10 Reasons You Don't Like It
(and why none of them matter)
How awful. It’s got to be a joke. It’s so obnoxious. It makes no sense. It’s this season’s hot, new thing. It’s confusing. It’s hideous. It saved that kid’s life. It’s got electrolytes. It’s a sign of the times.
You think it’s stupid, horrible, disgusting, tacky, and useless. And when it makes tons and tons of money, you’re going to be personally offended.
Here’s why you don’t like it:
1: It wasn’t made for you.
You’re not the target market.
Your personal experiences aren’t universal considerations, sorry.
Kyle’s opinions about the tampon packaging design alarmed his fellow focus group members. “That’s not, that’s just not…how they work. At all.”
2: It wasn’t made to suit your taste.
Other people like things you don’t.
And they’re not wrong; they’re just other people.
Instead of honking, Jerry sighed in disgust as he passed the girls wearing baggy clothes. Nobody cared about his boners anymore.
3: It doesn’t matter if you don’t like it.
Other people do.
And other people matter. Sorry.
Jennifer changed the channel. This material was uncalled for! What trash! It was OBSCENE! She changed the channel again. And again. And again. And again. Until she found some filth she secretly really, really liked.
4
It solves a problem you’ve never had before.
Abilities and knowledge categories aren’t equally distributed.
If you don’t need it, good for you.
Darren, never one to be lazy, always took the stairs—that is, until his stroke. The elevator was broken. He was trapped.
5
It's for people who are not like you.
Not everyone is like you.
Thank goodness.
Vernon thought everyone agreed with him, and spoke as if that were true, “What? Like you’d want your daughter to marry one?” His daughter had, in fact, married one. And he would never know.
6
It’s proof you’re not THAT important.
If you were, everything would be made just for you.
Sorry, should have been richer or something.
Gladys enjoyed her Soylent Green with three drops of Tabasco, as a treat.
7
You’re not at a point in your life where it matters.
Not everything is for everyone all the time.
Let people live in the moments they have.
Paul adjusted his reading glasses and snickered at the ad for adult diapers. But he’d snickered too hard. He screamed for his wife, who had died a decade before.
8
It’s speaking in a language you don’t understand.
Other people get it, though.
Maybe talk to some of them?
Curtis revved his Harley.
9
It was made without asking you.
You would have said no anyway.
So the world went around you, and now you are mad.
Chloe’s children took her keys after she parked her car in the middle of the food court. She never got to have any fun anymore.
10
It’s proof you haven’t kept up.
The future keeps happening.
Nobody’s young forever.
George asked ChatGPT how to open the PDF.