Mysteries of the World

Water's free, right?

I mean, let's say you go to any restaurant- fast food or sit down - and all you order is a glass of water. Your bill, assuming you didn't get a bottled water should be $0.00.

Right now you're saying to yourself. Ok, yeah Kevin, what the point?

Well, I'll tell you.

Let's say you walk into McDonalds and order a #1 ; which everyone knows is the Big Mac meal (pictured above). With this meal you receive the sandwich, the fries, and a cup; it's all included in the price.

It doesn't matter what you put in that cup, the price of the meal is the same. Which means if you put water in the cup, that's right, you are paying for the water!

So if you are trying to cut soda out of your diet, like I am. You have to stay away from value meals. Because I'll tell you what, if I order one, I can't just put water in my cup. I paid for that drink and there's no way a free liquid is going in there. I get soda in spite, and that's not the way to handle anything really.

While I'm on the subject of food and restaurants here's another one for ya.

Let's say you're at Qdoba now. You love the nachos (pictured below), like I do, but you don't think they put enough cheese on them, or maybe you don't think they put enough chicken on them, so you ask for extra.


Guess what? That costs extra.

You're probably saying to yourself, of course it costs extra, you're getting extra stuff.

But here's the problem: it doesn't work the other way!

Let me explain.

You order those very same nachos but this time, you want no beans. Well, beans are included in the price of the nachos, are they not? Don't you think if you request no beans, the price should go down?

It most certainly does not though.

You are saving Qdoba the ingredients and time of putting them in there but putting the exact same amount of money in their register. It just doesn't make sense.

If extra costs more, less should cost less. That's my opinion.

And these my friends are two mysteries of the world.

Odds and Ends

As I sit here on my couch watching the Rams actually looking like a good football team against the Cowboys I guess I'll write some random thoughts down.

-Amazing how some coaches of professional athletes are so fat when they are in charge of telling some of the most in-shape men in the world what to do. A little ironic, don't you think?

-Last night, one of the most exciting moments since becoming a Blues season ticket holder in 2006 happened at the Scottrade Center. Down by 2 goals to the Blackhawks in the 3rd period Keith Tkachuk scored with 10 minutes left making the score to 3-2. Then, with only 13 seconds left, with Manny Legace (goalie) on the bench for the extra attacker, Andy McDonald tied the game to force overtime.

Although the Blues had plenty of chances to win in overtime, they could not find the back of the net. But in the shootout Brad Boyes and rookie TJ Oshie, scored to finsh of the dramatic comeback. Awesome.

-Speeding and parking tickets are such as waste of money. Ugh! Nothing is more frustrating than working just to throw the paycheck away.

-A good friend of mine recently witnessed something so bizarre at work I have to share it with you. Last week, during a routine trip to the ladies room, she noticed an unusual scene taking place in the handicapped stall.

Through the crack between the door and wall panel, she saw another woman co-worker sitting on the floor reading a book. That's right. Reading, on the floor, in the ladies room. Weird!

-The thumb is healing rather well. It's a good thing the body can fix itself. Imagine if injuries were permanent. There'd be a lot of disfigured and incapacitated people out there.

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Time to grab some lunch. Until next time....

One of Those Moments...

So I'm sitting here on my couch at 7 o'clock on a Wednesday evening just wasting the night basically when, on the television, the lotto drawing is about to happen. I'm aware the drawings occur, obviously, but rarely do I catch them live. I'm typically just not on the channel they occur at this time. I don't even really play.

But that's not the point. The point is as soon as I saw they were going to draw the Pick 3 I said, out loud, 4-6-3. And sure enough, I watch the drawing and those exact numbers appear in that order!

I'm not trying to say I "knew" they were going to be chosen. All I'm saying is I am positive those numbers popped into my head seconds before I saw them picked. It's just one of those weird moments in life that make you think you might have some sort of untapped mental power just waiting to be unleashed.

Of course I don't believe in anything like that and I'm sure it was just a lucky guess.
Nevertheless it caused my mouth to drop and immediately wished someone would have been around to witness it.

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In other news, as you probably know if you're reading this, I suffered an injury last Friday playing softball. A hard hit line drive by a guy in softball took a bad hop on me and struck my right thumb, right on the top. Some separation occurred between the nail and the finger and also the fingertip was sliced open a little bit.

The only reason I bring it up is because it got me thinking about life and how random and unpredictable accidents are. When I left the house that night, never in my wildest dreams could I have predicted I'd be in the Emergency Room that night due to a freak finger accident. I hadn't been hurt in a long time before that.

Just goes to show you never know when things will happen that throw life off. One second you can be totally happy and feel like nothing will ever happen to you. Then a softball hits your thumb just the right way and you realize just how random life can be.

I guess the only thing that is certain is that these unpredictable things will happen. It's only a matter of time.

Oh well, you just roll with the changes as REO Speedwagon might say.