I had to go to Radio Shack over the weekend, to buy parts to hook up our TV in our recently renovated basement. We had miles of speaker wire, but for some reason, no sound was coming out of the speakers (and the TV is so old that it has no internal speakers, so no speakers = no sound). I brought our receiver and a small sample of our speaker wire to Radio Shack, and asked the clerk what I needed to connect the two properly. Within a few minutes, she produced some red and black ends to attach to the end of the speaker wire so we could plug them in, rather than delicately winding the bare wires around some screws in the back of the receiver. She then returned to the rack of parts, without saying anything.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Finding you another option."
"Won't those red and black end things work?"
"Yes. But I wanted to find you another option."
This was totally confusing to me. The red and black ends cost only a few dollars, and they would work. Why would I want another option?
And that is when I remembered, from my
Happiness Project reading, that I was a
satisficer.
