Incredible: Things read, watched & witnessed

From a brochure eye catchingly titled
COLONOSCOPY:  Questions & Answers 

And I quote,  "...research shows that at least 12% of polyps & 4% of cancers will be missed by colonoscopy, even when done by experts."

EVEN WHEN DONE BY EXPERTS?!?   Who the heck else is performing colonoscopies BESIDES experts???  

So, I guess that means that if EVEN EXPERTS are missing these percentages, it wouldn't hurt for you to at least go ahead & try that Colonoscopy:  Do It Yourself!!  kit that you picked up last week, right?

Incredible.

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On an entirely different note, my son reported to me that not only does the detergent Tide clean your clothes better than the rest of the brands, it actually cleans them - "...6 times better than the other brands combined!"

We both had issues with that.  My son wondered how suddenly the detergent technology has had this amazing breakthru, "Why just yesterday Tide was only TWICE as good!"   What has changed, really?  & how?  "I mean, it's not like they build a car one day that goes 100 miles an hour, & then suddenly by the next day they can build one that goes 600 miles an hour!"

My issue was more with the mathematics.  "Okay, so it cleans  6 times better than the other brands combined?  So, if Breeze cleans X amount, & Gain cleans twice as much as that, & ALL cleans 2 times better than Gain - that's what:  Tide's cleaning power can be figured out with the equation - 5X raised to the 6th power?  I have to have a math degree to figure out if my clothes are 6 times whiter than they were yesterday?"

Incredible.

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All these years I have been waiting for that very popular style of young men wearing their pants belted under their (just say it) butt cheeks, leaving their underwear on full display for the world's viewing pleasure, to come to an end.

Good thing I haven't been holding my breath.

(As an aside, my boys never have, never do, & never will wear their pants this way!  Why?  Because I have then under my thumb?  No.  It's because, "We're not stupid, Mom.").

But today,

(Wait a minute - HOW can this even be comfortable?  
What is the whole POINT?  
To prove they HAVE underwear on at all? 
To answer every mother's statement of "Well, I hope if you are ever in an accident you are at least wearing clean underwear...", with "Look, Mom, now you don't have to ask if it's clean or not, you can SEE it right here!"
To pick up girls?  "Oh, hi, Jimmy, I couldn't help but notice your new plaid Hanes boxers, with the patented ComfortSoft waistband.  What a turn on!  Maybe you can take me out sometime!"").

Oh, never mind.

((In fact, once I saw a guy wearing underwear over his underwear!  Guess there were no clean pants that day...))

But, back to today...

Today, I drove up behind a stellar young man walking down the road.  A man who obviously has taken into consideration the sensibilities & feelings of the older generation.  A true diplomat & hopefully a trend setter as well.

Why, you ask, were his pants pulled up where they belong?

NO!  Not at all.

But, he did have the courtesy to tuck his (incredibly long) tank top into his shorts, which were belted at the knee as usual.  But at least his underwear was underneath the shirt!

Now, that's what I call progress!  Maybe that forward thinking young man is SIX TIMES SMARTER THAN ALL THE OTHERS COMBINED!

Maybe he should take up performing colonoscopies!

Incredible.