If you choose to be in the traveler support industry, make some mother flipping coffee.
I am sick and tired of stopping in a travel help spot during a long trip and finding out 3 of the four coffee pots on the burner are empty and the last one has less than 4 ounces of old […]

There was a time when the convenience store check out counter was hidden behind a barricade of cigarette display cases. The cigarette display cases would hang from the ceiling down to about the 7 foot mark from the floor. Those were the glory days of cigarettes and cigarette advertising. Then the tobacco lawsuits killed […]

By no means am I suggesting you put your gas on a credit card. That’s a terrible idea. But you could at least use a debit or check card and speed this thing along a bit.
I’m not asking you to be a cutting edge techno geek, but check cards are technology from the last millenia. […]

I’m forced to have my beer in a bag when I leave the store. They won’t give me the beer unless they put it in a bag.
If I pay for it and try to grab it real quick without a bag, they grab it simultaneously and stuff it in a bag.
If I tell them I […]

It seems almost every time I go to grab a lid for my fountain drink or my coffee, the lids are stuck together in a stack. I have to fumble through the lids with my grubby hands to get one loose.
Once I break one loose, do I take the top one that my grubby right […]

Few things say f:)k the environment like a styrofoam cooler.
My biggest complaint about styrofoam coolers is that they’re absolute disasters anyway you look at them.
The styrofoam cooler is a quick party fix and that usually means you were lazy and didn’t plan ahead. Nobody ever really relies on the styrofoam cooler to be their permanent […]

At what point did the corporate execs at 7-Eleven decide to cram every known form of meat and/or cheese into a cylinder press and sell the output day and night, 365 days a year?
Morning, noon, or night, … or really late night, it doesn’t matter. No matter what time of day you go into a […]

In an evolutionary sense, something has gone completely wrong with the human body in the last 20 years and I think it all started with the slow addition of ounces to soft drink cup sizes.
First there was the Big Gulp. Debuting in a flash of brilliance years ago at 32 ounces, it was a phenom. […]