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Staff Picks
People who work in stores can be very forthcoming with their advice. For example, a lady at The Home Depot once solved several problems I didn’t even know I had.
Nevertheless, I confess that when I enter a shop, I try to navigate the path of least engagement.
It’s a game of retail Pac-Man—can you collect your items and make it to the cash register, before a helpful person tries to kill you with useful information?
Below: from The New Yorker, 2015. Buy or licence this cartoon.
The F.B.I.
If you’re up to date with current affairs, you’ll know that the F.B.I. has been keeping a low profile.
Why they’ve gone so quiet is a mystery—but we think it’s because they’re on holiday.
I hope, one day, we shall hear from them again.
Milk Wars
I switched to oat milk some years ago, when I realised that I had never seen a cow drinking its own milk.
What do they know that they aren’t telling us?