The Perfect World
When one is feeling as blue as I have been as of late, one becomes accutely aware of the imperfections present in one’s environment. Had I a better mood, I would shrug off these small imperfections with a smile and get on with whatever it was I was doing, but at the moment this is not the case. My latest bout of dissatisfaction, in large part born out of the extensive free time I now have has given rise to feelings of culture shock. I don’t think culture shock is quite the right term though because as frustrated as I am, I do think I would prefer to be somewhere in China than in Sydney although as time passes I suspect this sentiment might rapidly change. Rather I think cultural frustration would be a better description of what I am presently experiencing, and even that I suspect isn’t right because a lot of the things I am having issues with have little to do with culture.
So, how could things be better? Well, in the perfect world:
- The buttons in wordpress would impart meaningful information instead of del, ins, img, ul, ol, li, code, more etc.
- After going shopping my receipt would be put in one of the bags and my change handed to me.
- “Here this is a good dish, you will like it” would always be followed by a good dish.
- A menu would be located either at the door or outside the door of every restaurant.
- Waiting staff would be hired on their ability to notice and respond to requests made by diners.
- The word ‘penis’ would never appear in a menu.
- Subway stations would be surrounded by places worth going to or have transport links to such places.
- Subway stations would not be surrounded by (a) construction site(s).
- There would be no smokers.
- I would be paid to study Chinese.
- I would have time to finish my quests in Baldur’s Gate 2.
- I wouldn’t require more minerals.
- The Personals>Friends section of www.thatsbj.com would be filled with friend-material instead of meaningless diatribe such as this and this.
- The Settlers would be released on DS.
- All three elevators in my building would be running all the time.
- There would be an affordable supermarket near where I live.
- A haircut would take no more than fifteen minutes.
- People would always sit in the outermost chairs of the bus.
- The bread would not be sweetened.
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