Nobody asked me, but … (#25)
July 22nd, 2008 Al KalterIt was 107 degrees outside yesterday evening. That’s what I was told by the electronic time and temperature sign in front of a local real estate office. Seems like it would be hard enough to sell houses these days without telling people that they are in an oven, but this particular sign seems to always read several degrees higher than reality. Maybe the wiring is overheating, or the surface is absorbing the heat. But that wouldn’t explain why their clock function is an hour ahead, would it? “Buy or sell your house with us, because we don’t know what time it is or how hot it is!” Or maybe what they’re saying is, “We’ll exaggerate anything to have your business.” I wonder.