumper sticker that says, "Hang up the phone and Drive!". Wondering if the driver possibly was on a cell phone, I pulled up next to the vehicle. Inside was a grossly obese driver eating onion rings the size of a frisbee.

Dang Stupid!

Chicken Fried Chicken

A while back, we were at a restaurant. On the menu was "chicken fried chicken". What the hey is "chicken fried chicken"? Is this chicken fried by a chicken? Also on the menu was "chicken fried steak". I can see this. A chicken getting revenge frying steak.

Dang Stupid!