Selliant Thoughts

 

Getting up early gives me time to examine random thoughts with a clarity that they don't really warrant.

This morning I had to get up early because Mom had not exercised since she left here over a week ago. She agreed that my nagging helped while she was here, but now that she was home she liked to lay in bed until she had to rush off to appointments or errands. So, of course, she didn't have time to exercise.

Thus my commitment to calling her at 7:00 AM to nag. Afterward I was wide awake, and had no intention of exercising at that hour of the day. To calm my caffeinated brain, I started paging though a gadetlog.

You know what I mean. Those catalogs that sell everything from 4 inch digital TV screens to odd exercise equipment to magnetic toe rings and bracelets. Not much to make fun of there, but here are some products that puzzled me.

A remarkably accurate bathroom scale. Wouldn't it be better to have an inaccurate scale? When you weighed yourself in the morning, instead of being frustrated you could say, 'That scale is never right anyway.”

Also offered was a violin that cost less than a third the price of any other violin. By buying this, aren't you already admitting that whatever you play on it will sound awful?

One product encouraged you to throw out your 'crusty' old pots and pans and buy this new set for 29.99. I think that if someone has crusty pots and pans, they should give up cooking altogether.

I was tempted by the 'pound of wheat pennies' for 24.99 until I read the fine print- 120 pennies. Well I guess, like real estate, they aren't making anymore of them.

So my BS detector works pretty well in the early morning hours, which leaves me wondering what I have ordered from catalogs in the past that got me on this list.

Nancy Sherer

 

 


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