Pot inc.
Have you ever been walking around a supermarket and you see those annoying cans of food with the pull tabs
that are supposed to be easier than a can opener, you know, like cans of
soft drink (come to think of it, cans of soft drink probably would have
been a better example, oh well lets run with the food can thing). I
really should have thought that first sentence out properly, oh well
next time. So picture those specific products (I will allow you, just
this once, to choose which particular product you picture, but next time
I'm taking over your thoughts and making you picture what product I am.
So enjoy your Freedom) and imagine you buy it, but on the way home a
very attractive member of the opposite sex is on the side of the road
signalling for help.
So you pull over and they say they have run
out of gas, stating they are in a hurry the ask if they could siphon
some out of your tank and you say yes. They thank you by giving you some
money and a can of coke. So you have less gas in your car but that
doesn't matter because you are almost home. You get home and find
yourself hungry for the food product of your choice (baked beans
maybe?). So you go to pull the top of the can of beans, but little do
you suspect that the manufacturers have actually made the pull tab
impossible pull up, you can not open it! So you sit around for a couple
of hours before you try again , but you just cant pull that damn tab up,
its "seems" like it glued to the lid. Finally with hunger eating at you
bowels you decide to drive to the store to buy an electric can opener.
After getting half way there you car starts to stop and you pull over
realising that in your hurry you forgot to buy more gas. Now you use you
mobile phone in peek hour to call the nearest petrol station, who put
you on hold for 20 minutes before telling you someone can deliver petrol
to you but it will cost double the price. Starving for the beans you so
desperately want you agree. A guy delivers the petrol and you pay the
outrageous price. So now you buy the electric can opener and go
home.
Sitting down at home you open the beans and heat them up, you
then take a mouth full. Wait a second, it is hot, so hot it starts
burning your mouth and you feel like acid is eating the inside of you
mouth. You grab the can of bean and read a label the says extra, extra,
extra hot baked beans. Swearing you picked up normal baked beans off the
supermarket shelf you go to the fridge to get a drink but mysteriously
ever drink in the fridge has gone, except the one you got from
helping that stranger earlier. You mouth searing with pain you grab the
can and try to get you finger under the pull
tab..........
Coincidence or major mega-corporation plot to bleed
you dry of money and dignity. Think it could not happen to you, think
again!
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