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Miscellaneous ponderings

With dentists universally recommending soft toothbrushes, why are hard toothbrushes still made?

When the EU made the new Euro money, why did they still go ahead and make a one cent coin, even though it apparently costs more than one cent to produce?

Why do people write checks at the grocery store? Doesn't every bank offer a free Visa/Mastercard check card with their accounts nowadays?

- Blathered by Adam on Friday, February 7, 2003 at 3:47 [ Permalink | Trackback ]
- Filed under Misc
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Comment from
Anita Rowland

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Maybe they’d rather get the couple-day float a paper check can give you?

Also, a written check gives me more info because I use check stubs that I fill out right then, while I don’t always save receipts in an organized fashion.

- Posted on Friday, February 7, 2003 at 7:14 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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