...we have reached the pinnacle of societal evolution much to the universe's chagrin.

But let me get back to that.

I was standing in the Sprint store and the response I got back on fixing the phone error was, "Um, yeah, I can't help you with this. You'll have to call them."

Me: "This is my only phone. How can I call tech support for trouble shooting on this when it specifically states I can't use this line if I call them?"

Sprint: "Well, we can't help you from the store."

Me: "Every time I've called that 800 number since I've had Sprint, for four years, I get hung up on."

Sprint: "Yeah, the 800 number sucks."



Driving back home, I started thinking ferocious and rude thoughts which eventually turned and morphed into the following:

Sentient life. It's a rare and amazing thing. Life itself even, from the smallest single celled organism to the most complex life form, is miraculous. The chance of life evolving in the universe is incredibly minute. The required conditions exacting and rare.

Earth forms, settles and begins the joy of creating an atmosphere from the single celled organisms that expel various chemicals. Oxygen is expelled from simple plant life. Plants expand from the ocean to the land and soon animals follow.

The Cambrian explosion is a magnificent time where innumerable unique and astounding forms of life evolve. It's as though life is dancing ecstatically through these incredibly limitless forms - stretching itself as it experiences existence.

Man.

After many dead-ends, man finally manages to scrap himself up from the muck and beget a humble existence.

Life, you see, was apparently still excited by all these creations and thought man was just as good. Little did Life know it had created the most abominable malformation known to the Earth and even the universe.

Life had created something capable of inventing accountants, concrete, convoluted egotistical psychological theorems, unending legal loop-holes, and hot dogs (perhaps the worst invention out of them all as it is a piece of intestine stuffed to the breaking point with random bits of leftover unidentifiable meat).

The pinnacle of evolution - as we have apparently named ourselves - and what do we show the universe in response? Life, sentient life, is so rare and we have taken that mind-boggling existence and given Earth....

Bills. Bills. Bills. Don't you think something is wrong when you end up needing a day planner to keep track of when all the bills are due (all inevitably at completely different times)?

Interest rates, due dates, rent, mortgage, credit cards, credit reports, lobbyists (sorry, couldn't resist that last one).

After millions of years of evolution...of trial and error...of extreme conditions and survival of the fittest we live on a world that glorifies bills, late fees, and contractual agreements.

Yah for humanity. What a way to suck the fun out of a once in a gazillion chance.