02.12.13
Unusual info at the DMV
Yesterday I went to the DMV in Pasadena. If you’ve ever been to a DMV office in southern California without an appointment, you know there’s a lot of waiting.
Like many businesses, the DMV has put up flat tv screens to divert you. One runs the “DMV TV Network,” which made me laugh. It features little informational notes on good driving and traffic law interspersed with little quizzes like:
“Which of the following will wake you up best?”
A. energy drink
B. coffee
C. apple
The correct answer is … apple! DMV tv helpfully explains its natural sugars help the regulation of your energy level, which is fairly accurate.
Also, apples do not contain unnatural “chemicials [sic].”
Well, their hearts are in the right place.
Also displayed, weekend box office results.
Zero Dark Thirty, the movie about the hunt for bin Laden, has made $4 million, only twice as much as the already failed Sylvester Stallone gobbler, Bullet to the Head.
I’ve infrequently said Americans have no taste for movies from the endless war, no matter the hype associated with them.
Really, they no more want to see Zero Dark Thirty than Berliners wanted to see a movie called Stukas in 1942.
That’s justice, particularly in light of the news that bin Laden’s “Shooter” has been treated so poorly.
Believe it or not…
