Three Reasons To Study History (2014)

1. To know how it used to be.

2. To learn from some mistakes made.

3.  To know what was really going on.

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Without a doubt-

We study history, with parts left out.

 

Compulsive Shopping (2003)

While waiting in the grocery store checkout line the other day, my eye happened to catch a bag of mini chocolate candies. Of course the candy wasn’t on my list, but as I reached over to grab a bag and put it in my basket, a kind gentleman behind me said, “now that is what they call impulse shopping.”

I knew that he was right and I had to reply, “they stick this stuff here so that the kids will ask for it,” adding “even if they’re not with you at the moment.”

Obviously it is for us grown shoppers too, because even though I happened to mention the kids, they had not been brought to the store this time, and they were no where in the vicinity.

Every once in a while you’ll see certain things screaming out at you when you pass it in the aisle too. It’s not on your list and you promised yourself that you wouldn’t add anything else, but then all of a sudden it looks just too appealing to pass up.

You suddenly make excuses like, well it’s just one extra thing or I meant to add those things to my list.

Impulse buying can be fun. Let’s face it, there are too many things in our lives that we can afford to do compulsively. (Although there are some of us who spend a lifetime at it.) So an extra thing here or there at the grocery store isn’t going to make a difference. At least not until we get to the checkout counter.

Didn’t we leave the kids behind so that we would stay within our budget? Didn’t we say we’d stick to only what is on the list? Of course we did. The most ironic thing about impulse buying is that after we get home to fish through all those things that we impulsively bought, it turns out that we forgot to get one of the main things on the list that we went to the store for to begin with.

Could it be that some of that impulsive shopping distracted us or put us off track? Of course not.

We have more willpower and stamina than that. At least until the next shopping trip comes along.

“Eating a hot dog
without the forgotten
bun-
Can be done but is not
quite as fun!”

Three Often Forgotten (2015)

1. Keys.
2. Eyeglasses.
3. Fact check.
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To roll up your sleeve-
To “check out” what
you need to believe.

 

 

Practice It Right-Let’s Be Polite (303)

Just because an issue was buried, meant to go away-

Doesn’t mean that it won’t poke its head up again, on another day.

-2015-

The New That Happened To Unfold-From The Old (78)

To dig up the past-

That was once brushed under the rug, not to be amassed.

-2015-

Three Sad Circumstances (2014)

1. Mentally ill.
2. Confinement.
3. To be buried with a number only.
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To remember when-
So many in old psychiatric hospitals who died, simply forgotten.

Three Gone But Not Forgotten (2014)

1 Woolworth’s.
2. COMPAQ.
3. Astrodome?
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To find?
Only a historic landmark sign?

Three Reasons To Study History (2014)

1. To know how it used to be.

2. To learn from some mistakes made.

3.  To know what was really going on.

=================================

Without a doubt-

We study history, with parts left out.

Three Danger Signs (2014)

1. Unchecked.
2. Neglected.
3. Forgotten.
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Disaster to spell-
Thanks to thousands of uninspected
high-risk oil wells.

Compulsive Shopping (2003)

While waiting in the grocery store checkout line the other day, my eye happened to catch a bag of mini chocolate candies. Of course the candy wasn’t on my list, but as I reached over to grab a bag and put it in my basket, a kind gentleman behind me said, “now that is what they call impulse shopping.”

I knew that he was right and I had to reply, “they stick this stuff here so that the kids will ask for it,” adding “even if they’re not with you at the moment.”

Obviously it is for us grown shoppers too, because even though I happened to mention the kids, they had not been brought to the store this time, and they were no where in the vicinity.

Every once in a while you’ll see certain things screaming out at you when you pass it in the aisle too. It’s not on your list and you promised yourself that you wouldn’t add anything else, but then all of a sudden it looks just too appealing to pass up.

You suddenly make excuses like, well it’s just one extra thing or I meant to add those things to my list.

Impulse buying can be fun. Let’s face it, there are too many things in our lives that we can afford to do compulsively. (Although there are some of us who spend a lifetime at it.) So an extra thing here or there at the grocery store isn’t going to make a difference. At least not until we get to the checkout counter.

Didn’t we leave the kids behind so that we would stay within our budget? Didn’t we say we’d stick to only what is on the list? Of course we did. The most ironic thing about impulse buying is that after we get home to fish through all those things that we impulsively bought, it turns out that we forgot to get one of the main things on the list that we went to the store for to begin with.

Could it be that some of that impulsive shopping distracted us or put us off track? Of course not.

We have more willpower and stamina than that. At least until the next shopping trip comes along.

“Eating a hot dog
without the forgotten
bun-
Can be done but is not
quite as fun!”