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Showing posts with label common sense. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Punish All to Deal with One

This post is inspired by Seth Godin's post about snowglobes.  His post talks about putting up a sign in everyone's way alerting travelers at airports that snowglobes are not allowed onboard the plane.

The point of the post is that because one careless person didn't think to check a snowglobe with his luggage, all travelers need to be alerted to the potential problem.  How many times have you traveled with a snowglobe?

I have to say it is has never happened to me.

Look around you though at all the signs, warnings and rules we have because one person did something stupid. I love the warnings that say "do not eat" on those little freshening packets that come in your sneakers.  Can you picture someone being dumb enough to say, "Oh wow, my new sneakers came with a snack!"  I mean really...