Why ask Why?

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Why is it that...

• 7-11 stores are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, but still have door locks?
• A commuter taking a pee doesn't turn into a computer?
• A keyboard is called a keyboard, but it only has little buttons?
• A pear called a pear when there is only one?
• An orange an orange, but an apple is not a red?
• Apartments are called 'apart-ments' when they are stuck together?
• Aspirin comes in a child-proof container and bullets come in a cardboard box?
• Bananas grow upward and all other fruits grow downward?
• Boxing rings are square?
• Buildings are called 'buildings' even when they are already built?
• Cargo always goes in ships and shipment always goes by road.
• Cigarettes are sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
• Cornflakes and Sugar Frosted Flakes have the same calories per serving?
• Corn oil comes from corn, but baby oil doesn't come from babies?
• Fire fighters fight fire, crime fighters fight crime, but freedom fighters don't fight freedom?
• Football has such a name when you don't use your feet on the ball at all?
• Grass is always greener on the other side?
• How did the guy inventing cottage cheese know it was done?
• If a cow laughed, would milk come out of its nose?
• If a tin horn is made of tin, what is a foghorn made of?
• If jail and prison are synonymous, why aren't jailer and prisoner?
• If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?
• If people wait for the snowplow to come down the street before they can get to work every morning, how did the
• snowplough driver get to work?
• If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of Congress?
• If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
• It's a penny for your thoughts, yet everyone puts in their two cents worth?
• Men have nipples?
• Mr. Mobius never seems to see more than one side to any question?
• People have noses that run and feet that smell?
• Sheep don't shrink when it rains?
• Teflon sticks to the pan if nothing is supposed to stick to Teflon?
• The word 'phonetic' is not spelled the way it sounds?
• There are floatation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
• There are interstate highways in Hawaii?
• There are locks on the doors of 24-hour stores?
• There is an expiration date on sour cream?
• There is a Permanent Press setting on an iron if it does not work?
• They put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
• Tiny-sized candy bars are called 'Fun Sized', when they aren't very fun at all.
• Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left?
• We play at a recital and recite at a play?
• When an alarm sounds, they say that "the alarm is going off"?
• When a man talks dirty to a women, it's sexual harassment; but when a woman talks dirty to a man, it's
• $3.95 a minute?
• Wise guy and wise man mean entirely different things.
• Women call it a "permanent"?
• You cannot find fresh sardines in a fish market?
• You first chop a tree down, and then chop it up?
• You drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?
• You have a hot-water heater when you don't need to heat hot water?
• You need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?
• You never see the headline..."Psychic Wins Lottery"?
• You wear a pair of panties, but only one bra?