Weirdness

Friday, December 17, 2010

Wuss America

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/15/woman-sues-mcdonalds-over-happy-meals/?hpt=Sbin&hpt=C2

Wow!  What an astonishingly new and sinister process - companies using come-ons to get people to buy their product!  Who'd of thunk it?!?!  And Mommy is forced to repeatedly say "no" to her little snowflakes!!!  Shocking.  What torture!  Gee, I guess this means Cracker Jack can also be sued, and the breakfast cereal companies, and all those different sports and pop culture trading cards (luring you in with a Willie Mays card just to get you to chew on their cardboard-like gum...); and let's not forget all those old roadside diners of my youth who populated their tables with  cute little "think & do" place mats for kids to draw on as you choked down the meatloaf; and all the old Holiday Inns with those stupid vibrator beds that no sane adult would ever use, but which turned kids into quarter feeding junkies that would make a Vegas slot machine addict blanch in shame.  And what about the promotional cartoon drinking glasses that the jam companies would use: sticky sugar mud surrounded by images of the Flinstones?  And the various tiger-oriented toys you could get by nagging your parents into filling their gas tank at Esso stations.  Gosh, it must be tough to be a parent nowadays.  One actually is expected to work at it.  They actually have to say "no", and mean it.  Poor dears.  Now, you sue the company that forces you to be a responsible parent.  What a wuss world we now live in.  Can't say NO to Junior.  Of course, my folks did so effortlessly, but those were the days of iron men and wooden ships, I guess. 


(Thanks for the link, Mike!)

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