One old timer’s opinion.
It seems like Subway is bent on establishing a different level of pride for their products, they keep drawing our attention to McDonald’s.
Some of our political candidates are exposing their weakness by trying to kick their opponent in the left ear. They evidently don’t have anything attractive to offer from their own platform.
I think a person in competition is like a young tree in the wind, constant challenges will help them grow stronger.
My advice is, “If you can’t shine brighter than your competitor on your own merits, you should simply step aside, into a shady spot and allow your efforts to rest.”

I think we’ve all experienced a similar incident that happened to us at one time or another.
“I used to be “brand new” sporting all the latest features with all the bells and whistles! Folks would actually go out of their way to come over and admire me. They’d keep chattering cute little nothings about “new rubber meeting the road” to each other as they pranced all around me. All that attention made me feel really good! Then suddenly one day, I didn’t change a thing, but everything around me changed drastically! TV ads boasted that the newest of the new have hit the dealers lots! “The 2007’s are here, come see all the latest features with all the bells and whistles!”
“I was shuffled way back into the farthest row, along with my other lowlife family. My glamour suddenly faded and I abruptly became much less valuable. Keep in mind, I still had the very upscale features to offer that I exhibited before, but my popularity had quickly faded into the past and had fallen completely out of the limelight. I felt like a dirty, darned sock that lost it’s sheen and glitter! My world suddenly fogged up with gloom, what do I need to do to clear the air and bounce back? Yes what, please?”
Meanwhile, while I’m bouncing back, what do they really do with the thousands of older new vehicles when the newest of the new hit the dealer‘s lots? They surly can’t sell them all can they? Couldn’t they perhaps give us each one? We could be proud of each gift and make it known. Then these older new vehicles wouldn‘t have to hide their fabulous features behind their skinny coats of paint and once again they could be proud to strut their stuff!

If you havn't heard this one before, it's a doozey for checking one's creative thinking skills!
I'm holdng two coins in my hand that total fifteen cents and one is not a nickle, what two coins are they?

What do you think, is this one too heavy to lift out and hold onto?
In service, in our refrigerator right now, is a perforated plastic bag with an airtight Ziploc top? Was the creative mind that hatched that design taking a nap? Or does the “quick zip” feature rate it’s inclusion in the design because of closure convenience, in spite of the air through design in the bag? Maybe we’re being guided by the average here. If you let some air in around the body of the bag and block the rest of it out on top of the bag, on the average, you should have a usable food storage container.
You stimulate the creative mind by thinking differently then the person next to you, especially when searching possible solutions to a problem. Discipline yourself to think the next level above identifying only two potential solutions to a problem. Deep in your mind’s shadows lies the third and possibly the fourth potential solutions! At first-light to a problem, two "no brainer" solutions generally pop up pretty easily for most of us, it’s that third one that keeps itself hidden deeper in the shadows of the creative mind. Can you manipulate your thoughts past a think tank full of holes with an airtight ziploc top? What is your think level, decaff, regular or high octane? The more you disturb the matter in your mind while searching for the third and fourth solutions, (problem solvers) the more energy will be stirred into your very being and you‘ll feel better! I dare you to try it

Officer to witness: “Can you please describe the accident in greater detail?”
Witness: “Oh officer, I’ve already told you more than I saw!”