Oh, the things you hear.
I took a creative writing workshop a semester or two ago and my very lovely professor told us about found poems. Basically, it’s taking words or a phrase that you hear and turning it into poem. Well, dear readers, consider this a found blog.
I was at a fast food restaurant the other day on my lunch break with my friend and she was waiting for her chicken nuggets. As we were standing there, a teenaged-looking girl in a itty-bitty blue bikini gets out of her car from the drive through line and walks into the place. She pushes her way to the front towards the counter and very angrily shouts, “You forgot my chicken nuggets! I got 2 nuggets and you gave me sauce but no nuggets.”
It’s happened to us all before. Fine. It’s frustrating. Fine.
Meanwhile, back at the drive-through, traffic has backed up. The manager comes out and tells her she can’t just leave her empty car in the way. She must move. She gets very, very irate at this point, storms out cursing her mother and drives away. Everyone kind of exhaled and I was clinging to my soda for dear life. I looked at my friend and we both started laughing…
…until she walked in again. She hadn’t forgotten the nuggets. The manager came out again and asked what her problem was. “My problem is I ain’t got no nuggets!” The manager said okay and went to get her some. At this point, she turns around to me and says, “This is why people get shot. They wonder why someone can get so angry and shoot someone. Trying to take my nuggets. Shoo.”
No. I’m not joking.
I smiled politely and said nothing. And I left without really giving it another thought until today when I passed by that fast food place again. It made me think about the microwave society we live in today. I can’t count how many times I’ve been sitting in my air conditioned car, waiting for my food to be brought to me through a convenient window and complained about the wait… which if you think about your average drive through, is only ever a few minutes long. Our desire to have it all and have it at lightening speeds has created an impatient society. I worked at a call center so I’ve experienced it first hand. People would complain about waiting on the line for 25 minutes, and when you glance at the phone system it’s been no more than 4.
I think life loses importance when we get so impatient. We expect everything from those who serve us, and forget our own faults. We want our nuggets, without ever stopping to think that if we were in that situation, we’d probably forget a nugget or two from time to time. We get angry at long wait times or traffic or slow internet without thinking about how much importance we are giving to trivial things.
Will someone really shoot up a fast food restaurant for some chicken nuggets?
A quick google search is pretty interesting.
Just a thought.
god IS a baloney MYTH as OLD as MAN
it will one day happen....some inbred dumbass will pop a cap in someones ass who didnt bring they there whopper/bigmac/bucket etc...fast enough.....why? because these inbred vacancies of society are protected by the rest of us!
It is time society started throwin the toaster back in the bathtub! You killed 2 people ....goodnight! zzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaapppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!! You raped someone....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaapppppppppppppppp criminals deserver to be put down...you are found guilty? send em to Texas where they will actually take care of this losers ass!
I will be starting college next month, and I don't know when, but I know I'm going to be taking a creative writing class, so I'm glad I read this blog. On that note, I know what you mean.
Not too long ago, May I think it was, we had this Cherry Blossom Festival. Let's just say, the weather ended up sucking and everyone was crammed into McDonald's, most people in line to get hot drinks or food. There were so many people angry and shouting it was a little disorienting. It surprised me since you would think they'd understand that there would be a wait since it was so packed and there wasn't even room to move in there, but whatever.
Society is impatient, and if we could all just learn to be glad we got food at all, (without any foreign bodies in it, no less,) than society would be a lot more tolerable.
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My creative writing course was excellent so I hope you enjoy yours. And speaking of starting college, wait until you have to enter a college bookstore... At least the 3-4 campuses I've attended, the first week or two of the semester is nuts. You think there would be some understanding. Not quite...
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175,000 search results. Sure most of them cover the same incidents, but still. That is a lot of shootings just because of impatience and over reaction. It is kinda scary actually that so many loose cannons surround rational society.
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We really are too impatient. In this technological world where everything comes to us faster and faster, we can't even wait a few minutes for something to happen. Prime example: The Internet. At school, the wireless Internet is very fast. At home though, we've got dial-up and it's plain frustrating to go on the Internet because it seems to take an eternity to load a page. It does take a while, but considering that 7 years ago I would have been fine with that loading speed, it really makes me think about how impatient I, and the rest of the world, have become.
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I think people need to relax and just take their time at things. To shoot up a restaurant because you didn't get you nuggest to me is just lunatic. How could anyone think to do such a thing? Things that seem so small add up. I wonder when did people stop taking their time to look up at the clouds in the sky.