great expectations and pensive plants

Today I learned that the washer we extracted from storage has a sticker on the back that says it sold for $680 back in 1998, but since we got it from the scratch and dent place, we only paid $470. It got a five year vacation sitting in storage, so I guess I expect it to last until 2028.

In other news, some plants avoid hurting their relatives, and this one parasitic one actually sniffs the air nearby to figure out which way to grow to reach the best host. Also, people have known that electrical signals travel between plant parts for something like 100 years, but apparently the whole idea that they could actually be doing anything has been carefully ignored.

I don't understand why you would ignore something like that unless you were afraid of what you'd learn.