How DARE You

To the marketing geniuses at Burger King:

How DARE you give out free hand cleaner with every order (even just coffee) that disolves nail polish? Are you people mad? Do you know how much a manicure costs?
And here in Miami, home of the shallow and the vain, do you know how much it means to keep your manicure maintained?

So, yesterday, while the RLA and I were running around doing errands, I noticed that I had puppy schmutz under my nails. Knowing that I had those free BK hand wipes in the car, I opened one up and used it.

What a surprise to discover that my two-day-old manicure had the top coat dissolved right off, leaving me with pitted, matte nails on a few, but not all fingers.

I was livid.

But not so livid that I was unable to make the following observations about the drivers and driving rules in Miami.

  • The far left lane is now the designated "slow" lane. Where in my youth, I was taught it was the fast lane or the passing lane, it now seems to be where you drive if you are lost, unsure, under the influence of drugs, or simply can't bear to go above 25MPH.


  • The word "merge" in the merge lane means that the people in the lane you are trying to merge into are trying to make you merge into the guard rail.


  • Holiday spirit has come to mean a viciousness and meaness of spirit only dreamed of by Mr. Scrooge. People are ugly, irritated and irrational to degrees heretofor unseen in city known for its crabiness and bad driving.


    • But I have a puppy, and that makes everything better.
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    (3) Comments
    #1. Posted by Miss Bliss on December 22, 2004

    OK…I’m totally afraid of a hand cleaner that has that much acetone it.  I don’t think our hands need to be THAT damn clean.  If you use them too much your skin will probably start to peel off. 

    Sorry, I’ll stop now.

    #2. Posted by Solonor on December 22, 2004

    You have a puppy, and your hands are now more sterile than an operating room set up for a heart transplant. You can’t buy that kind of good fortune.

    Merry Christmas!

    #3. Posted by PunkAssBitch on December 22, 2004

    now that’s just SCARY! (about the hand cleaner, I mean)

    CONGRATS on the puppy!

    the holiday season brings out the beast in drivers everywhere…which makes me want to NEVER leave my house these days LOL.

    have some happy holidaze :)  see ya next year!

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