Lifes imponderable questions

I was speaking to a customer yesterday who had booked a cruise with me a couple of weeks ago. He'd checked the price of the cruise yesterday out of curiosity, only to find the cabin grade he had booked had dropped in price by £50 per person. It wasn't a lot but it was annoying for him so I called the cruise line to see if they would honour the new price for him.
Surprise surprise they wouldn't!
My customer was a little disapointed but understood and wondered why a cruise always seemed to drop in price after he'd booked it.
"Oh well, just one of lifes imponderable questions I guess" , he said.

Well to cheer him and all you up on a Monday morning I thought I'd put together a list of other imponderable questions.......

1. Doesn't 'expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?

2. How come abbreviated is such a long word?
3. Is there another word for synonym?
4. What should you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
5. When two cars almost crash why do they call it a near miss? It sounds like a near hit to me.
6. Whose idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?
7. Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?
8.  Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
9. Why do "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
10. Why do you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?
11. Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
12. Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"?
13. Why isn't phonetics spelled the way it sounds?
14. Since the doctor always says to take two aspirins, why don't we just double their size?
15. Why is there only one Monopolies and Mergers Commission?

If you can think of any more feel free to add them below.

Happy cruising