Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 13, 2015

I’ve run into Muriel.

What is the joke here?

what is the plan here??o.k. dogsniff…i get it..

Hey, you think you’re so smart, go for it ! Do you really want to talk to the guy in charge, or the woman who knows what’s going on … ?

A dual purpose kiosk, Information and customer service.

Dogsniff….I gotta congratulate you on that one….Zing! Deserves a rim shot….

You know, it looks to me like Wiley draws the lines in the sidewalk free hand…..“Don’t need no stinkin’ ruler!” I guess…Pretty cool….

That would be great, except…they’d never update it.

Ok then, what is she doing there?

Unfortunately she is part of a very large club…most of whom aren’t quite so blatant.

http://lmgtfy.com/

Actually stores do shake up where they put things to keep you from dashing straight to the shelf where you know it is. They figure by making you look for an item, you might also buy something else.

So what if I don’t know how to “Google it”? I can’t exactly Google “How to Google something”, now, can I?

It amazes me that places like Home Depot don’t have a kiosk or two where you can search for a term like “wood rasp” and not only would it tell you what aisle it is on, but it will also tell you that they are out of stock.

Imagine a world where you drive up to the parking lot and it shows you that there are 139 spaces available. You go in and each aisle has a red or green light to indicate if there is an open space there. You turn down and see the green lights showing you where the open stalls are.

You shop, you stop at the kiosk, You scan your ticket and it tells you where you are parked, You scan your credit card and you are paid for parking.

Europe has such places. Backwards, third-world countries like the United States still have the guy at the booth who takes the ticket and makes change.

The outlet mall in Las Vegas has the red and green light system, and you pay at a machine before you exit the garage. Pretty neat.

dflakOur usual supermarket was doing some remodeling back when the book was popular. I complained, “Somebody moved my cheese” and a bystander broke up.

“For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves.”

Let Me Google That for You http://lmgtfy.com/

Take out the “it”, then you get what she means.

Not just the programmers. The hackers.