Hmmm... I hadn't intended to go with any type of "style" with my blog but I seem to be going that way. Oh well, I guess I just don't have that many insights that would give me more to write (which is why I am largely impotent when it comes to Facebook, too) Beggars can't be choosers, then..... On to more examples of society being doomed!
Today I have two. The first is a "coffee is hot"/ "here's your sign" type thing: Recently I bought a couple of small candles from Bath & Body Works. The candle is in a little glass jar with a plastic cover. The cover has 3 small holes so you can sample the candle's scent. The plastic cover also has printed on it "Please remove plastic cover before lighting candle." This makes me ask a few different things... 1. Who out there thinks plastic should ever be lit on fire in the first place? That is what a candle is for, after all. 2.The three little holes are not even over the wick. So how would one light the candle at all? (Although the image of someone trying to delicately thread a lit match into the hole and sideways to the wick is rather amusing....) and 3. WHY are we being polite to these people? Yeah I know we are a lawsuit happy society which is why there is a warning label on everything nowadays. I am a little surprised that water bottles don't make a point to inform you the contents may be wet. But nothing says we have to toss in the "please" and "thank you"s! I think it would be way awesomer if we could develop a way for the misused product to deliver a message afterwords instead of before. Like after you try to light the tropically scented candle and end up with the wonderful smell of burnt plastic instead the melted remains would twist themselves into words saying "well, what the heck did you expect moron?" I'm sure we have the technology.....
My second example: Recently we bought a container of juice. As with many food items oft consumed by kids, there was a game on the side of the carton. In this instance it was a word search. "Nothing wrong with that!" you say.... well you're wrong! It wasn't a word search but an abbreviation search- for texting abbreviations! Hey I am a fan of texting too. I don't have the phone glued to my hands but anything that allows me to talk without calling is fine by me (I've always had a weird anxiety inducing phobia about that.... even for stuff like ordering pizza or something. I know, I'm sad). But aren't social and grammatical skills deteriorating enough nowadays that we shouldn't encourage it at the breakfast table too? I grew up hearing you should eat a good breakfast before school to help wake up your brain and help you learn. Text lingo is fine for texting but when people start to think of it as real words then it has gone too far. One more thing for the list of "items my future children will roll their eyes at while thinking I'm being totally old fashioned and irrational about." Other stuff on there are things like 'reading an actual paper book' and 'playing outside.' Yeah, I know. I'm going to be the worst mom ever.
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