If Mr. Spock lived in America in the 21st century, I swear his brain would explode. We are all familiar with the hot dog/hot dog bun problem. (They package 10 hot dogs, but you can only buy 8 buns in a pack.) Recently, there are a few other irregularities that have been bothering me:
* Baby bottles come in a three pack, but the nipples are only sold in a two-pack. That means you have one bottle with no nipple and what good is that?
* My Pepperidge Farm sandwich bread doesn't fit in a Ziploc sandwich bag. It is a tad too long. What's up with that? I don't want to use a more expensive freezer bag to store my sandwiches.
* Bed, Bath, and Beyond's coupon policy is ridiculous. They issue tons of 20% off an item coupons, and you can use them even when they are expired. Plus, you can use a coupon on each item that you purchase. You aren't limited to one coupon per sale. Why don't they just lower the prices of everything in the store by 20%?
* If you are lucky enough to have good insurance, your medical provider gets a discount. Here is an example of what I mean. The first week that the baby was home we needed to use a biliblanket to help with her jaundice. By the time we turned the blanket back in, we had a bill of $770. Yesterday, I got the statement from the insurance that the claim had been paid. Because we used a "preferred provider" for the biliblanket, there was a $300 discount. So obviously this means that the total charge came to $470. However, if we were unable to afford insurance, we would have been required to pay the full $770.
In the words of Spock, "That's illogical."
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I've noticed that with the insurance, too. Not that I'm complaining about having to pay a lower amount. And clearly, you're supposed to buy two packs of bottles and three packs of nipples.
The hot dogs and buns drives me insane! Reminds me of Mother of the Bride, where Steve Martin gets arrested for taking out the buns to get the right number.
Wow. Cary and I were talking about the Pepperidge Farm Bread thing just a couple of days ago. I found that you can kind of shoehorn the bread into a standard Ziploc bag if you turn it 90 degrees before putting it in the bag, then once it's in, turning it back to its original orientation. Not sure why Pepperidge Farms hasn't realized that their bread is the wrong proportions for easy lunch portability. Unless they're trying to strong-arm the plastic bag manufacturer's into altering the dimensions of their sandwich bags. Yeah, don't think that will happen.
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