First of all: Boom! Two posts within 24 hours! Suck it interwebs, for Jordan DeBord's laziness truly can be overcome! Hazzah!
As for the point of this post, I came across an interesting little conundrum this evening as I settled in to the apartment for the night.
As many of you might have surmised, Atlanta--being in the Southeastern United States--is hotter than balls in mid-July! So, upon arriving at the apartment and putting away some stuff in my room, I decided I wanted a nice cool beverage from the refrigerator. I know you can already tell how difficult my life is from what I've described thus far, but bear in mind, dear Reader(s), things are about to get REAL!
So, I proceeded to my local icebox and withdrew the last bottled water from my assigned shelf. And what do I find?! Do I find the water to be cool and refreshing, ready to quench my thirst after a long day of driving to my girlfriend's apartment and taking a nap there for like an hour before watching That 70's Show and eating brownies she made for us?! NO! Instead, the water is frozen almost entirely throughout the bottle, and when I try to open it, what water remains unfrozen overflows out of the top!
What. The. Cuss.
Hopefully by this point, Reader(s), you have guessed that I'm not actually that disturbed by the fact that my water bottle is mostly frozen. But it does bring up an interesting point about what we members of a first world nation consider an issue. I don't intend to be all preachy and what not about how we're actually so fortunate and we need to consider what people in third world countries have to go through just to get a couple gallons of nasty polluted river water, but I wanted to ask you to consider what you are annoyed by in reference to the rest of the world next time you're coffee ends up burnt at Starbucks or your order at McDonald's gets messed up.
Thanks for reading.
Wendy's messes up my order, Jordan. Not McDonald's. Ergo, this post is of no relevance to me.
ReplyDeleteI have something to add to this that is somewhat off topic, but not too far fetched. In light of the Starbucks & Mcdonalds point you brought up, I would like to share a bit of information I received from a drove thru worker once, I must explain something first though. Americans have this ever so giving, hope to receive something attitude. I've never understood why I turn on K-love radio around Christmas time and they talk about how good it feels to "pay it forward" in the drive thru. I have often found this to seem quite stupid & not necessarily preaching any sort of message to the person behind you. I couldn't quite put my thumb on the real issue until I spoke with a drive thru worker about it once. She was very frustrated, almost to the point of exhaustion because some lady 4 cars in front of me decided to pay for the persons food behind her. She explained that it usually backed the line up for a huge chunk of time whenever someone does this (& this lady was apparently a regular at doing so) so there are a few points I'd like to say in regards to this:
ReplyDelete1. It upsets the whole drive thru process
2. The person behind you is not impoverished if they are in the drive thru as well
3. No message is really being preached to anyone besides annoyance
It is something to think about.
I was going to write "First world problems, man."
ReplyDeleteThen I read the last paragraph.
I was really close to linking to that video in this post, Chris.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2p5svFJ9cQ
So now I did. Done!