Whenever I Go Shopping, I Think I See The Slow Decline of Humanity
What are we doing with all this stuff?
I had to run an errand at the local Smith’s store last night. I’m always kind of surprised to see what’s at the entrance. They keep a giant table at the entrance and it’s full of chips, sweets, and soda. Bags of chips in a giant disordered pile, as if to signify a great abundance, but zero nutrition. There is another equally disordered bag of sweets next to the pile of chips. The economy-size bottles of soda stand in a neat row around the table.
This is how they choose to greet us at the supermarket. And I know that people are buying tons of that stuff or they wouldn’t set it right there, as the first thing they think we’ll buy.
I needed to find a cold compress for the hand for my wife. She performs a very labor-intensive service at a local nail salon and that has been hard on her hands. So she sent me out to see what I could find. I looked around at Smiths in an aisle near the pharmacy, but I could not find what I was looking for.
I took my phone out to let her know by text. She had already sent me a picture of something she found and suggested that I go to Walmart. So off to Walmart I would go, but not before seeing all kinds of other stuff that I would not ordinarily buy on the way out…
