Seriously?

The cashier at the grocery store all day long takes cans and bread and meat and slides them along the scanner and puts them in a bag and then says how much to pay. The ticket-taker at the movie theater. Rip, “Two flights up.”  Rip, “Two flights up.” The doorman standing in the cold, opens the door, nods, closes the door. 

We all go through processes all day long. Regardless of what we do, a lot of what we do is repetitive. A friend told me the other day he hates going to he gym in winter because he has to take his shoes off to pull his sweat pants off and he hates walking to the gym in the cold in just shorts. It seems dumb and a waste of time. Like getting the mail when you know there’s a huge probability that there’s nothing interesting in the box. Or emptying the dishwasher. And yet we do it over and over again.

That’s what today felt like, listening to the arguments to overturn or uphold Proposition 8. Repetitive. I was listening to Ken Starr argue that the majority can take away inalienable rights. And I suddenly thought, “Seriously?” 

You get to that point where you do something over and over and over again. Or you hear something over and over and over again. And all of a sudden it dawns on you how inane it is. How stupid it is. After a while, you reach that point and you think, “Seriously?”