Why Do They Do The Things They Do?
A few days ago, I went to Safeway for dinner as I did not bring any with me to work. Man's gotta eat. Even a dieting man. The Safeway near my work seems to be a vortex. Now, there are several definitions of a vortex, but dictionary.com has two I would like to share: 5. something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it: the vortex of war. 6. (in Cartesian philosophy) a rapid rotatory movement of cosmic matter about a center, regarded as accounting for the origin or phenomena of bodies or systems of bodies in space. In the case of this Safeway, it is a vortex of Odd. My first instinct is to apply it to the word Stupidity, but that would just be rude to my fellow shoppers. The better word is Odd. So there I was, in line with my goods, in the process of mulling over which rag mag I was not intending to buy, when a lady got in line behind me. She had a total of 3 items, although I cannot recall exactly what the said items were. This being a 1...