1. . . . can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. . . . are there handicap parking places in front of our skating rinks.
3. . . . do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. . . . do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a Diet Coke.
5. . . . do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. . . . do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. . . . do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
8. . . . do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. . . . do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.