Tuesday, March 10, 2009

An Important Message About Matters of the Self


"I've begun to notice an alarming trend at the workplace and that is the trend of not washing one's feet.  With the economy what it is, many people have opted out of directly washing their feet, instead letting the sudsy water from their washed bellies drip over their feet, and somehow deciding that that is clean enough. Well I'm here to tell you that I don't care what the DOW Jones Industrial average says-- Wash your damn feet.  Every evening when I shower and wash my hair, I take special care to slide my bar of ivory soap up and down the length of my feets, taking special care to wedge the bar between each of my toes in turn, and taking extra special care to grip it hard enough with my foot fist so that I can wriggle the soap bar around vigorously without it falling.  After doing so, I will dab a nice amount of Garnier Fructis conditioner onto the roof of the foot to make it smell nice.  Then I will dry the feet with a separate towel first, and the rest of my body second.  

Now, I know times are tough and getting tougher.  But if we can't hold fast to the few social courtesies that make us human, then we are liable to turn into the worst kind of ogres."

An Important Message About Snow




"Please stop putting your cigarettes out in the snow. Children play in the snow. When you put your cigarette out in the snow, you make it dangerous for children to play in it!

Snow is made up of hundreds of tiny water drops that have fallen and stuck to each other to form beautiful miniature mountains and hills of snow. When you put your cigarette out in the snow, you melt a lot of those droplets and you can create a hole in the snow and you can ruin it.  The only acceptable way to mess up the snow is by walking on it if you absolutely have to, but even this is frowned upon.

If you see someone putting their cigarette out in the snow, I hope you go up to them and say "The snow is not your ashtray, you know." Because I would. And I have.



You know...

 Most of us would never in a million years put out our cigarettes in artificial snow, so why then do I continue to see people putting their cigarettes out in the real snow without a second thought? 

It's something to think about. Please pass this message along to everyone you've met."

Prune Hamentashen

Tuesday, March 3, 2009