In reference to taking healthy snacks into the movie theater as “contraband” [“Good Food on the Sly,” Jan. 4, Quandary], Plan A was to approach the management and offer to buy your own healthy snacks from them. Good luck!
You’d be lucky to even speak to a manager at most movie theaters. About a year ago, a theater accidentally ran our credit card charge for tickets through twice. Even though we went there several times and called several more times, we could never actually speak to the manager (or anyone who could handle the situation). Plus, we never got the charge credited back to our account (and it was their error!).
After wasting that much time, we didn’t feel like sitting on hold with our credit card company to have them settle it either. Maybe the ethicist should consider the ethics involved in charging $5 for a bag of popcorn.
–Michele McKechnie, Munster, Ind.
Get outta his way!
Great observations [in “Nasty Barriers to Traffic Flow,” Jan. 18, by Ross Werland]. I’d like to add [that] they don’t spend multimillions of dollars to install escalators and moving sidewalks so that your fat, lazy a– doesn’t have to move!
They are there to move you quicker, as in, “If I climbed the stairs, it would take twice as long and I’d be out of breath. If I climb these, I’m there in half the time with half the effort.”
Also, the world would be a much better place if people followed the laws of traffic for pedestrian as well as vehicular movement: Keep to the right! Stay out of the left except when passing.
I have notches on my rather hefty and substantial briefcase. To earn one, please walk totally oblivious toward me at O’Hare, five abreast, head down, involved in deep conversation, on the left side.
I will set my shoulder, look the other way and send you back into last month the way that Jeremy Roenick and Doug Jarret (Chairman of the Boards) dream about.
Not that I’m hostile, though …
–Ronn Harris, Elmhurst
Have you ever really tried driving the speed limit in the left lane?
If you did, you’d know that getting stuck behind a slowpoke holding up traffic just isn’t a problem–it almost never happens!
The guys who are blocking traffic are really going 55 or 60–it just feels like 45 to you because you were going 70 or 80!
Here’s my rule of thumb: If drivers keep passing me on the right, they’re going too fast! Slow down!
You think it’s my job to eliminate “ping-ponging” by letting speeders go even faster? That’s for the police.
Traffic flows best when all lanes are going the same speed, not when the left lane is wide open and the right is clogged.
I’m sorry, but if you like this law, then you are a lawbreaker.
–Alan Wagner, Streamwood
