pondering.

COLD BATHROOMS
I don’t see myself as a nitpicky person, but I definitely think there should be a standardized way to take care of a bathroom, and one of the central pillars of this ground-breaking set of regulations would be to keep public bathrooms COLD. I don’t know about you, but if I walk into a bathroom, I want it to feel clean (even if I know its not). And when a bathroom is HEATED and WARM, I cannot help but think of a germ-infested hotbed full of germs. That’s right, people, I used germ twice; my fury knows no bounds. But doesn’t everybody feel this way?

Bathrooms should be cool and utilitarian. I don’t need to be comfortable inside the stall; I just gotta do my business and go. I just gotta “go” and go.

COFFEEHOUSE NAPKINS
In the far, distant future when I have enormous amounts of money that I don’t need (please note that I’m being entirely sarcastic), I want to open a coffeehouse. And in that coffeehouse, everything – every cup, every table, every artwork – needs to be just right. And as I’ve been thinking about this off and on, one of these particular nuances needs to be the quality of the napkins. I have established two rules regarding coffeehouse napkins:

RULE#1: Coffeehouse napkins need to be soft. There are so many different uses for the typical napkin: wiping up spills, blowing your nose (b/c you’re not gonna want to purchase separate tissues for your customers), etc. And within the last week, due to my persistent cold, I have blown a tissue box and a half’s worth of tissues and I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude to Mission Coffee for supplying its customers with fantastic napkins for all their quirky needs.

HOWEVER, there’s an exception to every rule.

RULE#2: If you are going to disobey RULE#1, then your napkins need to be made of recycled material. Case in point: Starbucks. Their napkins are printed with messages that congratulate themselves on their “Green”-ness. If I needed to blow my nose and my nose wasn’t going to be comfortable, the coffeehouse needs to AT LEAST tell me that I am helping the environment (however misguided that may actually be) by doing so. And even then, the napkins still need to be slightly soft.

QT
And so, to quickly end this extended post (because I gotta do my take-home exam), I’ll just say this: Never discount the power of quality time with the Lord. 15 minutes sitting there peacefully in His presence is worth more than anything.

 

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