The Un-Thought-Out Side

I'm rather unable to disguise my distaste for stupid people. They waste time and resources pretending to be on par with the rest of the people in their field, or life, when really, they just can't compete. Now I'm not saying I don't have my stupid moments, I am blond, and everyone has them, but there is a big difference between have a dumb moment, and just plain not thinking things through...

Example: I just had to buy a new toilet brush. If you want to know the reason, I like my toilet clean, and toilet brushes get dirty rather quickly. If you want to know the science behind it, perform your own experiment. Anyways, I go to Target to find one of the cheapest brushes, thinking it can't be that expensive. Wrong! This was my stupid moment thinking that plastic bristles at the end of a sturdy plastic wand, along with the container to put the brush in (because toilet brushes are gross) would be more than $2.49. The cheapest one I found was close to $5, still not that bad, but the most expensive one was nearly $20!!

Ok, now apparently I'm out of the loop of toilet cleaning technology not to understand why I, let alone anyone in their right mind, would pay upwards of $20 for something to clean crap out of a toilet. But apparently, there are people that go for style and shiny plastic when it comes to cleaning their commode. I pour my mind over the options in front of me and finally select a modest brush and container combo at around $6.50.

When I get the brush, along with my other Target purchases, I notice something on the overly designed packaging for the toilet brush: New Space-Saving Corner Design!

Last time I checked, toilet brushes weren't the size of a desk. Even the $20 ones I saw at Target weren't that big of a space hog. Were they bigger than the one that I got? Sure, but not so much that they would be taking up too much space in the sole bathroom of my 1 bedroom apartment. But you know someone in Toilet-Brush Inc. thought that having it be a "space-saving design" would help sales, along with the blue cardboard packaging with all of the little details about the brush. Toilet-Brush Inc people need to remind themselves of one little detail: You make a product to clean poop out of a porcelain bowl. Not rocket science.

Now I'm not saying that the people who work with toilet brushes are dumb, I'm sure they are quite brilliant, But did anyone proof read the packaging before printing out hundreds of thousands of them for sale? The comments that they decided would help Joe-Schmo or Lady Liberty pick out a commode scrubber are rather idiotic. What's even more amazing is that the people who think of these slogans probably get paid more than double what I do. Next time I look for a job: Advertising.

The same lack of proof-reading is evident, unfortunately, in nearly 15% of the news articles that are posted online and printed in daily newspapers. Now I am pulling that percentage out of thin air, but I find at least 1 article a day when I read the news in the morning that has either a typo or a major lack of sentence structure. Now if your job is to give people the news in a coherent fashion, you better be able to read, spell, and compile a sentence. Common sense would be nice, being able to think is a good idea too...

Happy Reading, and Cleaning...