Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 13, 2012
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Frazz: You're even later today. Did you forget to re-program your coffee machine again? Mrs. Olsen: No. I reset it in the wrong direction and had to wait even longer for my coffee. Girl: Wow. How many ways can she screw this up? Frazz: A rhetorical question, I assume. Girl: No I want to know if I need to come in on time tomorrow.
Unfortunately, we’re at the opposite end of the spectrum from the Chinese collective mentality. Ask ANY American to inconvenience themselves even slightly (as a national time zone would do for at least 1/4 of the population), and you open up a s***storm of biblical proportions.