Today's H.F.S.

(from today's Washington Post)
“One measure of VDOT's desperation over the weekend: It was hiring drivers off the street. One man who drives tour buses in the District showed up on Saturday, took a test on the spot and went right to work plowing snow. Such employ helped drive up the storm's cost; each driver was paid about $80 an hour.”

$80 an hour? HOLY FUCKING SHIT. For $80 an hour, they could have given me a beer hat and a gallon of hot chocolate and I would have urinated the snow away.

Are stories like this told solely to make unemployed people feel bad? No unemployed person wants to read “$80 an hour”, “off the street”, and "over the weekend" in the same paragraph. It’s like reading about an “All You Can Grab” sale at the jewelry store the day after. I feel like a chump. Maybe that’s the real reason rioters steal TVs and computers. Not out of greed or malice, but to avoid the sickening feeling of missing an opportunity.

Okay, it's probably greed. But that doesn't make me feel less chumpy.