How Are You?

I’m fine, thanks. I hope you are too. But if you’re not, any number of businesses in New York City will help you out. Take this one, for instance:

How much for a couple of hours of pride?

How much for a couple of hours? A lifetime supply?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Self-esteem low? No problem. Just buy or rent some “pride.” Send some to your friends, too. But if you use this company, check the destination carefully:

Destinations within the city are NOT covered.

Destinations within NYC are NOT covered. No peace of mind there!

This shipping company isn’t revealing which places have “peace of mind.” Can’t you just picture the conversation:

CUSTOMER: Please send this package to Los Angeles.

CLERK: Sorry. Too much anxiety there.

It could be, given the state of the world, that this company ships only to Bhutan, which is famous for measuring the “Gross National Happiness” of its people. Maybe they also cover a couple of communes left over from the Sixties.

Never fear. If you can’t send pride (or anything else) with that shipping company, try money:

Whose friends?

Whose friends?

Just a few questions first: Whose money is the app sending? To the bank’s friends? To your friends? How many of your friends? And what if you don’t have any friends at “a growing number of other banks”? Or any friends in your bank? Or any friends at all? Oh wait: Then you can rent some pride, realize that you’re actually quite popular, and zap fifty bucks through the app. Problem solved.

4 thoughts on “How Are You?

  1. Don yates

    Beautiful! (But bear in mind, the Bhutanese happiness is self-reported, and the king is not exactly tourist-friendly).

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    1. Geraldine Post author

      Good point. My first draft actually had the clerk suggesting San Francisco as an alternative to LA, but I decided that the tech companies were putting too much stress on SF.

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