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the science of crowd control

Friday, June 26, 2009

Commerce has its shrewd ways for crowd control. Let me share my theory. Pull a chair, sit down & hear me out. This is of utmost importance.

It will take you more than 120 seconds to separate the films of a 711 hotdog wrap.

The subliminal message encoded on there from retailer to consumer is that you have to labor for it. A hotdog sandwhich for a meagre 19 bucks… Man, you gotta stand there & prod the plastic sheets open for an eternity.

But it doesn’t end there. Somewhere, some higher intelligence is at work. This is actually crowd control 101. Only 2 cashiers and oh so many customers… Hmm… yeah, how bout we place this really impossible wraps for the hotdog, the siopao & even the doughnuts. Genius.

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a cross section of indecision soaked in formaldehyde

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

I’m uncertain. I’m sorry. I can’t even meet you halfway. I know it hurts you, but it hurts me even more knowing that I have so much but can give very little. Thank you for hanging around. I’m sure I’ll get to it some time. But there’s always the danger, always, the impending possibility of you getting tired. We all have our breaking points. Impatience will brim; and I, disabled and scarred, will get what I deserve. A thing I plausibly want in secret- solitude.

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