Eternal Happiness My Ass
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Veronika Fevers
Veronika Fevers is a Detroit based freelance writer with a vast knowledge of the mundane....from music, to film, to coffee, organics and even an occasional serial killer tidbit. Her work is not for the ill stomached or the square minded. By Veronika Fevers
Published on 08/11/2007
Eternal Happiness My Ass
Michigan's economy sucks. With many of the Motor City's namesake companies cutting jobs due to sales decrease, many of it's residents are suffering. In fact most people I know are killing themselves working two full time jobs just to make ends meet. Debt, foreclosures, and people leaving state for better jobs or just a job is quite prevalant.
While driving to my mother-in-law's, (where I am currently residing ON HER ENCLOSED PORCH as I too have been hit by the effects of Michigan's economy hammer as it fell) I saw a sign on the side of the church on the corner of the block. The sign read "HELP WANTED: Sundays- 11:00 to 7:00 pm. I continued reading. On the bottom it said "Compensation= Eternal Happiness". At that point I wanted to jump out of my car, pull the damned sign off the church and shred it in the middle of the street. Eternal Happiness my ass. A pot to piss in I could work with. But "eternal happiness?!" I thought. When Christians are supposed to be the light in the sesspool that is sometimes refered to as society, I was enraged. I get less patronization in the welfare office.( those of you that have applied for state assistance know what I am saying) While I can appreciate the wit that whoever created the sign intended to imply, I can't help but realize that some things are tasteless. That happening to be one of them...especially as how they were probobally the ones that voted Republican.
While driving to my mother-in-law's, (where I am currently residing ON HER ENCLOSED PORCH as I too have been hit by the effects of Michigan's economy hammer as it fell) I saw a sign on the side of the church on the corner of the block. The sign read "HELP WANTED: Sundays- 11:00 to 7:00 pm. I continued reading. On the bottom it said "Compensation= Eternal Happiness". At that point I wanted to jump out of my car, pull the damned sign off the church and shred it in the middle of the street. Eternal Happiness my ass. A pot to piss in I could work with. But "eternal happiness?!" I thought. When Christians are supposed to be the light in the sesspool that is sometimes refered to as society, I was enraged. I get less patronization in the welfare office.( those of you that have applied for state assistance know what I am saying) While I can appreciate the wit that whoever created the sign intended to imply, I can't help but realize that some things are tasteless. That happening to be one of them...especially as how they were probobally the ones that voted Republican.