Things I Don't Understand

Recent additions are in teal.

• Daylight Savings Time. It seems fundamentally — and existentially — wrong to play with elements of time.
  
• We spend almost as much on car insurance as we do health insurance. The latter works for maintenance as well as emergencies (though arguably not as effective as it should), but with the former we only get finanacial "assistance" in case of an accident — in which case they raise our premiums anyway. Why do we tolerate this? And, even better, why is against the law to drive without car insurance, but not against the law for insurance companies — of all varieties — to treat their clients unjustly?
  
• How it is that co-workers who barely know each other — but work in the same general vicinity — often show up to work wearing similar colors/patterns on the same day. Is this evidence of a (fashionable) univeral collective?
  
• How, when driving, you can abide by the "three second" rule in or around a large city without being cut off by other motorists taking advantage of the gap.
• Why more women aren't outraged by diamond/jewelry advertisements.
  
• Why "Pin-Sol" has "pine" in its name and all over its label, and yet cannot be used on wood floors.
• Why Subway, one of the "healtiest" fast food franchaises, always leaves a stench on my clothes that reeks of vomit & vinegar.
• How Sallie Mae, one of the largest "student loan" creditors, gets away with propelling young graduates further into debt by stuffing their mailbox with credit card applications.
• How deer are able to read all of those "Deer Crossing" signs.
• How President Bush won the first election.
• Why, after a disgraceful four years, President Bush won a second election by an even wider margin.
• Why there wasn't a public outcry when the youngest daughter on the hit television show Family Matters disappeared after a few seasons (i.e. they never integrated her disappearance into the show as "sending her away to boarding school" or even "longstanding coma." Rather, they just pretended she "never existed").
• Why so few people seemed to notice when Uncle Jesse, on the hit television show Full House, changed his last name from "Cochran" to "Katsopolis" (again, with no explanation).
• Who actually "rubbernecks" automobile accidents. Everyone I know claims to despise these people; and yet, traffic here always jams even after the accident is removed to the shoulder. I can only conclude that everyone who hates rubberneckers is, in fact, guilty of the crime.
• If any lives have actually been saved by me taking off my shoes everytime I visit an airport.

I'll add to this list as more baffling oddities — silly and otherwise — occur to me. If you ever want to check back in, I'll link to this post under "Modus Operandi" on my blog's main page. You may also see some of these resurface as haikus.

Feel free to add any of your own in the "comments" area... if so-inspired, I may turn your random confusion into haikus as well.