These days rage is all the…er..rage….in political “debate,” many blog posts, talk radio and cable screamfests, on the highways (in California if your middle finger is broken you have a “driving disability”), in airplanes with a new apparent national-hero flight attendents and now: among fast food customers.
Let’s call this one McNugget Rage.
Just watch this customer’s reaction when she is denied her dose of Chicken McNuggets:
(Imagine how upset she might get if she couldn’t get a corndog or a Slurpee…)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.