Why Ask Why - 2

• Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
• Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
• Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
• Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
• Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
• You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
• Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
• You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance?
• Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

Two Women's Airplane Trip

Two women, one from the north and one from the south, are seated next to one another on a plane. "Where you flyin' to?" says the southern woman. The northern woman turns up her nose. "Don't you know you should NEVER end a sentence with a preposition?" The southern woman thinks about this for a second. "Where you flyin' to, bitch?"

An Emergency Landing

According to "The Australian," an airliner recently encountered severe vibration in flight. The captain decided to make an emergency landing, and switched on the seat belt sign. The vibration stopped immediately. A passenger emerged from a lavatory and explained that he had been jogging in place inside.