I’m overhearing a conversation right now and really getting a lot of of my eavesdropping. There’s such a curiosity factor in listening in as you have an unadulterated view into someone else’s life.

A teenager is talking, I think to a non-custodial father, about how hard it is to make ends meet at seven dollars an hour. He lives at home and has a job at Subway. A the end of the summer if his band doesn’t make it he’ll go look for a factory job or “something” so he can make ten dollars an hour and that this seven dollar an hour stuff just isn’t going to work.
The other day my niece got a job at Burger King and is making $6.50 and hour. My last real job, a salaried position, averaged $8-10 an hour considering all the hours I had to put in and had amazing stress to boot. $6.50 for being a brain dead zombie doesn’t sound so bad.

I really wish I could link to one of my favorite Onion articles ever but it’s not on their website. But as is often the case with their writing just the headline is enough to get the gag, “Man tells girlfriend and rest of Starbucks, “things will be different this time. Really.” Eavesdropping is your best entertainment value. It’s free and is the best reality based programming out there.

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