1.) Why can't they enforce the leash law?
Date: 4 November 1977
This question was raised by Carol who owns a female Gordon Setter that was in heat. Carol didn't want to breed her dog because she thought that the animal was too young. She was told to wait until the dog was two years old and that was what she was attempting to do. The problem arose when a big, black, male dog started to hang around the yard. It tried to get into the back yard a few times but was discouraged.
Carol found out that the black male dog lived across the street but she hasn't gone over to ask them if they would keep their dog on a leash.
Because of this male that was hanging around, anytime Carol let her dog out of the house she either watched it or locked it up in the dog house.
Carol also didn't bother to call the Humane Society to come pick up the lease law offender. She thought that there were so many strays that if it wasn't this dog it would be that dog that was wanting to get to her female.
2. Why can't they see the value of socialism?
Joel was discussing the political scene with Don in our living room on 6 November 1977.
The discussion started getting political while there was talk about television. Joel was saying that TV is controlling alot of people and that its business was making money instead of what is right. He continued, saying that the TV is owned by the wealthy and the government is run by the wealthy, that the people who are in control of the government are interested only in making money, and that things should be more socialistic.
1. "Why can't my wife, instead of putting the whole ring of keys in the dryer, just put the back door key?"
October 20, 1977, 7:20 A.M.
Joe was upset that his wife put the whole ring of keys in the dryer instead of just the back door key. He had been dropped off last night and his wife wasn't home. He had to go into the dryer to get the back door key. The reason that this upset him is that he has very poor eyesight and had to struggle to find the right key. He said that he has mentioned it to his wife and that she has taken the ring of keys out and left just the back door key.
2.) Why can't the express lane run the full length of Kalanianaole?
20 October 1977
Our car pool starts out in Kailua. We go the Waimanalo way to the university. There is an express lane for car pools of more than two and for buses that do not run the full length of Kalanianiole. When the third lane turns into a regular commuter traffic lane, the traffic becomes congested in that lane as it is for the other two lanes, usually the entire length of Kalanianaole.
The reason that they don't run the car pool lane all the way is that there is too much traffic going into Honolulu from the Niu valley area.
November 8, 1977
Article in near Abby in the Star-Bulletin.
"I read with pleasure the letters in your column from women who thought sex was overrated and said they were tired of "faking it" in the bedroom.
Its about time somebody told the truth about sex. I am a normal man and I don't go crazy over sex either, but I have to be careful where I make that statement.
Women are lucky they can "fake it" in the bedroom. We men have no choice. We have to "perform" in order to prove our "masculinity", and I, for one, am sick of it! Many times I have wished that I could say, "Not tonight, dear, I have a headache".
Women have no idea how much pressure we men are under. Care to comment? PRESSURED"
The reply went as follows:
"If you allow yourself to be "pressured" in order to preserve the "mucho macho" illusion, that's your problem. For my part, a man is just as entitled to have a "headache" as a woman. This, seemingly, would be a good example of peer pressure or the pressure directed by the norms of society via a stereotype. It doesn't sound like a very bright fellow.
October 20, 12:15 P.M. in Social Psychology class:
Mr. Jakobovits was asking, Why won't the Dean let me change the grades of students the next semester?" It was uncovered that only if a grade is an incomplete may it be changed after that semester. The problem was that a student did some extra credit work the next semester in order to raise his grade, but the Dean of Psychology wouldn't let the change go through. Dr. Jakobovits had no idea that this was the policy and the work was done before the Department's policy was known.
In sum, the different grumbles that people in the daily round have are an indication of a certain "level"? What the person is craving and wanting and wishing for tends to be that which is just out ahead of him in the motivational hierarchy. Focusing on this particular need indicates that all the lower needs have been satisfied, and it indicates that the needs which are still higher and beyond what the person is craving for have not yet come into the realm of possibility for him, so he doesn't even think about that? To complain about the garden programs in the city where I live, to have committees of women heatedly coming in and complaining that the rose gardens in the parks are not sufficiently cared for, is in itself a wonderful thing because it indicates the height of life at which the complainers are living. To complain about rose gardens means that your belly is full, that you have a proud roof over your head, that your furnace is working, that you're not afraid of assassination, that the police and fire departments work well, that the government is good, that the school system is good, that local politics are good, and many other preconditions are already satisfied. This is the point: the high-level complaint is not to be taken as simply like any other complaint; it must be used to indicate all the preconditions which have been satisfied in order to make the height of this complaint theoretically possible. "
Hence, there seems to be a high level of satisfaction among the people on my daily round. There wasn't any concern for housing or food, indicating that all were relatively satiated in those areas.