_{No way, really?}

Billboards❗️

_{I-40 East}

I do most of my sleeping in the dark, spend most of my awoken hours when it's not dark. I call the first meal of the day breakfast even if I don't feed myself til lunch. I do a lot of things with water: drink it, brush my teeth in it, shower, swim, plants. I wear sunglasses outside, eye glasses inside, dapper suits to weddings and board shorts at the beach. I wear my socks right side in commonly referred to as "inside out" (don't knock it'til you try it) and I've never worn'em on the outside of my shoes.

Shoes❗️

_DSW

Shoe store in America, one, they're everywhere. So big I took two pictures to capture it—most of it. They don't even sell socks! That many thousands of square feet under one roof and all they sell are thousands of rectangles under two feet and no coffee.

Coffee❗️

_Target

It wasn't until we lived abroad for two years I realized light, medium, and dark roast equals three not 4,135. That's not a grocery store, by the way, all that coffee's at a department store where parents take their children for school supplies. One aisle about 25 yards long with shelving stacked six feet high to accommodate enough coffee to make Tony Montana nervous and enough processed creamer to fill five industrial refrigerators.

_Kroger

Ever since right around here somewhere I've been taught to believe I want loads, more loads, truckloads, more truckloads, households and storage units full of shit I don't need. Judging by the number of semi trucks on the road in 2021, I'm not alone.

The other day my buddy said "we don't have any bills except regular bills and the RV payment plus wherever we park it." :rewind: 'Can you hear yourself?' That's how fucked up we are. He's convinced two grand a month means no bills.

I know people who pay two grand a month for one truck. Nobody drives beaters anymore, all the two grand beaters are rollin around in two grand installments.

Can't blame'em, look at their guidance. The US treasury sucks so bad at balancing a checkbook when someone mentions debt we sk-ski-skip the paragraph and miss the punchline.

Raise your hand if you think my government's a mess. 🤚🏻 So is yours. But at least yours didn't turn debt into a four letter word fuckin joke. My government convinced us two grand a month is nothing. They've been preparing me for the coffee aisle since infancy by spoon feeding me the baby food aisle. Of course there's a gazillion pairs of shoes under one roof, everyone knows 18 pairs not counting slippers and sandals is standard.

_{Slippers and sandals are standard, stipplers and sanders meh...}

Instructing me how to live by way of advertisement—manipulative bastards. Some elected, most selected, they make a buncha money and have powerful friends in powerful places so if that's how they want us to live our lives then dammit we will!

How'd that sound, convincing? I'm not convinced you'd pay attention if I:

Yes, abide by their rules, it's in your best interest. The same selected officials you didn't trust for shit two years ago are the same selected officials today, however, today we trust our faith in their hands. Today we navigate by illuminated billboards and collect an overwhelming amount of shit we don't need. Moreover we hesitate less, react more, ask no questions, and blindly follow the guidance of a buncha rich businessmen who celebrate holidays and weekends together like a pack of finely ground coffee beans.

It's No Accident

What's next, pricks? Injections? Hear me out. They've had celebrity endorsed Covid-19 vaccination centers on billboards around here since Machine Gun Kelly went Squirt Gun Karen.

There's enough conspiracies to make even the most faithful wary yet they're still lining up at the clinic like an instagram major the night before a new iPhone's released. I don't know enough about the vaccines ingredients to preach one way or the other but I do know one internet search claims mRNA does "permanently" alter your DNA and the very next link does not "permanently" alter your DNA.

I don't like the way they "quoted" permanently—mad science. That's enough for PuraDays to call time-out. The majority of us already formed an indisputable opinion anyway and you're right, I'm wrong or vice versa, so I'll just leave you with an indisputable fact.

Less than 100 years ago they said "cigarettes are just as pure as the water you drink".

_I-75