Holiday weekend no-nos
I love the predictability of local news during the runup to the July 4th weekend. You'll always hear the same stories / advice:
1. Don't shoot off your own fireworks - it's illegal / too dry out!
2. It'll be hot, so stay cool!
2a. Turn on your air conditioners, old people, or else go someplace like the mall that's already air conditioned!
3. Boat safety!
4. Grill safety!
5. Grilling while boating safety!
6. Watch the kids while they're swimming!
7. Don't shoot your guns into the air! It's illegal / too dry out! (What we really mean: you're in America now, not your horrible homeland where that behavior is tolerated.)
You might even get a mention of the "summer driving season" and hear complaints about gas prices. Doesn't matter what the price is, if you take a camera crew to a gas station, within 5 minutes you can find someone to complain.
Either this is important information that we need to have drilled into our skulls year after year, or it's the result of a lazy news media during a typically slow part of the news year. If it's the former, can we find less obnoxious ways of communicating this to the people that need to know it? (Incidentally, how many times do we need to tell people not to do something that's already illegal?) If it's the latter, and we really don't need to add this "advice" to the background noise of our daily lives, let's agree to pick a grade when kids need to learn this, and do it then. That way the grownups can avoid having someone advise them to stay cool when it's hot outside.
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2 comments:
Maybe the way to make friends is to have your own blog with frequent, witty and well-written updates. The challenge is to attract readers who meet your demographic criteria and live locally, and then to convert them from internet friends to real life friends (which probably increases your chance of meeting bat shit crazy people).
Maybe you could take out an ad on Facebook for the blog that is targeted to local people (I think thats how their ads work). But then you have another problem: how much money are you willing to pay for a very indirect scheme to make friends via the internet? And who wants to be friends with someone who clicks on a Facebook ad?
Yeah, I'm thinking Facebook is overrated. Except if you want to see pictures of the kids of people you went to high school with. It's an extremely efficient delivery device for that sort of information.
Frequent, witty, and well-written, eh? Well, 0 - 2 out of 3 ain't bad on any given day. I'm thinking I need to focus on the "frequent" for now, and trust that witty and well-written will follow.
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