Brad Rourke

Things I Don't Understand

Just a few things I don’t understand:

  • Why are 90% of beauty salons named with a pun? (“Shear Energy.” “The Mane Event.”)
  • Why do real estate and insurance agents have their photos on their business cards, when it actually makes them seem less trustworthy?
  • Why do bureaucrats (and people who aspire to bureaucratism) say “at this time?” What is that supposed to mean?

What don’t you understand?

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2 responses to “Things I Don't Understand”

  1. Sutton

    Brad, as someone in the midst of showing an occupied house, and—having the kind of mind I do—as someone who has therefore thought a little about the opportunities for confidence and other crimes that a for-sale house might offer the right crooks, I’ve been glad for the way a photo card helps me to know that whoever is coming in, claiming to be an agent, isn’t just handing me a card he swiped from an open house earlier that day. Of course, he could make fake cards… of course, that would require that his premeditated plan to commit a crime include a decision to leave (or at least bring, and risk leaving) a picture of himself at the scene of a crime….

  2. Angelique

    I don’t agree that photo business cards make real estate agents seem less trustworthy. I think people respond well to those cards (I do) and have now come to expect them. A photo-less real estate card looks like the agent is hiding somethibg.

    (I have no idea why insurance agents use photos.)

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