Why Change What Works?

copyright (c) 1997 by Nasser Shukayr

Are you having FUN with your computer?  Do you use your computer to send LETTERS to people?  Well, here's a DEAL.  It's a brand-new way to send letters.  All you need is a PENCIL and a blank piece of PAPER.

What??  You're not interested?  Okay, do you like to keep things cold in your REFRIGERATOR?  Do you have ANY idea how much ENERGY a refrigerator uses, and how it really doesn't keep things all THAT cold?  There's a better way.  It's called an ICE BOX.  It's a wooden box and you put a REAL block of ice in it and it keeps things cold the OLD-FASHIONED way.

Huh??  You don't THINK so?  Okay, do you ever drive a CAR?  Do you realize that one day the STARTER MOTOR just might go BONKERS, and then you'd be STRANDED?  There's a simple solution.  Get an old-timey car which doesn't NEED a crummy old starter motor.  Whenever you want to start your car, just get out in front of it and turn the crank until the car starts.

Do you ever go to a GROCERY STORE?  Have you noticed how they now have electronic price scanners, so cashiers don't have to key in all those prices?  It's inaccurate, it's cumbersome, it's different, it's new, and we certainly won't put up with it.  Why don't they go back to the good old days of keying in the prices?

Do you like SQUARE DANCING?  You DO??  Then you need a LIST, so you can dance the same calls as everyone else.  Today is your LUCKY day, because here is the DEAL of the CENTURY.  You need a list from TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago.  There's nothing WRONG with it, except very few people can find a way to actually make it WORK, and new dancers can't actually LEARN all the calls in a reasonable timeframe, and callers can't actually GO somewhere and CALL every call on the list.  Other than that, it's a GREAT list.  It's certainly much better than any modern new-fangled list people might come up with TODAY.

   Nasser "why change something if it has always worked?" Shukayr