People amaze me. Two examples:
We bought a Christmas tree a couple of days ago. One of those nice, big, expensive trees that should last us many a year to come. Only, when we went to put it up last night we realized that we didn’t get what we paid for. Someone had bought the big expensive tree, took it home, swapped it out with their small, USED tree, and then took the new box with their old tree back to walmart. Naturally, walmart accepted it without checking and put it right back on the shelf for sale, where guess who got it… yeah. Opening the box and taking out a small, used tree (with some broken ornaments still on it) just pissed me off. What kind of imbecile would steal a Christmas tree? And the people at walmart weren’t even surprised. They said it’s normal. Isn’t that a problem?? Anyway, by the time we figured all this out, every walmart around here is sold out of those trees. Figures.
The next example is less of a wow-you’re-stupid! and more of a wow-you-didn’t-know-that? Was just talking to a co-worker who is in the process of signing up with the very expensive "green" energy company around here. I wasn’t going to make fun of her, because to each their own, and all that, but I did comment that I went with whatever was cheapest since it’s the same energy as anyone else gets. Her response was sort of a "really? You think that’s how it works?" Now, I understand that the general populace may not understand the inner workings of our nation’s power grid, but I would expect the common person to realize that buying energy from a different company than your neighbor does not mean they’re going to run special lines directly to your house. I would think it would be obvious to the casual observer that dispite the fact that there are over 20 energy companies in houston, there are not 20 sets of power lines fed into each neighborhood around here. Then again, my definition of obvious differs greatly from most people’s, I guess.
Ok, back to work. I’ll post music answers after more people have had a chance to read them.