Story from https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt (my thoughts follow):

For those of us who understand that the obvious is not
always the solution, and that the facts, no matter how implausible,
are still the facts ...

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:

"This is the second time I have written you, and I don't blame you
for not answering me, because I kind of sounded crazy, but it is a
fact that we have a tradition in our family of ice cream for dessert
after dinner each night. But the kind of ice cream varies so, every
night, after we've eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice
cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. It's
also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my
trips to the store have created a problem. [...]

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First published:
December 8th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/A57YTGLytFT6NaDJY/story-of-the-insane-problem-of-vanilla-ice-cream-causing-the

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