What's the Deal, Yo?

Has anyone else noticed the length of the average store receipt has spiraled out of control lately? Buying just a few items these days nets me a four-foot long receipt, cluttered with advertising and other crap that effectively buries the numerical figure essential to my financial record-keeping. Ridiculous waste of paper, if you ask me. I'm surprised stores aren't cutting back instead of steadily increasing the amount of register tape they use on a daily basis.

On a lighter note, the other day I visited a Subway sandwich shop in order to feed my near-unquenchable honey oat bread addiction (who cares what's actually on the bread, right?). Anyway, when the woman in line behind me was asked what kind of cheese she wanted on her sandwich, she replied, "Normal." I nearly laughed out loud. So, "American" is now equated with normalcy? Can't you just hear the new slogan of the radical right? "America: The New Normal." Now, everyone turn in your dark-skinned neighbors to the Department of Homeland Security before they attack!

I wouldn't be surprised to spot a plurality of those sadly ubiquitous "Support our troops" ribbons affixed to this woman's car, right next to her Bush/Cheney and "Jesus loves me" stickers. Hmm... judgmental much? I suppose. But that's typical human nature, isn't it? I'm simply exercising my right to be normal!

More Subway-related hilarity: when driving my regular route through town, I pass a large Subway billboard with the familiar logo and "Eat fresh" slogan beneath it. Motoring past yesterday, I noticed someone had gone to the great trouble of climbing the massive billboard to replace (using identical color and print style) the word "fresh" with the word "shit." Thanks for the chuckle, whoever you are.