HOW TO USE IT

Sometimes I think that people are insulting others every time. I mean, I hate it when you buy such a stupid thing such as a pocket ashtray and even it has instructions divided into 4 points. The first one says that you must put the cigarette, still lighted, in the pocket ashtray (without crushing it). The second one orders you to close the pocket ashtray using the “push button”. The third point indicates you to make sure that the cigarette is put out before inserting the ashtray in your pocket. And the last one suggests that: “Once the ashtray is full, empty the cigarettes in a garbage can”. And to end in it is something written like “ the pocket ashtray can contain up to 5 cigarettes butts at the same time and the ashtray is intended to contain cigarette butts exclusively”.

Well, let’s stop for a minute, who doesn’t know that you should close the pocket ashtray once it is into it? Or are you going to let the cigarettes and the ash to spread all around your bag or wherever you put your pocket ashtray? Besides, due to the fact that the pocket ashtray can also contain 5 cigarettes, what happens if you put 6 into it? Will come someone to say you how wrong you are using the instructions that they told you? Or perhaps the pocket ashtray will disappear if it contains a number of cigarettes higher from 5? There is another funny thing that seems a joke, and that is when you read “Once the ashtray is full, empty the cigarettes[…]” and in that very moment you understand you don’t need to continue reading at all; may be because they have just called you an insulting name, “stupid, fool..” or whatever because they are sure that if they don’t tell you that you must empty something when it is full, you won’t do it (ladies and gentleman, we are not robots any more, we have feelings and habits to do things). And who doesn’t laugh at the thing of “cigarette butts exclusively”, let me consider it dear employee who writes that instructions, do you seriously believe that people who smoke grass joints is not going to buy a pocket ashtray because you have decided that point? All these reflexions make me laugh a lot, and I am sure that is thought by loads of people but we are not got used to say it.