1. Languages are wonderful. An example:
The sneaky trick behind making the same sentence have so many different interpretations is naturally that Finnish is an agglutinative language.
2. It would have been a good idea when buying a poinsettia for the decoration of the Snakepit Inc. to check if it was artificial. It would have been a good idea even at a later date when deciding to water it...
3. I spent almost five hours on the phone yesterday, trying to fix a stupid problem with my health insurance. I spent about the same amount of time a month ago on the same problem and was then told that everything was fixed. Nothing was fixed.
But I did receive four identical letters telling me that I was not approved for something I had not applied for!
I love the Kafkaesque feeling of the experience. It must be good for something, perhaps the growth of an even thicker carapace over my sensitive snake soul.
Though I wonder if anyone ever calculates the opportunity cost of all those hours waiting while on the phone: The ear damage caused by that dreadful music (while-u-wait), all the work that will not get done while holding on to the phone with a rigor mortis -like grip, the acid attack on the stomach linings of the increasingly frustrated and helpless caller.