Rodent Regatta

For several years the ITEC trade show has come to Memphis. Never have I seen a group as confounded by the rat race in all my life. I’ve always thought of working trade show booths as equivalent to a public root canal without pain killers. However, today’s show reawakened me to the plight of the American worker.

I’ve never seen so many people who have absolutely no clue about why they have been put on this Earth. Every other booth served to fence off another person or people with a look of stark terror in their eyes. It was if each of them feared they’d be shot at dusk if the show wasn’t a success.

Ask a couple of them what a successful show entailed and they had no idea. Talk about meaning in life; trust me when I say that the ITEC show in Memphis proved to me beyond all uncertainty that people must find something bigger than themselves or some hot technology or the latest quota from their company to anchor their souls.