A Sorry State of Affairs

[LWolf]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/24/opinion/24JAYN.html?ex=1075957763&ei=1&en=4d36575c6bdf6d61

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I was in line with my toothpaste at Walgreens the other day. When I got to the register, with no one behind me, the cashier looked at me straight in the face and hollered, "Next!"

My health insurance coverage recently changed. By mistake I mailed my premium to my old insurance company. It mailed it back, saying someone else was in charge now. But the new insurance company would not take my check until I had cleared the decks with its predecessor. So I mailed the check to my old insurance company again and said please accept my money. It mailed it back to me with the same explanation as before.

I won't go on with this one because it gets ugly.

Some years ago I was fixing up an old house I had bought. I beseeched a local bank for a loan. The bank appraiser was due on Thursday. He did not make it. On a Friday, we tore out the ancient kitchen so we could put in a new one. On Monday, the appraiser showed up. We cannot make a loan on a house without a kitchen, he said. We consider this a shell. If you had been here when you said you would, I said, you would have seen a kitchen. He shrugged and walked away.

My 5-year-old son once asked me for $5 to pay for his kindergarten class photo. When I received the picture, my son was not in it. He had been absent the day the photo was taken. I did not know this. Todd, I said, you are not in the picture. Why? If I was not there, he said, how would I know I missed it?

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What put me in mind of all this nonsense was President Bush's State of the Union address.

[indepat]

1. Nonsense begets nonsense