Picture yourself in the morning drive-through at McDonalds. A pleasant voiced McD's employee takes your order. Once ordered, she asks, "Is that everything?" ... She then prefaces your grand total with an interesting disclaimer: "If you order is correct, your total is ..." IF?! What do you mean IF? There should be no if in fast food. Now I'm sure she was innocently trying to direct my attention to the large electronic readout of my order where I could verify the accuracy of my order, but too many people have had too many orders turn out wrong for any fast food employee to say the words "If your order is correct." After a statement like that, I almost expect the person at the second window to say, "Here's your bag of food. If your order is not correct, don't complain; you had your chance to make sure it was accurate." Hmm. What would happen if we all lived by that rule of "IF?" -- Nic/Rants, Raves & Random Thoughts."

DFO: That would be a nice cop-out in the news biz. We could say: Here's what happened "if" the cop report is accurate. Or our source was shooting straight. Then, if you believe everything you read in the newspaper, we'd all be satisfied.

Question: If we lived by the rule of "if," what would your world be like?

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