Since touching your face and picking your nose are big contributors to Covid infection, I’ve started using these beauties to pick...glide past the nose hairs, nice shape...

Edited to add: nice “booger” flicker - “boys, hey booyyyssss...come here, I need you a sec...”

.... *sirens blaring*.... RANT ALERT!... RANT ALERT!... RANT ALERT!.... *sirens slowly fade away*....

Okay, I've just got to get this shit out of my system. Been holding this in for several days now, and I guess this is as good a place as any to vent it and maybe relieve some pressure that has been slowly building. It's not enough that our collective governments are batshit crazy during this whole "Pandemic Crisis" ridiculousness, but I have observed many of my average fellow citizens over the past few weeks, and what I have seen makes me truly weep for humanity. Keep in mind, there are numerous little gripes I have here and there about odd-n-ends I see out in public and about things I hear on the radio and read on other information sites. And any one or two or these things on their own would normally be no big deal and hardly worth acknowledging. But when you are seeing and hearing it almost constantly every single day over a period of several months, and some of those annoying "little things" are gradually growing into larger and larger examples of complete lunacy.... well... *defeated sigh*... it simply makes one wonder, "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??????" Moreover, though, it makes me think, "What the FUCK is wrong with people???" Case in point.... (What follows is just one example of many...)

Cannot speak for other locations around the country/world, but around my neck of the woods people are no longer allowed inside any restaurants or fast food establishments. At the fast food establishments in particular, customers must now wait in line at the drive-thru service. A reasonable precaution and compromise, I suppose. No real problem with that as a whole, to be honest. (Never mind the fact, though, that this practice was not put into place until just a few short weeks ago.) Anyway, that is not really my gripe right now. No, my particular rant this evening is focused on a practice I have seen at several drive-thru's, and it absolutely BLOWS.... MY... MIND... *double face palm*.... I'm afraid that even typing it out here is going to send me into convulsions, while everybody else reading it will be going, "No way what he says is true. Tin-Man MUST BE making up that story. Sounds like complete bullshit." Honestly, I wish it was bullshit. However, I will leave it for you to judge for yourselves. Oh, and remember, this is not happening at just ONE particular fast food establishment. It is happening at many different ones over a very large area covering multiple cities/towns. Anyway....

Get in line at the drive-thru behind many other cars. Finally make your way to the menu/speaker to place your order. So far, so good. Looking toward the window where you pay and receive your order, you can see the cashier (wearing "protective" gloves, of course) receiving money from customers, giving them their change, handing them their drinks. Typical transaction so far, right? Then you see a serving tray emerge from the window with the customer's bagged order sitting on it, and the customer takes the bagged order from the tray and drives away. The serving tray disappears back inside the window. This same procedure takes place with the other cars in front of you until you finally find yourself at the window to pay for and receive your order. The same cashier (wearing the SAME gloves) tells you the total of your purchase. You hand the cashier your money directly to the outstretched gloved hand. Cashier places the money in the register and removes your change and hands it back to you directly with the same gloved hand. The drink you ordered is passed to you in the other gloved hand directly after you receive your change. After another moment or two of waiting, another worker brings your bag to the cashier who accepts it with the same gloved hands and places your order on a serving tray. The cashier then passes the tray out the window for you to take your order from it..... *corner of eye starting to twitch*..... I swear I feel like I just lost IQ points from having to type that.................................................................. What............................. the............... FUCK????? WHO comes up with that type of idiotic asinine moronic bullshit????? Seriously! Am I missing something here??? THIS is the GENIUS plan somebody came up with to prevent the spread of a reportedly highly contagious virus???? SHIIIIIIIIIIIT!... *shoulders slumping*.... *head hanging forward*.... *deeeeep sigh of relief*.... Okay.... I'm a little better now.... for the moment, at least.....

Understand, this is not meant to be aimed toward the workers themselves who are simply following orders from a higher source just to try to maintain employment to keep food on the tables for their families. No, this is aimed at those company owners/managers who actually said to themselves, "This sounds like a good idea." Again, I really do wish this was just another one of my sarcastic fabricated stories, but - much to my dismay - it is all too true. I think I'm gonna go have a drink now....