Isn’t a picture worth a thousand words?

So what is going on here? Go ahead and give it a guess. It looks like some employee is filling a soda cup while a customer is waiting. You would be right, only that wouldn’t be the whole truth. Look at it again.

Notice anything else?

The employee is gloved. It’s December of 2020 and the Coronavirus is all around us.

Now here are some of the words that this picture is not conveying. The man is having the employee stop what he was doing at the register so he could wash his hands and then go over and fill up the cup for him as the customer isn’t allowed to ‘touch’ the fountain due to the virus. What’s wrong with that? The man wanted a 50/50 mix of diet coke and regular coke. You can’t purchase that on its own by buying a single bottle, I get it. When I was a youth, I would often go down to the local convenience store and mix a noxious squishy drink that consisted of mountain dew, Icee flavor of the month, and half the other flavors options available at the time.

I was 12 years old.

This man is 40+ years old.

This is corona time and this selfish prick just has to have his stupid indulgence at the expense of having the employee stop what he was doing to cater to his stupid fetish. Just order a bottle of something and don’t make this poor underpaid employee your personal bitch. Grow the F-up already.

You are a prick and are what is wrong with this country.

Were you able to figure all that out from the picture above? No, you needed the bigger picture. You needed to see beyond your own immediate need to have a 50/50 mix of just skimming the story and actually understanding it.

The electoral college was created because the founding fathers didn’t feel that the general populace wouldn’t truly understand who or what to vote for. Seeing this man, doing what he is doing, screams this.

Now I’m not saying one way we keep or abolish the electoral college so much as saying they understood just how stupid the general populace could be and thought this the best way to mitigate the damage we might cause. It’s not a perfect system but considering how imperfect each and every one of us is, things could be so much worse. We need to come up with a better system and while we are at it, stop being such selfish pricks and maybe, just maybe, think beyond ourselves and stop being such a Dwighthead.

Tootles all