I had a day

Wow, almost a year since my last post. Guess I haven't had much to say. Today, however, I noticed a couple strange things, that combined would make one hell of a long facebook-status, so here you go. (Noticing strange things seems to be a side effect of reading too much Douglas Adams in a short time, which, co-incidentally, is exactly what I've been doing since I bought the omnibus containing all 5 hitch-hiker novels (and the Young Zaphod bonus story).) Anyway. Here are the things, numbered and in roughly chronological order:

1. I was taking the train back home from school and looking out the window, when I noticed a van, of the sort plumbers, carpenters etc. use to get places. It had a six-word slogan (in English, no less), grouped into three groups of two words each. It said:

THERE ARE


NO PROBLEMS


ONLY SOLUTIONS

What I (and hopefully you too, at this point) started thinking was, if there really were no problems (a highly dubious claim in times like these), then what on earth were the solutions FOR. And how would they even be recognized as solutions, when the problems they supposedly solved didn't exist to need solutions in the first place.

2. I went to check out a new pizza place (in a town with close to a dozen pizza places, opening a new one doesn't seem like a very sound business idea to me), with the imaginative name 1453 (no idea why). The pizza itself was OK-ish, but what quickly started bothering to me was the muzak they played. (Think Careless Whisper but without ANY catchiness at all). Each time the song ended, I hoped something better would start. Even a DJ chattering nonsense would have been welcome. But no, it just all seemed to be the same kind of stuff over and over. Until I realized (much to my horror) that it wasn't simply that they played only one kind of music. They were actually playing just one song on infinite repeat. Just. One. Song.

(To be fair, that song was everything a good rock tune isn't, so even with about a dozen listenings through, it left pretty much no impression in my mind at all.)

3. There isn't actually a third thing. But a numbered list of two items would seem silly.