A colleague in a country town in the UK says that his local over-the-fence newspaper invited readers to share with others the things they most often mused over.
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Here are a neat dozen of them:
Why do supermarkets that have pharmacies make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions, while healthy people buy their cigarettes at the front?
Why do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a Diet Coke?
Why do banks leave vault doors open in the view of customers, but chain pens for those customers’ use to the counters?
Why do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in our driveways, and fill our garages with junk?
Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?
Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?
Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'?
Why are so many store-bought lemon juices made with artificial flavouring, while washing-up liquid is made with real lemons?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why in the United States do they sterilise the needles to be used for lethal injections of prisoners on Death Row?
And what we thought was the best of all: Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic, called rush hour?
So that begs the question: What are your questions?
