The Last
our opinion: COLUMN
BY MARK BROWN
Word
Inconveniences and Annoyances (deja vu)
MARCH 2016
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
I
recently took a six-day-long business trip to the
Bahamas. But, this story has almost nothing to do with
the business I’m in, or the business people on the trip.
This story is about the dysfunctional nature of the general
public.
If you have started to think that life in Parker County gets a
little crazy, just get a far-ranging bunch of people traveling
away from their country. WOW.
Most of the folks I encountered in the Bahamas were on
vacations, expensive ones. I had the sneaking suspicion
that most of the vacationers were vacationing with the
express purpose of having fun. As I wrote this column, I
was sitting in a food court at the airport’s departure terminal inside security getting a snack prior to boarding. The
airlines tell you to be two hours early for international
flights, so I arrived three hours early. After going through
security and customs I have an hour and 35 minutes to
wait until boarding.
So, there I was sitting at a table having a quick snack
while the family seated at the next table has a massive
quarrel.
It seems the wife and the mother-in-law were not
happy with each other. I actually had the pleasure of
following this joyful vacationing family through the line at
the pizza slice restaurant, and the mother-in-law ordered a
slice of pepperoni pizza, but when the pizza lady put it in
the oven a single slice of pepperoni fell off — the wife and
the mother-in-law, argued about that monumental event
for about a minute. Then the mother-in-law insisted that
either the pizza slice people give her a new slice of pizza
or that they put an additional pepperoni on the existing
one.
They did that, took it out of the oven and placed a new
pepperoni on it. At this point, the wife said she was going
home by herself and left the line and all her food there,
the two kids started crying, the husband goes into shock,
and the mother-in-law is smiling. They finally ended up
at a table next to me and the v