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28Jan/103

Practical Joke or Practically Delicious?

I'm the first one to help myself to a sausage, and usually I don't eat with my eyes so how it looks isn't as important to me as how it tastes. But I'm going to step away from that comment in this case and say that something about the looks of this just doesn't make me want to stick it on a bun and chow down.

22Jan/100

The Trifling Signage at Walmart

I first thought you had to be at least 18 years of age to be in this aisle because of the "Adult Cereal" label. Would a section label that reads "Cereal" not be enough here? Looking up and down the aisle I noticed that some category manager actually dove down to the minutiae of labeling "Adult Cereal", "Kid Cereal" and, wait for it.... "Family Cereal" sections! What if I'm looking for a box of Count Chocula? Would it be in the adult section because I'm biologically an adult, or in the kid section because it was marketed to kids, or in the family section because both adults and kids like it? I can't figure this out because I didn't have my bowl of Wheaties this morning. I couldn't find what section it was in.

19Jan/100

Used Canucks Gear

Do you think they're selling anything else used besides hockey sticks?? That could be so gross.

15Jan/100

Seasonal Confusion

Passing by this display, I didn't know whether to buy one of the snow shovels and grab my winter coat, scarf and touque and get ready for snow or grab my sunscreen, a garden spade and a bag of fertilizer and plant some of these primulas for spring. It's January in Vancouver. Who knows what season that means it is.