It’s insane to see some of the crap people buy for their kids. I saw a woman in Target who was pushing a spoiled toddler around in her cart. He was throwing a hissy fit and she was feeding him chocolate chip cookies as a reward for being a shithead. He would scream, cry, stop and eat cookie. Scream, cry, stop and eat cookie. It was pathetic. Then there was a dad dressed like he had just come from the golf course with his two kids in tow. I was waiting for a cup of decaf coffee and watching him put his items up on the checkstand. Pepsi, Fanta, cookies, snack cakes, gummy stuff, white bread, chocolate bars. I did not see any sort of fruits or vegetables anywhere. It looked like he went through the store and said, “What can I get that will guarantee diabetes? That’s what I want.” As you can imagine, the kids were running around in total hyperactive mode. The girl finally resorted to jumping up and down like she was on a pogo stick while she screamed. There were two other women—a mom and a daughter—who looked like California Raisins. They had tanned themselves into another dimension. Kind of like the tanning mom that made the news who looked like Captain Caveman. The mom in particular was burnt to a crisp and had a face that would make a catcher’s mitt look smooth. The daughter was pushing around a son that looked like Lestat in comparison. He was a blonde haired, blue eyed boy with pasty skin. I’d been drinking water and was dying for a pee. They hogged the walkway and got in the damn way as they searched for the family bathroom. Once they understood that I wanted to get by them before I pissed myself, the mom looked at me and I felt like perhaps I would be turned to stone like beholding a Gorgon.
I read the following article on LI today:http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130428182758-38251380-a-tale-of-two-theories and I thought about how this part relates to relationships: “One glaring flaw in Marx’s theory was it did not take into account the law of diminishing marginal utility, which states the value to the customer declines with additional consumption of the good in question.” How often is that true? ‘Once something is obtainable and I get my fill of it, I am done with it.’ When I was in the process of selling my house, I was continually slapped in the face with the harsh truth that the price is what the market will bear, i.e. what is someone willing to pay for it. My house appraised for more than it sold for due to a number of factors, not the least of which was that the neighborhood had become overrun by renters doing sketchy things. One guy was running an amateur bodybuilding gym out of his garage, another lady was running an unlicensed daycare out of her house, a girl was known to the cops as a prostitute and drug user, kids would run wild at all hours of the day and night, etc. When you have a gem in the middle of Hell, there’s only so much you are going to accomplish. I am so glad I escaped and didn’t lose my shirt in the process. With the divorce rate being so high, it seems that people approach relationships as being a commodity with a value that declines with additional consumption. The new wears off and the other person grates on your nerves. Plus people change with age and circumstances. What is it that Outkast says . . . "Forever never seems that long until you're grown."
Exactly.
