A SHORT SURVEY

Recently I stopped at a local hardware store and bought a couple of cans of spray paint to finish a little re-do job on our birdbaths. The $2.98 cans of paint now cost $7.98…like a lot of other stuff. When I got home about thirty minutes later I opened my laptop for a quick check of emails and I had one from the Hardware Store. It opened with, ‘How did we do? You recently bought some spray paint (it listed the colors) and (the cost) and asked me if I would take ‘A Short Survey’ on what I thought of the complete experience at the Hardware Store. They said it should only take a few minutes to answer the fifty-four questions about my purchase and it would really help to serve me better in the future.

OK, you know and I know this happens at every turn now after every purchase. I get this Short Survey message from the drugstore, the doctor’s visits, Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot, local restaurants, getting our car serviced, our local fruit stand, and everyone in between. (I don’t know if churches are sending out these Short Surveys or not)

After all the surveys, then everything gets a one-to-five star rating of some kind that is totally unverifiable, but is still rated by some star counter…somewhere.

I need recharged like a Tesla… so I’m off to the other side of the Pond for some Cuban Coffee and Roz’s Famous Sugar Cookies, which have a way of recharging the most frustrated Short Survey Taker who doesn’t take surveys.

“But let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these comes from the evil one.”
Jesus