Of safety and towlettes
by James
Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:50
As this site is about rants I have a few of my own of which I
would like to share. Do the small things every bother any of you? I
recently went on a family vacation to Jamaica and while on the plane the
attendants gave the customary safety speech. While this in itself doesn't
bother me the fact that they think it necessary to mime how to put on a seat
belt does. Honestly, people if you can't figure out how to use the seat belt
you need to be getting help instead of going on a vacation. Also, after the
in flight meal I noticed that the on the towlette package that it had
instructions and a warning on it. This brought a few things to my mind, why
does a napkin need instructions and more importantly why does it need a
warning. The warning was and I quote, " This product is not intended to be
consumed, if ingestion occurs seek medical help." First, why in the world
would you eat the wet-nap. I mean who would think to themselves, " Damn that
meal was good, why I bet this napkin would taste just as good since I used
it to clean myself." And second why would you want to use a something from a
company that can take a paper towel and make it toxic? This made me think
to check other simple items and see what the had to say. On a bottle of
shampoo it says not for internal use, which is a shame because it is a good
substitute for ranch dressing. On the can of raid it states that you should
not spray raid in your eyes. Well my question is this, how else are you
going to get the roaches out of your eyes? Moving on, I went to the bank
yesterday and I noticed that on the drive-through sign there was brail.
This make me just a little curious. Why would a blind man need to use the
drive-through and what kind of establishment would buy a sign like that just
in case a blind man does indeed drive-through? Ok, well according to my
seeing-eye dog its time to go make my deposit so that's all for now.
"The Mick"
- In the words of Socrates, " I drank What?"
