I think I do in fact appreciate the moment more if I’ve paid more for it! And even at Starbucks, if we feel that we’re paying for our productivity, we have a greater inclination to produce. And studies show that the placebo effect of medication (typically accounting for 33% of people’s subjective opinion of its effectiveness) is increased by increasing cost of medications. I don’t know what exactly that says about us.
Eh, boogers aren’t the least sanitary things you will touch today. Spaetzle’s immune system should at the very least cover booger bugs (rather like an insurance company, isn’t it?).
When we were in elementary school, it was all the vogue to be able to burp the alphabet; you were considered extraordinary if you did it in one breath.
This is like Calvin’s old book reports!