Apoplanesis (a-po-plan’-e-sis): Promising to address the issue but effectively dodging it through a digression.
There so many terrible things going on in the world that it is almost impossible to keep up. We need to do something about it. I will address it in my speech here today.
Just other day, I was watching Fox News.they were doing a story about a woman who had won the lottery three times. She was content with the $30,000,000.00 she had won. She had no trick or method for winning the lottery, she just won.
That’s I realized that some people are just born lucky. I am not. Just last week I bought a used Chevy Impala. It had a forty-house money-back guarantee. I had owned fifty hours when it started leaking oil and the engine seized up. The dealer cut me no slack. I had the care towed to garage to get an estimate—Greasy Bill’s Automotive Repair.
I need a new engine. It will cost nearly what the car cost in the first place. So, I just bought another car—a 1999 Ford. This time I was sure to get a 1 year, 12,000 mile “wraparound” warranty.when the muffler fell off, they replaced it. They paid for the part. I payed for the labor—I had failed to read the warranty’s fine print. So, the muffler cost me $400.00. I was so angry at Honest Al (the use car dealer) I wanted to kill him, but I didn’t. I just let it go.
What can we do? Lawyer up? Hire thugs to do our dirty work? Arbitration? Let it slide? Who knows? Not me!
