All satirist keep a list. Santa also keeps a list. Hrmm….
I hate to digress, but does anyone know why kept lists are referred to as ‘laundry lists’? When does anyone use a list when making laundry? Any paper I leave in the washing machine gets ruined. Maybe I’m doing something wrong?
Anyways, I haven’t really made much progress against my list. I thought of doing something with it for NaNoWriMo, but I didn’t get as far as I would have liked. I think it is because lists are so overwhelming. There is so much to do, and — like Twix bars — it is hard to choose just one:
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9. People who don’t use turn signals
10. People who drive slowly in the left lane
11. Stores that close early
12. Patrons that show up right before close
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The point (does lordpi.com ever have one?) is that it’s good to make a list, but it is better to make progress. Unlike clocks, stopped lists aren’t going to be correct 1-3 times a day.* Let’s make the world a better place by working on the contents of our lists. But don’t go overboard — we don’t want to make it too good of a place: it would obviate the need for satire.
Without satire I would probably have to write about video game programming or something similarly productive/useful. Ugh.
* It is a common misconception that a stopped clock shows the correct time twice a day. However, this doesn’t account for clocks that are displaying military time or for clocks that are showing a time during daylight savings changes.
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