Nice Things and Why We Can't Have Them

Let’s imagine that you, reader, are a janitor, working at a university for several months. While you’re cleaning one of the science labs, you hear an annoying beeping coming from one of the freezers. Upon inspecting where the freezer is plugged in, you see that a safety lock box has been placed around the plug and socket. “THIS FREEZER IS BEEPING AS IT IS UNDER REPAIR. PLEASE DO NOT MOVE OR UNPLUG IT. NO CLEANING REQUIRED IN THIS AREA. YOU CAN PRESS THE ALARM/TEST MUTE BUTTON FOR 5-10 SECONDS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MUTE THE SOUND.” How would you feel, if you were in that situation? What if you hadn’t had breakfast that morning? Well, if you were one of the janitors working at Troy University, you would ignore that warning, travel over to the circuit breaker, and manually shut it down. We can make a few inferences about the kind of person that did this. They are the sort of person that feels annoyed by repetitive beeping noises. They are the sort of person that understands how to operate

Let’s imagine that you, reader, are a janitor, working at a university for several months. While you’re cleaning one of the science labs, you hear an annoying beeping coming from one of the freezers. Upon inspecting where the freezer is plugged in, you see that a safety lock box has been placed around the plug and socket. “THIS FREEZER IS BEEPING AS IT IS UNDER REPAIR. PLEASE DO NOT MOVE OR UNPLUG IT. NO CLEANING REQUIRED IN THIS AREA. YOU CAN PRESS THE ALARM/TEST MUTE BUTTON FOR 5-10 SECONDS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MUTE THE SOUND.” How would you feel, if you were in that situation? What if you h