Nowadays, it’s always something, isn’t ?

Take today.  I had some errands to run and decided to stop at Subway to get some sandwiches to take home.  Well, I have been to this particular shop two times before.  The first time I was there, I watched in horror, as the red haired white female clerk coughed all over the bread of the two young white female customers.  They, too, were horrified, but said nothing.  Fortunately the black female manager calls across to this spreader of disease to throw the bread away.  This girl, looked back and said, “Huh?”

I mean come ON!  Who does not know that a) it is beyond common courtesy to cover one’s mouth when coughing, b) that she has just spread her cold germs all over her gloved hands AND the customer’s bread! and c) this is the reason we have health codes and inspections!  As Will Smith so aptly says in Men in Black, “I mean, DAMN!”

The slovenly girl does so, still wearing those germ topped gloves, when the manager instructs her clueless self to go in the back.  Oh, the girl wasted no time going to the back and then out to the seating area, where she took a drink of her soda and wrapped up her own sandwich.

Meanwhile, the poor manager, who has to be a mother, etiquette coach, sandwich maker, AND manager, comes over, tosses that second loaf of bread in the trash and begins making the orders.

I am relieved as this woman begins to make my order, and as she does so, Red (I’m sure you know who I mean), shuffles back into the food area, puts her hand under the soap dispenser, where I could not discern whether or not she really got a dollop of soap, and holds her hand under the water, sort of rubbing her palms together slowly.  I don’t know about you all, but my momma made me WASH my hands, not rub them together.

Unfortunately for those behind me, Red began with the sandwich making again, all the while clueless.  The lack of care, concern, or motivation to work was clear in her eye.

I thanked the manager privately, informing her that I would have spoken up had she not.  She told me that she has to do this with several of her staff, and stated that Red had a baby.

Okay, so the point of all this ranting is this:  We wonder what the hell has happened to America, this is what has happened.

Where we were once a proud nation, proud to do a good job no matter what job it was, we have reduced ourselves to a society of people, who just do not care.  I am beginning to think that this is the norm rather than the exception.

I mean, with all the adults who have responsibilities on their shoulders who are out of professional work, who would be happy for the opportunity to work there and do a good job, we are forced to eat sandwiches made by someone who at best will spread her young child’s contagion to us!

Why????  Well we’ll address that another day.

Feel free to give your ideas on why we are in such a situation!