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Only in Santa Cruz
This past weekend, I was in Santa Cruz with my family for my in-law's 40th anniversary. While we were sitting in traffic, I saw the passenger of a car get out (traffic was stopped), goto the trunk, open it, open a cooler and pull out what must have been a beer and then got back in the car. That was the first time I'd ever seen anything like that, but it didn't stop there. A few minutes later, the passenger of the car in front of the cooler car, got out, went to the trunk of the cooler car, got something out of the cooler and walked back to his car.
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Competing based on quality, price, and service
The other day I saw a sign in front of a house advertising the company that was putting the new coating on a house. The sign said "woman owned business". That kind of sign irks me because I'd hope that a company can compete on the quality of its product, the price, and the service it provides. I don't really care if a business is minority owned or woman owned; if two products or services were identical, maybe I'd go with a minority owned business, but why advertise this on a sign?
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Erratic driving
On Saturday I was driving down interstate 8 and noticed in my rear view mirror, a car that was swerving across all the lanes. As the car was heading back towards the number 1 lane, I saw the logo on the side of the car. It was a CHP officer doing a traffic break.
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People choose to live here?
I'm in Phoenix (actually Scottsdale) for business and have one big question. Why do people choose to live here? I knew the temperature before I came and prepared accordingly. As my hotel is only 3/4 mile from where we are having meetings, I thought hoofing it wouldn't be all that bad. Well at 10 am and then again at 8 pm, it wasn't all that pleasant.