If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Eleventh Year of Publication
All opinions in the Digest are expressed solely by the Digester and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Why Not Travel Store, its owners, or its wonderful staff
May 24
A young man moves to California hoping for a fresh start. After settling in, he heads to a big box store looking for a job. The manager sizes him up and asks, "Do you have any sales experience?"
The young man, standing a little straighter, says, "Yeah, I was a salesman back home."
The manager nods, seemingly impressed. "All right, you start tomorrow. I'll check in after we close to see how you did.
The next day, the young man arrives bright and early, ready to take on his new role. However, by the time the store closes, he's exhausted, his feet aching from all the running around. The manager approaches him with a raised eyebrow, clearly expecting a dismal report. "How many customers bought something from you today?" the manager asks, crossing his arms.
The young man, wiping the sweat from his eyebrow, replies, "Just one."
"One? Just one?" The manager sounds almost insulted. "Our salespeople average 20 to 30 customers a day. What did you sell? A candy bar?"
The young man shifts nervously, but keeps his voice steady. "Actually, the sale was over $125,000."
The manager's jaw nearly drops to the floor. "Over $125,000? What in the world did you sell?"
With a casual shrug, the young man explains, "Well, first I sold him a fish hook, then a new fishing rod. I asked where he was going fishing, and he said down the coast, so I told him he'd need a boat. We went to the boat department, and I sold him a twin engine Boston Whaler. Then he mentioned his Honda Civic wouldn't pull the boat, so I took him to the automotive section and sold him an Expedition."
The manager is staring at him speechless. "So, a guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and a truck."
The young man shakes his head side to side. "No, no. He came in to buy tampons for his wife. I just told him, 'Dude, your weekend is shot. You might as well go fishing.’"
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1738 - John Wesley is converted, launching the Methodist movement, celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
1844 - Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" in the world's first telegraph message.
1883 - Brooklyn Bridge is opened by President Chester A. Arthur and NY Governor Grover Cleveland.
1941 - German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battlecruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, and 3 survive.
1976 - In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines.
1978 - American management consultant Marilyn Loden first coins the term "glass ceiling" to describe invisible career barriers for women.
1941: Everybody must get stoned. Folk singer Bob Dylan is having a birthday today.
Brother’s Day - He ain’t heavy Father, he’s my brother. Boys Town motto!!

I started writing The Digest in the third quarter of 2015. I was filling in as temporary General Manager until we could find a permanent one to take over the leadership of the store. I had some time on my hands and was kicking around how to fill it when I remembered an idea I saw in a hotel in Winslow, Az. called La Posada. (Wonderful hotel BTW) In the lobby, they had a chalk board and on it was some simple trivia that happened on that day as well as the weather forecast of sunny, hot, cold rainy or whatever the day was going to bring. I stole some of those ideas and came up with the WNTS Digest. As I was temporarily living at the time in Why, I would spend some time each morning putting together those trivia facts, weather, a cute Pet Picture of the Day from Freekibble.com and an ad hoc picture of something I talked about in the Digest. I would then print the two pages out and tack it to our Bulletin Board in front of the store. The two pictures to the left are from a copy of the Digest that was published in or around February 2016. Eventually we found a permanent GM and I went back to my home in Northern California. A few months later, I was asked to stand up a website for the store and because I didn’t need to be at the site, I was able to do my work in California. When designing the site, I wanted to incorporate the concepts of The Digest. It had paused publication when I moved and here was an opportunity to bring it back in electronic form.

So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ report is now the 'Current Weather' and is displayed as a widget on both the Home Page and The Digest. We kept Today in History, Born on this Day, Today is (national quirky holidays), moved Pet Picture of the Day to its’ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became “Why Nutts!!” and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a ‘Quote of the Day’ but transitioned that into ‘Joke of the Day’ after I felt that the quotes were getting to bizarre, even for me.
And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!
- Digester, 2025