Why am I never satisfied? I don’t know if that’s completely accurate, but why do some things just irritate me? For example, I filled up my gas tank the other day and paid $1.93/gallon. Woo hoo! That’s stinkin’ awesome since we’ve been paying closer to $3/gallon than less than $2. Yet this morning I drive by the same station and now gas is $1.85. CRAP! I could have saved $0.08/gallon! Which would work out to about $1.20!, about $0.50 less than I spent yesterday morning on the donut holes and milk I bought because I was hungry.
Then, on top of all that I notice the car in front of me has one of those little ribbon magnets on it. Now, that’s not so bad except that I think the only person’s benefitting from those little magnets are the people selling them. I think people put those on their car so they think they’re being helpful, but they’re really not. The problem with this magnet is it had pictures of little basketballs on it and said “I [HEART] Basketball”. That just demeans all the other good intentions of the ribbons that actually do have charitable causes behind them.
I think these new magnets are the new bumper stickers, but to fit today’s world of not being really sure you want to commit to the message you plaster on your car! What if I put this I love basketball bumper sticker on my car and then decided I hate basketball. My life could be in turmoil.
On a semi-related note (although by semi I don’t mean 18-wheeler) I did see another funny bumper sticket (hooray for commitment!) that said, “My greyhound is faster than your Honor Student”. I thought that was funny, but then saw they had a little ribbon magnet that said something about saving greyhounds!