December 05, 2004

Escaping the ordinary

There's this really weird phenomena surrounding certain new purchases, cars in particular: once you get them, everyone else has one too. One would assume it's all psychological --- that the purchaser just happens to be more tuned in to the item and notices them. One wonders if there isn't something more to it sometimes however...
Posted by abatie at 09:00 PM | Comments (0)

Patience!

Some people really have no sense of value, or assign a very low value to their own time: Dutch Bros. recently opened a new store on Monroe (the street that runs most conveniently along the edge of the OSU campus). For their opening, they gave away free drinks (worth, what, $2 or so?). And people were lined up all day for this. I don't know how long the wait actually was, but it had to be at least a half hour, probably more...
Posted by abatie at 08:52 PM | Comments (0)