What is it about us humans that drives us to take a great invention and make it worse?
Take the ‘spork’ – half fork, half spoon. Did mankind really need to streamline the eating utensil process to the point where we couldn’t handle using different implements to stuff our face?
Forks are great. They hold the food down while you cut it, or stab the food so you can pick it up and eat it. Spoons have that nice concave shape that cradles your favourite soup or pudding. Beautiful and simple. Then someone ‘Frankensteined’ them together.
Now fast-food restaurants have made the messy, guilty pleasure of eating crappy food and turned it into a horrible sport. To save a couple of cents per thousand on spoons, they came up with a blasphemous cross-breed utensil that doesn’t fork OR spoon well.
What they maybe didn’t calculate is the huge increase in paper towel costs because of this bastardization of two perfectly working eating utensils.
About the only winners in this failed experiment are the seagulls hovering around outside as your ‘spork’ tries in vain to spear your french fries.
Seagulls probably LOVE sporks!
Don’t even get me started on trying to eat soup with a spork…maybe dry cleaners like sporks as much as the seagulls.
This planet was just not made for ‘multi’ tools. There’s an order to nature that we just need to stop trying to mess with. Everything has a purpose and when we combine more than one together, we end up with less than the sum of their parts.
How about sofa beds? Same thing – they took two perfectly working pieces of household furniture and turned them into something awful.
They’re uncomfortable as hell as a couch, and is there ANYONE on this planet who thinks they’re a great idea for a bed after spending the night on one?
I guess if you don’t have a spare bedroom, you might consider one, but I can guarantee that you won’t have any long-term guests with that torture tool sitting in your living room.
It’s like multi-tasking. Anyone who tells you they can multi task is a liar! All they do is more than one thing really badly.
I know – my wife calls while I’m typing. I can’t do both even though I think I can. She knows when I’m doing something else while talking to her on the phone, too. She’ll ask about what we’re going to have for dinner and I say “Sure – sounds good“. Huhh?
So, next time someone tells you they can multi task, stab them with a spork!
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