Things that make you go hmmmm
1….?
2. Why do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering?
3. Why do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?
4. Why do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke?
5. Why do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters?
6. Why do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage?
7. Why do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t want to talk to in the first place?
8. Why do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight?
9. Why are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink?
10. Why is the minimum drinking age 21 while the age to legally possess a handgun is 18?
And I thought this would be about the new FIDE rating list!
Why did Mr. Leroy Dubeck help a convicted felon get elected to the USCF Executive Board?
Why does the USCF keep on losing money year after year?
1. Why do we think about such question in-between, when we try TO learn chess in this blog?
nice list, but answers are n ot that surprising. I’ll take a shot:
2. Easier for the ATM manufacturer to mass produce ATMs and put the same ATM in a drive thru (much smaller quantity) as well as nnon-drive thru (much larger). It doesnt cost much to add braille, but the option to move ATMs is more valuable to a bank. Here the bank has the option to move the ATM to a non-drive thru location if necessary.
2. This is to retain the interest of the time elastic quick buy customer. Same reason you have express check out lines in the grocery shop. Also, the number of non-prescription shoppers is much higher than the prescription shoppers.
4. what you want them to order regular coke too? at least they are being diet conscious. how about their utility from large burgers and fries is larger than the utility from forgoing the same and being weight conscious .. but their utility from coke is much smaller than forgoing the same and being diet conscious. Finally, there is a small group of die hard guys who prefer the taste of diet coke to regular coke.
5. They let you handle the pens. Do they let you into the vault?
6. difficult to steal a locked car (although NYC residents willl disagree)… easy to walk off with unlocked junk. Also one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. Additionally, a locked car can handle the elements, but the junk may not be able to. Finally, I am lazy and it is easier to leave the junk in the garage and park the car in the driveway.
7. We also use answering machines so people can leave a message when we are not in. screening calls is only a side benefit.
8. probably the second-best question. there is a 1987 Journal of Business article on this very topic. Consumer heterogeneity, storage costs and transaction costs are one explanation.
9. So a handicapped parent can bring a non-handicapped child to the rink?
10. The best question. Funny this question always pops up during war times. May states reduced the drinking age to 18 following the Vietnam war. But Reagan changed it back due to intense lobbying by Mothers against Drunk Driving (MADD). I guess, in non-war years, this is a powerful lobbying group that gets support for its agenda .. but in war years people realize the fallacy because of the context.
Eli
#2 – Stevie Wonder’s Limo.
Why are there locks on a 24 hour restaurant/store which never closes?