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People Are Such People
Why it is usually quite unnecessary to pay for entertainment when so much is provided freely by so many
One of the many charming consequences arising from every one of us being involuntary members of the species homo sapiens is that we are regularly treated to moments of unintentional humor by our fellow sapiens, albeit mostly humor of the head-shaking, deep-sigh-inducing, eye-rolling variety.
A friend of mine goes daily to a gym wherein she is exhorted to pick up a bottle of disinfectant fluid and assiduously employ it to clean whatever machine she wishes to use, both before and after engaging with said machine to perform her visually appealing exercises. In someone’s mind this doubtless passed for excellent hygiene theater of the sort so popular in our present days of comforting mass hysteria.
The problem, as anyone blessed with more than no functioning neurons in their frontal cortex would instantly perceive, is that the bottle of disinfectant fluid has thus been transformed into an ideal vector of transmission as it passes unwashed between countless hands during the course of each day.
This is, gentle reader, more than vaguely similar to sending multiple text message instructions on the topic of not reading text messages while driving, to people who are busily engaged in such aforesaid vehicular conduction.
