chastity advertisements

There is a company called "wait wear" that sells clothing imprinted with wait until marriage slogans. OK, why not, but it seems a little weird to me that they have underpants and thongs in their product line. Is this for proselytizing in the locker room at the gym? Otherwise, is it the assumption that the chaste person and his or her sweetie will get to the point of seeing each other in underwear but need reminders to look but not touch?

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modern cars

The review in yesterday's Globe of Ray Kurzweil's new book remarked that a car key now has more computing power than a PC in 1990. I'm skeptical, but the key situation is irritating. One of the things about buying the used car is that it came with only one key. It seems fairly urgent to me to obtain another, before I lose it. It turns out that I will have to take the car to a Volvo dealer and have it waft electronic waves at the blank key or something. This involves a half hour visit to the service department, as opposed to two minutes at a hardware store, which is what it took to copy the key on the 1979 car. Another irritation is that the insurance company wants special forms signed by an authorized used car inspection place. This is unrelated to the regular MA safety & emissions inspection. I'll have to make a separate trip for each of these nuisances, continuing a trend. In the week since I bought the car, almost all the driving has been because I bought the car - bringing it home, taking it back because of a small problem, these two trips. argh. I admit it was convenient and pleasant to be able to stay
'til the end of the Sacred Harp singing on Friday night instead of leaving an hour early so that I could catch the last bus. Still, it seems crazy to drive so much just so I can drive occasionally. The errands I have to do this afternoon will be more convenient on the bicycle, so the car will continue to sit in the driveway.