"Am I the only person on the planet that thinks the Beetles kind of sucked?" Steve asked rather loudly to no one in particular only moments after Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band had begun to play from the stadium loudspeakers. His opinion did not appear to be widely shared by the large crowd as many had begun to cheer and dance the moment they recognized the tune. They sung along raucously to the well known lyrics, clapping and smilin as they sang. Joe looked at Steve, his face a mixture of disdain and irritation "I doubt you are the only asshole out there who thinks that Steve, but there can't be very many."
Steve was nonplussed by Joe's reply and continued, even more loudly now so he could be heard over the noise of the crowd. "And what's the deal with that weirdo lady Yoko Ono? Was she some sort of artist or just like a random groupie or something. That chick was freaky looking. She must have been a hell cat in the sack or something to land what's his face as her man. "By what's his face you are referring to John Lennon I assume? A man many consider one of the greatest or maybe even the greatest singer songwriters in human history." "Yeah, that what's his face, the dude that wore those dumbass wire rimmed glasses, and was always talking some hippie dippie bullshit about peace and love and all that crap."
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"You're crazy Tim. Nobody designs products intentionally to fail. With the amount of competition out there it would be suicidal for any business. Why would anyone do that?" Tim lowered his head slightly and frowned, paused a moment to gather his thoughts, then replied. "Greed brother. You are so naive, think about it. How many tubes of caulk have you had to throw away and replace because after you used it once, there was no easy way to seal the tube back up, and it completely dried out? In Mexico every tube of caulk comes with a plastic replaceable cap, completely solves the problem at virtually zero cost. The exact same caulk in the States, no cap." Joe looked at Tim a look of obvious confusion on his face. "So?" "Without that cap the caulk dries out in the tube after one or two uses and needs to be replaced which sells more caulk. In Mexico the caulk never dries out, and the entire tube gets used. Less caulk is sold overall and a lot less waste. A win win for the consumer and the environment, but not as much profit for the caulk manufacturers. That is just one example out of hundred I could give you. So many technical problems related to storage and stability have been solved but solutions are never implemented because it means things last longer and so less of them are sold." Joe looked at Tim and smiled as he said "You are crazy man."
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Steve doesn't seem like a decent human being, lol. Loved your word and story!
Nice microfiction 🧡😉📝