Observations

THINGS I HAVE WONDERED ABOUT
(only in my abundant spare time, of course)

Working Like a Dog

I wouldn't mind "working like a dog". In fact I've studied our dogs' work habits. One issue is that barking at squirrels probably pays even less than designing sound systems and there's no health insurance.

Natural Ingredients

I always buy food that is labeled as having "all natural ingredients". That way I don't have to worry about eating any supernatural ingredients. You don't want those. I've seen movies that indicate that ingesting supernatural ingredients could cause much worse problems than indigestion.

Waiting Rooms

If doctors make appointments, why do they need waiting rooms? If the appointment is working as it should, the waiting room is unneccesary. All you should have to do is be on time for your appointment. That's how it works in other businesses.

Practicing

Why is it that most doctors and lawyers charge so much for practice? Many have been seeing patients and clients for 30 years or more and are still practicing. If they are just practicing, aren't patients more correctly "Guinnea pigs"?

In virtually any other endeavor, someone who's been doing anything for this long would be said to have an actual profession.

Is this just so they don't have to guarantee any particular lasting, positive result?

When one loses a limb or dies under the care of a doctor, or when a lawyer loses a case and the client must pay a fine or go to jail, they don't offer any refunds. I guess by calling it "practice" rather than "profession", no one expects them to be particularly good at it. So by definition this seems to mean that all practicing doctors and lawyers are either students or amateurs.

Conversely, when we send a crew out to install a sound system, we think that it is reasonable for the customer to expect that it will work. That seems fair enough.

Ironically, it's often the doctors and the lawyers who expect that our work and our products should be guaranteed for life.

We'd offer that guarantee to them if they'd give us the same. For that matter, we'd give them that guarantee if they'd simply guarantee that their "practice" would turn out positively for us.

Until then, we'll engage in our profession until the bass player shows up. Then we'll practice. Wouldn't it be cool if I could get someone to pay me for that?

Selling Like Hotcakes
If hotcakes are selling so well, why don't we all just sell those? And while we're on the "popular food" topic, at what point in history did sliced bread actually become the "greatest thing"? We like to slice our own bread. Does this mean that our taste in food is not the greatest?

the Military

Why does the military have so much infantry but no infants? Since the military are all adults, why aren't they called "adultry"?

Oil

We take olive oil out of olives, but we put motor oil in our motors.

If olive oil is made from olives,
and corn oil is made from corn,
and peanut oil is made from peanuts,
what is baby oil made of?

What is motor oil made of?

Isn't it actually dinosaur oil that we put in our cars?

And what exactly is Oil of Olay? Is it made out of spent bullfighter? (or would that be "Oil of ole'"?)

Barbecue and Forest Fires

It takes just one match to start a forest fire. Why does it take a whole box of matches plus a can of fluid and a newspaper to start the barbecue grill?

Mature Audiences

Why are the most immature, least sophisticated movies with the lowest production values and the worst scripts the ones usually listed listed "For Mature Audiences"?

Tradition

The word "tradition" usually describes an old practice, article of clothing or ceremony that is not necessarily a good idea. But if it is "traditional, it is considered ok, or even revered. Hence, the Electoral College; neckties and those stupid hats the Buckingham Palace Guards have to wear. Those particular traditions just seem like bad habits.

DONOVAN AUDIO DESIGNS

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