A couple days ago a good friend of mine spent the better part of a day searching for some "common" items. I meaning today's world batteries and light ulbs are pretty common--right? Yet.. by the time he returned home his shopping safari could hardly be classified as a success.
Well this little rant of mine in support of my friend. Wise folks like George Carlin have already pointed out that usually hot doggs come in a package of ten and the buns come in a package of8 or 12. Why? no one seems to know. So why should we be shocked that most things that require AAA batteries require3 of them. Are they sold in multiples of 3? No they are sold in multiples of two so I guess you could buy 12 to have 4 replacement sets however, they are rarely on sale in multiples of three packages either you can often buy eight at a discount. So you get home replace the bad set with the three you need and then you have one left or five left and well if it's one the one goes in your junk drawer unless you keep a little box somewhere with the misfit batteries. Again, you have a functioning deviceso it doesn't bother you so much until the next time you go to see how many AAA batteries something takes and discover it takes three. You dig into the drawer and you are thrilled to find one and then assume there must be more. Of course there are no more So eventually you go to the store and find that buying for is your only option so you do that and put three in your device leaving two misfits. Now by the time three sets of these things wear out you have no idea how long the two in the drawer have been there and so you go buy four and put the third left over in the drawer. About a year later you go to replace the three AAA batteries again and confident you have the required number you race to the drawer and around through the duct tape, old keys a few adapter chords and find at last the third batter. You flip the switch and well nothing happens because that first battery you put in the drawer is now three years old and if you are a brand loyalist like many of us.--you have no idea which is the culprit. So off to the store you go again to start the spiral again.
Now my friend also spoke of searching for light bulbs. At last count around my apartment we have8 different types (wattage and etc). Edison and Tesla would have gone completely mad trying to invent this variety of bulbs and well some would argue that wouldn't have been a very long trip for either. Oh this is not to mention holiday lighting options which maybe we should adopt as a standard. I realize that there are different lighting needs for different situations however we have mercury lights, halcyon lights fluorescent lights conventional lights which I think are consent bulbs, solar driven, motion-censored, and that's not to mention the flashlights that require all different sizes of batteries....but we already went down the battery road.
I'm going to get to the peace and joy part pretty soon. I promise.
No two brands of shoes, jeans, shirts, or nearly any other clothing item marked the same size of the tag fit the same and here's the one that really kills me.
"Fun size"candy bars. Now these are little versions of my favorites. I want to meet the guy who decided to call this size of candy fun size. I would give him a fun size car to drive and a fun size paycheck send him to his fun size house etc. When he comes into my restaurant I would love to give him a fun sized 2.3 ounce steak and a oyster sized baked potato... now that would be fun.
Alright to the peace and joy. By now you have had to discover that one size never fits all and while society sort of expects things to conform00they simply do not. Which means you don't have have to either. I'm not saying that you don't have to fulfill a function but I am saying relax figure out what size works for you and what function you really want to be exceptional atat then be at peace with yourself and be joyful that day after day the outside world is trying to show the rest of us that one size doesn't fit all and packaging is not uniform or convenient. You have probably achieved your teenaged dream of wanting to be different just like everyone else.
So go out this week and the best you you can be and be confident yu have a huge advantage in being that since you aare the only one. Seek your best self but don't be concerned about what others think... if you don't fit our life we will just put you in the junk drawer for a while always hoping you will b the perfect solution someday... and maybe someday you will!
Have a great week.
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