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Things That Baffle Me
Jan. 27th, 2008 09:44 am1. Three Starbuck's within a 1/4 mile radius. Now, possibly it's that I'm not a coffee drinker. But..... why? Are there THAT many people that buy a $4 coffee THAT often? And it's not like its an area where you're concerned about walking distance, either.
2. The weird need committees have for acronyms - even bad ones. One local city has put together a plan for downtown development called "Bringing It All Together" - or BAIT. ?!?!?? Hmmmm, apparently none of us is as dumb as all of us.
3. Bratz Dolls. Why would you buy your child a Junior Hooker doll? Even if SHE thinks it's cool (or has been told by her little friends that it is, anyway). Worse, if you let your child dress like the doll. But I've gone on at length on this topic before. It still makes me boggle.
4. Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee. I watch Food Network when I want to improve my cooking skills. Not to watch some bubbly little ingenue show me how to make commercial convenience foods vaguely palatable. Bleh. Mario, oh Mario, wherefore art thou? (Yes, I know all about his tiff with FoodTV).
5. The percentage of space most local fabric stores devote to fleece - and the accompanying "No-sew" projects sheets. If you can't sew, why would you be in a fabric store? I remember back when you could routinely find things like silk charmeuse at JoAnn's. In lots of colors. And real wool. Now, 1/2 the store is fleece, the other half is quilting cotton - with everything else squished into a small area of floorspace and 90% of that is polyester. I have nothing against quilting - though if that's what I have in mind, I usually hit a quilting store where the fabric quality and selection are better. But this is starting to make me nuts. I suppose it couples with the atrophy of "home ec" classes in schools, and with the loss of this basic school for most people. Even in my day, there was only 1 or maybe two semesters taught, which went from sewing straight lines down notebook paper to making a simple skirt. *yawn*
2. The weird need committees have for acronyms - even bad ones. One local city has put together a plan for downtown development called "Bringing It All Together" - or BAIT. ?!?!?? Hmmmm, apparently none of us is as dumb as all of us.
3. Bratz Dolls. Why would you buy your child a Junior Hooker doll? Even if SHE thinks it's cool (or has been told by her little friends that it is, anyway). Worse, if you let your child dress like the doll. But I've gone on at length on this topic before. It still makes me boggle.
4. Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee. I watch Food Network when I want to improve my cooking skills. Not to watch some bubbly little ingenue show me how to make commercial convenience foods vaguely palatable. Bleh. Mario, oh Mario, wherefore art thou? (Yes, I know all about his tiff with FoodTV).
5. The percentage of space most local fabric stores devote to fleece - and the accompanying "No-sew" projects sheets. If you can't sew, why would you be in a fabric store? I remember back when you could routinely find things like silk charmeuse at JoAnn's. In lots of colors. And real wool. Now, 1/2 the store is fleece, the other half is quilting cotton - with everything else squished into a small area of floorspace and 90% of that is polyester. I have nothing against quilting - though if that's what I have in mind, I usually hit a quilting store where the fabric quality and selection are better. But this is starting to make me nuts. I suppose it couples with the atrophy of "home ec" classes in schools, and with the loss of this basic school for most people. Even in my day, there was only 1 or maybe two semesters taught, which went from sewing straight lines down notebook paper to making a simple skirt. *yawn*
