I write this from Bagel Nosh, a diner established in 1978 with red seats, regulars, and exclamation points on the menu. (Needless!) I squirted coffee into my Yeti mug from one of those five-gallon dispensers, poured a raw sugar packet (healthier?), half-half (sure it’s not 60/40?), and stirred with one of those wooden sticks made from an Orangutan’s home in a country where the US has established favorable trade agreements. I stirred, then tossed it into a cup that read USED, where it met its fellow sticks. One might call it a bundle of sticks… This is just one form of illogical waste I see in the name of “cleanliness.” Why? Because no one squirts coffee, sips, then adds sugar and half-half. Do you put on pants, then underwear? (If so, tell me more.) We share coffee from a single jug. Unity, togetherness. But we don’t share those wooden sticks. What gives? I want that Oranigutan to know that although I leveled hectares of jungle in the name of my last sip of coffee not being too sweet with sugar sediment, I used the shit out of it!
Okay, I’m back. I just refilled my coffee and stirred with a wooden stick from the USED pile. Step aside, Greta.
What are other areas of society we are illogically wasteful?
Right on.
In the vein of illogically wasteful;
at 33 minutes: the insanity of drinking a Coke.
Future Dreaming HD, David E. Martin; https://youtu.be/0Wmtjnp-7wg?si=-NNXWkJk99aNuKrn