posted 03-04-2002 02:32 PM         

Can a pizza arrive at your house faster than an ambulance.

Do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back counter to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can buy their cigarettes at the front.

Do people order double cheesburgers, large fries and a diet coke.

Do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

Do we leave our cars worth thousands in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

Do we use answering machines to screen our calls, then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

Do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

Do we use the world politics to describe the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning blood-sucking creatures".