So, my building has installed video screens in the elevators that give us seemingly interesting and pertinent information regarding our world recently. I ask you this, what moron is so bereft of social contact and starved of news that they need to be entertained on their 1 minute elevator ride? We are not stupid her people, this is nothing but another way for advertisers to reach us where we live and work. Frankly, I am alternately disgusted and amused.
Let's start with the disgusted part of me. We're a first world country who has over half of our elementary school aged children participating in a federally assisted program so that they are assured the proper nutritional foods on a daily basis(WIC, if any of my reading audience was unaware). Therefore, in my mind, we have better ways to spend our money then on video monitors in highrise office buildings. Alas, no one asks me, do they? Not to mention how underpaid teachers are...don't EVEN GET ME STARTED!!! I am, of course mindful, that this is not "OUR" money, whoever put in these monitors is in the business of making money. Do I look stupid to you, rhetorical question.
Now my amusement is due to the fact that talking in the elevators has absolutely ceased to exist since these silly screens were installed. People are mesmerized by them. They will read ANYTHING on them, anything at all. Even that Macaulay Culkin is testifying in Michael Jackson's trial, exciting AND newsworthy huh?
Just my .02 cents dear audience.
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