Entirely Erwin

What Has This World Come To?

Instead of going forward, human civilization is pulling a Santy and going in the wrong direction. Is it really possible to de-evolve? The way things are going, in a few years, brain cells are going to officially become endangered spieces (they're already endangered, but we're too stupid to realize it). We're all eventually going to become amoebas. Unfortunately, some people are already blobs, like Carl, the single-celled asexual.

Yah, it's gotten pretty bad. Whatever happened to basic social skills? I spent almost 2 hours in a seminar today at work on basically learning to become more appreciative. The sad thing? Right after this meeting on saying "thank you", a co-worker of mine received some recognition for doing a good job - and she couldn't even acknowledge the compliment. It's a friggin common courtesy to say thanks; we shouldn't have to sit through a 2 hour session on how to say it.

Then there's stories like the one below that make me realize that I give ourselves way too much credit. This person wins my fucktard of the day award:

COVINGTON, Ga. - A woman was caught trying to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at a Wal-Mart, and was later found with two more of the bills in her purse, police said. The United States Treasury does not make $1 million bills, but people can buy souvenirs of such a bill at some stores, police said. "It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this," Covington Police Chief Stacey Cotton said Tuesday. "People do crazy things all the time. I think it's just another example of some odd things that occur."

A clerk at the store immediately noticed the bill was fake when 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike handed it to her on Friday, Cotton said. Pike then tried to use two gift cards with only $2.32 of value on them to buy the merchandise, but when that didn't work she again asked if the clerk could cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store then called police. Pike, of Porterdale, was charged with forgery. There was no listing for her phone number in directory assistance, and she could not be reached for comment Tuesday.