3 extraordinary 21st century things today
(Man…the Cold War, now those were the days!):
! On the way home from the basketball game tonight, we got a call from mother-in-law who, although a retired restaurant owner, now works in a hotel lobby to supplement her income. On a celebratory whim, she & her co-workers, who came in on their own time with decorations they brought from their homes, spent the afternoon decorating the lobby to warm it up with a BIT OF THE OL’ Christmas charm. Afterwards they drank coffee by the fireplace and shared a moment of solidarity & warm friendlies. That was until the desk manager, after having spoken to the corporate office, called them over to inform them that corporate wants it all taken down. For sake of political correctness, it is franchise policy to show NO religious affiliation.
@ On the way home from the basketball game tonight, we saw a lady with a graying bouffant haircut driving a big ol’ Oldsmobile with a cigarette in one hand and a cell phone in the other! Driving 55 on a country road, in the dark, with her chubby l’il aged knees. I looked back one more time, at one point just for the helovit, & she was drinking coffee as well as smoking & yakking on the phone!
So it’s ‘politically incorrect’ for a batch of employees, with their hearts in all the right places, to spend they’re own time & earned income decorating a lobby full of festive ornaments. But it’s perfectly okay for some senseless driver to scald herself, spilling a cup of coffee while driving. Then file a lawsuit against Wendy’s for not having a label on the cup that reads: Warning, Contents hot. It is unsafe to simultaneously smoke, talk on a cell phone, and operate a motor vehicle while drinking hot coffee at 55 miles per hour on a poorly lit country road in the snow.
# On the way home from the basketball game tonight, we stopped to pickup orange juice & ice cream. Came to $7.50 + the king’s ransom for a half a gallon of ice cream and a half a gallon of orange juice. For a heck of a lot of folks, that’s an hour’s wage [gross]. So in many cases, one hour out of a person’s life is worth 128 FL OZ. An hour out of a minimum wage employee’s life isn’t even worth that.
Happy Chanukah.
