Tell me why...

...bagels always come in packs of 5. It's an odd number (err... obviously...!) for a food serving. Either they're expecting a family of 5 to have one each, or there's always going to be one or two left over. Or something. Actually, I can't figure out what they're thinking.

...it's so much trouble to open a bank account. I'm wanting to open an additional current account with no overdraft facility, or even a cheque book, and I've got to give details of all my incomings and outgoings. I'm expecting to be turned down, which may or may not affect my credit rating. Perhaps that seems like a dodgy thing to do. Perhaps it makes me look like I'm trying to steal an identity, or launder money, or something.

...every other TV ad is for fragrance at the moment. Now I'm sure that fragrance is a popular Christmas gift, but does anyone really make a choice on the strength of a TV ad? If I had a man in my life and he looked like Matthew McConaughey and he was in the habit of taking his shirt off as soon as he walked in the room (just a sec... I need a bit of a lie down...) then perhaps I'd consider thinking about buying him whatever fragrance that ad is for... Or... Oh dear, I've forgotten my point...

...the Post Office is empty when I've allowed extra time, so I end up with 10 odd minutes to kill. In Addlestone. Where there are very few browsing opportunities available.

...I can't find my favourite set of Christmas lights when I only have one decorations box and they all come out and go in every year. Oh, hang on. I've just this second remembered that I stepped on them and broke them last year... Forget I asked that one...

Punctuation of the day... Ellipses...