Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.
But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.
It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.
There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.