Three

Just how many times in the past week have you used the number three?  The
number three is regularly hated and ignored in everyday life.  Of course,
three is always ready to be used, but how often is it actually used?  
When NASA builds spacecraft, it sends two, never three.  I've heard of a
no. 2 pencil but not a no. 3 pencil.  Why are there two headlights on a
car and not three?  Automobiles with automatic transmissions go from first
gear to second gear to drive and sometimes to overdrive.  Why do they
label third gear as drive?  Because they want to neglect three!  Even
mathematics is cruel to the number three.  The squares of the numbers one
through 54 barely ever contain the digit three.  Nintendo originally made
two-player systems then later purposely skipped over three and made a
four-player system.  Soda pop makers are the worst; the only numbers they
know are 6, 12, and 24.  Why don't they make a 36-can case of soda?  
Fortunately, there are a few places left where you can still find the
number three, such as three ply trash bags or in the hours of a day. Three
has its very own hour twice a day--you can even have the time 3:33 twice a
day!  You can also cube numbers or you can take the cube root of numbers.  
Even some sound companies make systems with three speakers instead of four
or two.  Microsoft liked the number 3 for while (Windows 3.x and NT 3.x).  
But then like the evil company it is, it skipped to 95/98 for Windows and
4 for NT.  Please don't be evil and hate or ignore the number three.  
Fight to make everyone aware of the existence of the number 3!