There are all sorts of little mysteries which seem unexplained. For example, why is it when you do the washing-up (by hand in our household. We don't have a washing-up machine. Frankly a waste of time and money. Just an excuse to load the thing up and forget it and then spend time emptying it. You still have to rinse the dishes and cutlery and whatever else you need to wash, so why not just wash it and dry it and then put it away?) You spend an age doing the job and at the end, when you've dried everything and it's back in it's place, you find a single lonely teaspoon at the bottom of the bowl? Why does the washing-up liquid make so much foam, which doesn't actually have any purpose at all? I have worked in industrial kitchens and used professional washing-up liquid which is very effective and has absolutely no foam. The foam doesn't have any purpose other than just being a sort of 'extra' which takes ages to rinse away. It doesn't make the liquid work any better, or, indeed, at all. It's just that we've been conditioned to have foam when you use washing-up liquid. I expect the manufacturers put an ingredient into Fairy liquid and other similar products, that has no other purpose than to create foam.
Not just teaspoons being left after washing-up. How about when you do clothes washing, you invariably get one lone sock left in the drum of the washing machine or a pair of underpants or knickers, when you've finished the job and hung the laundry out to dry. I always seem to find I haven't got a complete pair of socks to peg out or at the end of the whole operation, when I come to put the clothes away, nothing more irritating than having one or two lone socks which don't have a partner. Nothing more annoying when you need a fresh pair of socks, you open the drawer, and all you can come across is one or two single socks. This very thing happened this morning when I did some washing and I had two socks which didn't have partners.
Why do we get telephone calls, and when you pick up, there's NOBODY THERE! You just get a sort of 'burr-burr' sound. What IS that all about? Is there someone on the other end? Are they listening? If so, are they little green men from some far-off planet? It does make me wonder. When you get those really annoying calls from some company trying to sell you something and they seem to know something about you which perhaps you didn't know about yourself or they're just being 'nice' in order to sell you whatever, I begin to wonder how much information is shared by companies you've signed up to legitimately. Then there's those calls which are obviously scams. Telling you there's a problem with your computer. Usually your Windows computer, which I don't have. Just trying to phish (if that's the correct term) in order to get your personal details so they can send a virus or something worse to infect your computer.
Where does all the junk mail we receive come from? Most of it's definitely not for things I signed up for. I never asked for it to be sent. How do they know that I might be interested in buying a rather expensive vacuum cleaner that you can charge up and it comes with a special version that you can use to clean your car? We have a perfectly efficient vacuum cleaner and certainly don't need another one, thanks all the same.
Why do we get telephone calls, and when you pick up, there's NOBODY THERE! You just get a sort of 'burr-burr' sound. What IS that all about? Is there someone on the other end? Are they listening? If so, are they little green men from some far-off planet? It does make me wonder. When you get those really annoying calls from some company trying to sell you something and they seem to know something about you which perhaps you didn't know about yourself or they're just being 'nice' in order to sell you whatever, I begin to wonder how much information is shared by companies you've signed up to legitimately. Then there's those calls which are obviously scams. Telling you there's a problem with your computer. Usually your Windows computer, which I don't have. Just trying to phish (if that's the correct term) in order to get your personal details so they can send a virus or something worse to infect your computer.
Where does all the junk mail we receive come from? Most of it's definitely not for things I signed up for. I never asked for it to be sent. How do they know that I might be interested in buying a rather expensive vacuum cleaner that you can charge up and it comes with a special version that you can use to clean your car? We have a perfectly efficient vacuum cleaner and certainly don't need another one, thanks all the same.
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