#13

It's everywhere! It surrounds us! You can't go anywhere to avoid it! It lives in the campground out in the woods. It thrives on city streets and freeways! People give up their lives for it! It will either help you or restrain and restrict you! Convenience is unavoidable. Not only is it everywhere we turn, but it has also become a necessity of life because of its influence in our upbringing. You can drive down the street and you see everything from your incredible abundance of drive-through restaurants and ten-minute oil changes to your odd- sounding, but time saving drive-through markets. The automobile itself has become one of, if not the most used item of modern convenience, ( maybe besides the microwave ) and at the same time one of our most inconveniencing. Convenience is so important to some people that they are the ones who install, or create the idea to install bathrooms and showers at campgrounds, a place where the idea is to go and " rough it. " The idea and importance of convenience has even been a reason to end one's life. It is convenient because of its quickness to end tough situations. My cousin recently used this excuse. Convenience is not a bad thing, it usually is for the best, but it appears that to modern humanity, the importance of convenience outweighs everything from how many leprechauns you see per day to life itself.

There are countless ( actually it is more convenient to just say countless than to actually count ) little household items that seem to be convenient until it wants to create havoc for us.

The most obvious is the remote control. Yes, that little device that has more buttons than a typewriter, and better disappearing acts than Houdini. Its main purpose is not to play hide-and-seek with, it's to remove the need to walk to the TV whenever something needs changing. The most recent wave of TV remote controls have so many " features " that the only one it needs now is a little voice to explain how it works. It is so much of a hassle yet people still buy the TV with the most intricate remote because it has more " features. " Then they won't try to understand how to use it and buy a universal remote to ease the searching for which button on which control does what!