It's Friday and it is time for Four For Friday meme! Thank goodness I am done shopping!
Q1 - Turkey: If you had to pick the biggest business, political, or celebrity turkey of 2009, who would it be and why?
~ The biggest business turkey of 2009 would have to be cash for clunkers. This clunker of a strategy actually did nothing it was supposed to do. Foreign auto companies benefited a lot from it, and American jobs were neither saved nor created.
Q2 - Lights: If someone driving toward you has his car's high beam lights on when you feel they shouldn't be on, do you ignore it or do you flash your lights in an attempt to get him to turn them off?
~ Well, it's not easy to ignore high beams searing in my eyes, but I never flash my own lights at someone on the road. What I do when someone is coming at me with high beams is keep my eyes on the shoulder of the road so I can still see where I'm going until they pass. Especially if we're on a dark lonely country road at 1:00 AM, with no other traffic around, and high corn fields on either side of us. The last thing I would want to do in this situation is flash my lights and risk making some hick town local named Buckshot Billy angry at me.
Q3 - Change: When you pay for an item at a store and the amount due comes to something and change (e.g., $5.47), do you attempt to pay the exact amount (i.e. do you dig around in your purse or pockets to find the 47 cents), or do you simply pay with bills and pocket the change for later on? If you're not the kind to pay with exact change, how do you feel about the people in front of you who do?
~ I am the type to dig for exact change, and what's more, I get agitated when I don't have it and have to break a bill. My husband is the complete opposite. In fact, he never even carries cash, or change. He pays for everything with a card. He says it's faster. He is funny when we are together and I pay for something in exact change, and I can tell he is getting restless, wondering if we will ever leave.
Q4 - Invention: If you could invent something that hasn't been invented yet, what would you invent?
~ If I could, I would invent a car that drives itself. It would have a built in GPS, that I would just type in where to go, and the car would do the rest. I wouldn't even need a driver's license. I could just sit back, relax and talk to the other people in the car all along the way. Plus, this would eliminate the need for auto insurance companies, because if computers are driving all our cars, then accidents would be rare, because computers will follow all the rules of the road. In fact, the entire road system could be computerized, so if a car does break down or malfunction, a main server computer could be alerted by a signal from the car's computer, and in turn notify all other cars in the area of the hazard ahead.
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