Grandparents Day?

Whata great holiday - but whoever was put in charge of promoting it should be fired.

Moto Java

This place is a coffee/motorcycle repair shop in San Francisco. I've seen some funny combination stores before and this one is pretty creative. Some of the more notables in memory have included video rental/doughnuts and ice cream/laundry mat to name two.

The products these proprietors make are sometimes do not mesh well with each other but the idea behind is sound - keeping the place open.

Rent is a fixed cost so if people only want to buy sandwiches at lunchtime, what can you sell in the morning and at night? This is where you see creativity shine.

There's nothing wrong with mixing two odd ball products. The only really issue is aesthetics (which is a big issue, I guess). Otherwise, what would be wrong with a Chinese Cuisine/Pet Store?

Umm, I'll take the cash!

Not all choices are as easy as this one. At this Quisno's the mother/daughter in front of me in line took nearly 5 minutes to decide what they were going to eat.

For a few weeks about a year ago I exercised making decisions immediately when asked. E.g. instead of saying, "I don't care," "you choose," or "whatever," when asked about what's for dinner, which way to go, or what movie to watch - I would make the call.

Wrong or right, what I discovered was that how many decisions we make are trivial and yet pondered endlessly. Try it. I'm back to thinking about these trivial choices but now I know that if I had to pick a sandwich immediately, I could.