Quick story.
Went to Target last night.
Looking for moth balls, a club for my new car and if they had it, was going to start pricing DVD burners on the off chance they'd have 'em.
I go to one of the stock boys and say, "Hey, you guys got moth balls?"
The guy turned to me and said, "yeah, they're over on isle E14"
So I find the mothballs, couldn't find a club, nor price DVD burners. But that guy that helped me...somehow I knew him.
It kept pestering me until I figured it out heading south on 35W past Washington.
He was a guy I remembered in college. Hung out at some of the same parties he was at. Didn't know much about him except he hung out with a REALLY liberal crowd. Him and his friends all worshipped Paul Wellstone and all majored in crap.
And that's the lesson. I'm 30 now. So is he. But I studied finance and economics. I think he majored in sociology or art history.
I don't work at Target as a stock boy.
He does.
At least I have respect for him in one respect...he didn't go into the public sector as a social worker, and is thus contributing more to GDP and society than his surely public sector putz counterparts.
Wonder how long it'll be until he votes Republican.
you may be making money, but you're just a cog in the system.
ReplyDeleteat least your stockboy buddy is enlightened in the evils of white men and how the patriarchal, capitalist, racist system has given all the money to greedy robots like you and kept him down
i never took sociology, but i've read some bell hooks and that seems to be what its all about
I shall help you out. Should you ever come into that inane argument (which I'm assuming you will in scenic U Conn) ask them how would that be possible when in a free-market where people are allowed to spend their money freely, why would they reward a greedy robot such as myself with more money.
ReplyDeleteThen look out for conspiracy theories about how corporations control everybody with marketing.
Ahhh, yes. Fun times those are.
maybe the stock boy was working his way through grad school to pay for his ph.d?
ReplyDeleteyeah, the argument usually goes that people are too dumb/brainwashed by advertising to realize where they spend their money so they must be controlled.
ReplyDeleteand yeah, the only sociology major i know plans on being...you guessed it...a professor.
Ask him what service to society a discipline is if it's only purpose is to produce people to reteach it to other people who will in turn teach it to other people.
ReplyDeleteCan you say "women's studies?"
if women's studies wasn't populated entirely with democrat lesbians, it might be interesting, or at the very least, a plausible premise for a porno.
ReplyDeleteoh--- Diane, don't get me wrong. I like the classic "tounge-in-groove" lesbian porno flick as much as the next gent- but the crazy lezzies who major in women's studies are about as erotic as a grizzly bear (no offense to your canadian readers- I'm in Michigan myself)
ReplyDeleteand... even if the lesbians were of the sexy, porno variety, the first mention of "social good" or "public welfare" would be enough to make me flaccid.
Apologies for stooping to the basest level of humour.