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     Change is something I find in my pockets or on the street.  At the end of the day, I empty my pockets of change or I find change in the bottom of the washer after I have washed it. Am I guilty of money laundering?
      I don't do well with change. Let me clarify that statement.  Money in the way of change is a good thing. Change in the way something is done such as a procedure is a bad thing.  I don't like to change the way I do things.  I would say that most people don't like change. I'm not saying that doing something faster is not better but why do we have to change what has been done for so many years?
     Numerous drink companies have changed their drink formulas, only to find that the buying public liked the drink just fine before the change.  All that money spent in test groups, development and improvements went down the drain. I can now drink water which has either been siphoned from a spring or pulled from the tap and filtered twenty seven times through dirty sweat socks. Water is not just water anymore. There is flavored, enriched, vitamin added and weight reducing water.
     I can drink energy drinks which leave my tongue blue, red, orange, black or numb. I can order a super-size meal which has more fat, sodium and calories than I would need in a week. Cars can go zero to supersonic in less time than it takes me to sip that boiling hot cup of flavored coffee which is about to spill into my lap because I am trying to drive, drink and change the radio to a different station.
     New drugs which cost lots of money a pill keep me alive longer.  Of course having a very good insurance plan helps me not have to pay the high price on the drugs. Better procedures for doing operations mean more money for the surgeons who are already getting  too much money. The better procedures mean the insurance companies don't have to pay for me to stay in the hospital  longer.  And the patient actually does benefit from having a shortened hospital stay.
     Since I work with computers at work, I hate that the computer companies deem it necessary to change their operating systems all the time.  Just when I have not learned an operating system, the companies decide that they need to change it.  Then I have to not forget how to use the system I never did understand and relearn on the new system which works a bit better than the old but still gives me grief.
     And if I do have a question about their system, I get some non English speaking technician named Bob who asks me what I did just before the screen went black. And then I spend twenty minutes to four weeks on the phone while Bob tells me to hold on while he checks on the problem.  When I have grown older, he gets back on the line and says his manager has never heard of  "this happening" and if this happens again, I should make a copy of the screen and all the key strokes I did leading up to the problem.
     And then Bob's manager gets on the line and thanks me in proper English for having called and that he values my business. Everyone values my business. Is anyone making my life easier?
      I think I will stick with the change I find on the curb.