The Great American Lie: “Convenience”

Let me tell you something that should make you pause.
Because sometimes the absurd exposes the truth better than a sermon.

This year I did what most people are doing now...ordered almost everything online. Packages stacked at the door like quiet little soldiers of convenience. 📦
While scrolling through travel gear one morning, I stumbled onto something that made me stop cold.

A “personal urinal.”

Yes. A plastic bag designed for adults to pee in while they keep moving. Now before anyone gets sensitive....

The marketing photos show people smiling like they’ve discovered the cure for cancer. One even shows a horse casually unloading into the thing from a distance like it’s some Olympic event. 🐎

Apparently the liquid turns into gel.

You shake it.

Flip it.

Congratulations… modern civilization.

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But what really caught my attention wasn’t the product.It was the review.

A woman proudly explaining she bought it because she drives seventy miles to work and “doesn’t have time to pull over and walk into a restroom.”

Let that sink in.

Not cannot.

Not physically unable.

Doesn’t have time.

So the solution?

Unroll the bag.
Position it.
And go.

Right there.

While life keeps moving.

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Now imagine the reality.

Driving 65 miles an hour. 🚗 Digging through a purse like a raccoon in a trash can. Lipstick rolls out. Phone slides under the seat. You’re steering with a knee while wrestling denim and dignity at the same time. Then comes the moment of truth. Bag meets biology. Meanwhile a semi-truck driver pulls up beside you wondering why you look like you’re performing a Cirque du Soleil routine in the driver’s seat. But don’t worry.

Convenience.

That’s what we call it.

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Now to be fair. there are two groups who might actually need this contraption.

People who are bedridden and physically can’t reach a bathroom.

And that infamous astronaut who once drove across the country wearing an adult diaper because jealousy and poor decisions make strange travel companions. 🚀

Frankly, that woman missed an opportunity.

Apparently the market already had a solution waiting.

A bag.

A promise.

And the illusion that dignity survives inside plastic packaging.

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Here’s the truth.

Convenience is not always progress.

Sometimes it’s just disguised madness wrapped in good marketing.

And every once in a while the internet hands you a product so ridiculous it forces you to ask the real question:

How fast are we trying to run through life…
that we won’t even stop to pee anymore? 💥