Throwing my cardboard in the recycling bin, and seeing that someone recycled their cigarette cartons. Apparently they care enough about the environment to recycle, but taking care of their bodies by not smoking is another thing.
I recently purchased an immersion blender. After I took it out of the box, I looked at the user's manual, which included instructions for the proper way to take the blender out of the box.
And my favorite...It seems everything you do on-line these days results in an email being generated, to let you know that you've signed up for something, or paid a bill, or changed your password. This tells me that this auto-email-generation thing is a relative simple piece part of software coding (or whatever it's called). Part of my job is making sure that, every year, I submit on-line a huge application to the federal government worth over $20 million. For something this big, you'd think it would be easy to get an email verification that the application was submitted, right? Wrong. For all the technology that exists, and for all the importance riding on these applications, the system does not spit out an email letting you know it was submitted. Instead, I have to take a screen shot of the screen after I submit the darn thing, just as my proof that the application was submitted, in case there is ever a dispute. Even nuttier - that's what this federal agency instructs us to do - take a screen shot. So proud that the country who put a man on the moon hasn't yet engineered in this email feature. Until that day, this is what I'm left with:
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