Unanswered Questions

Do you receive strange questions from friends and strangers during any given week?  Many questions don’t need an answer or really don’t deserve an answer.  I will share the most amazing questions and wonder if you would have an answer to some of them.

How is it that we put men on the moon before we figured out that it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why do you have to ‘put your two cents in’ but it’s only a ‘penny for your thoughts’? Where is that extra penny going?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box? Now, that’s a legitimate question.  I wonder why we haven’t seen round pizza boxes.  Could it be that they would be too expensive to manufacture?

Think about this one! Why do people pay to go up in tall buildings, then put money in a binocular machine to look at things on the ground?

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars but check when you say that the paint is wet?

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face that he gets mad at you, but put him in a truck or car and he sticks his head out the window?  Why? Why? Why?

If the professor on Gilligan’s island could make a radio out of a coconut, why in the world couldn’t he fix a hole in their boat?  (Long-running TV program) I guess the program wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did!

Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath one uses, the bubbles are always white? And, is there ever a day when mattresses are NOT on sale?

Why didn’t Tarzan have a beard? Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest but ducks when a revolver is thrown at him?
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are going dead?

Why do most toasters have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp when one turns his back?

Why does one keep going over a string a dozen times with the vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it back down to give the vacuum one more chance?  Are you guilty of this?

Why does a plastic bag not open from the end on your first try? This reporter knows the answer! It’s to make shoppers go crazy!  BUT, if you wet your fingers on a wet vegetable and then try it, those little plastic bags will slip open!

Why does the store vegetable sprayer always go off when you’re picking something up?

How do bugs get into enclosed light fixtures? If you attempt to catch something that’s falling off a table, why do you manage to knock something else over?

Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star have the same tune? Why did you just try singing the previous two songs?

Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They’re going to see you naked anyway….

If corn oil is made from corn and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from? Why do folks say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up every few hours?

Everyone has a family member like this: Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new will have materialized?  Why do husbands think that everything in the fridge should be on the top shelf and in front?

In winter, why do people try to keep the house as warm as the outside summer weather was when they complained about the heat?

Now, here is a statistic on sanity:  One out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness.  Think of your three best friends.  If they are okay, then it’s YOU!