Bud Grossmann’s Words of the Week for the Week of June 7, 2015 Previously unpublished editorial comment. © 2015 by Bud Grossmann. All Rights Reserved.   Enhanced Imprint (2015) © 2015 by Bud Grossmann SEEKING CLARITY & GUIDANCE David C. Fischer, age 66, of Fjord, Wisconsin, sometimes grows a bit annoyed at illegible, incomprehensible, difficult to find, or entirely absent notices of “Best If Used By,” “Sell By,” “Best If Used Before,” “Use By,” “Exp,” “If It Were Me, I Wouldn’t Eat This Stuff After,” and so forth on food products. Upon encountering illegible, incomprehensible, difficult to find, or entirely absent notices, Fischer sometimes aspires to be appointed King of the World so that he could require manufacturers of perishable products sold in Wisconsin supermarkets to place a demonstrably legible and uniformly formatted pull date immediately above the bar code on all such packaged products. Make it readable, make it meaningful, and put it where a shopper can find it—that would be King David of Fjord’s decree. While awaiting his appointment to that high office, Fischer has been spending approximately eighteen percent of his grocery shopping time shaking his head in dismay and muttering, sputtering, and cursing. This, coincidentally, happens to be very nearly the same percentage of time he shakes his head in dismay and mutters, sputters, and curses while engaging in conversations with Lutherans on matters of theology, religion, and ecclesiastical polity. ♦         ARCHIVES         Click for a list of other Words of the Week I would welcome your thoughts on this page (or any of my others).  Write to me at the following address.  Please be sure to spell Grossmann with two n’s and mention what page you are writing about. Thanks!  BUD GROSSMANN Top of this page | HOME | Fine Photography | Picture of the Day | Writings | | Words of the Week | Mom & Pop Prop. Mgt. | FAQ |

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