A New Fan

I know that detractors of blogging find bloggers self-absorbed. Who really wants to know how they feel about anything and everything. It's enough that we live in an era where most people are concerned only about their own feelings and thoughts. There's no need to turn to the Internet to find more of such people that you already meet every day of your lives.

So here I am talking about my new fan. It's not so much that I got a new fan that's interesting to would-be readers. It's also not the fact that the new fan is a tower fan of the same make as the last one. Rather, it's the fact that the company in question, Europace, makes nice-looking fans but somehow fails to follow through by manufacturing equally decent remote controllers. The one that came with my new tower fan looks cheap and clumsy, and the cover feels like it's gonna give way any time.

Of course, my issue with the remote controller is minor next to larger world issues, such as global warming, growing income inequality and gruesome murders that litter the pages of our newspapers. But if we can't even get decent products that's meant to make our lives a bit easier, how can we expect that bigger issues stand a chance of being resolved! Of course, I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, but I do hope that common folks stand up for their rights and fight for what they deserve, which is not being pushed around by companies out to make a fast buck. Don't get me wrong. I'm not accusing the company in question of anything. I'm concerned that companies can go down the slippery slope of sloppiness very easily, and it's just a few steps away from selling us crappy things.

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