Our favorite cereal is disappearing from grocery store
shelves and making it difficult to find two boxes anywhere. After comparing our
favorite cereal to potential alternatives, we’re still hunting for a good replacement.
Sometimes substitutes make us smile and sometimes they don’t. What do you think
about these folks:
Everyone’s cheery in the video because no one’s revealed an
evil side. Not long ago the news featured a story where a lady tried taking
over her acquaintance’s life. It didn’t end well. When have you settled for a substitute
instead of the real deal?
With over
one hundred stations available on the radio, I spend more time listening to the
comedy stations than the music stations. It’s similar to the grocery store
where there’s a wall of cereal options—and we choose corn flakes. Consider the
customer who chooses vanilla at the ice cream store, ignoring the other thirty
exotic flavors.
A magazine survey
reported that the majority of people (36%) only want around ten TV channels,
and 22% want five or fewer. So why are we drowning in hundreds of choices?We didn’t ask for them. Companies offer them.
Here’s what happens with too many choices:
If two
choices confuse us, imagine what hundreds will do. We hate confusion! So we
take short-cuts by eliminating options and focusing on the necessary few. That’s
fine for radio stations, cereal, and ice cream, but not for important
decisions.
Graduates,
life-changers, seekers, we owe it to ourselves to thoroughly explore decisions
that matter. Rather than blindly following the advice of family or friends, dig
in to find the answers that matter. What decision do you pledge to give careful
consideration?
Fishing is such a relaxing family pastime. We went out to the lake a couple of weeks ago. The water flowed along, interrupted only by an occasional boater or a duck. Of course, one of our kids beckoned the ducks with quacking sounds and then exclaimed, “I am the Duck Whisperer!”I spent the time relaxing in the gentle breeze, swatting away flying critters, and cringing at comments about the nightcrawlers’ “blue veins” and their “gooey, white hearts” as the poor worms were ripped apart, speared and hooked for bait. Yuk! It was a worm’s worst nightmare.
I’m guessing few people associate relaxing lake fishing with violence. Once you combine worm gore and fish blood, you have a really messy event and so I bring plenty of hand sanitizer. I doled out some sanitizer after the worm tearing and more after tossing back the catch. I won’t bore you with the measurements of the four fish we caught, but let’s just say several spanned the width of a hand. We’ll skip the tales about the “big ones that got away.” When you catch the really big ones, you better get proof and here’s a guy who does:
Jeremy Wade catches the scary fish, the ones you don’t want to know exist, especially if you‘re vacationing in an exotic place because that’s where they seem to lurk. The various kinds of fish in our waters rivals the types of cereals on our supermarket shelves. Why so many? I have a few fish favorites. Check out two of them:One fishTwo fish
In your opinion, why are there so many interesting and unusual species of fish?
