Just like everyone else, I am a consumer. Everyone on the planet, at some point, has purchased and used some product or device, it’s only natural. And just like everyone else, I have had occasion to use a product past its usefulness, or more accurately, I have broken that product. Whether it is the leaky coffee pot I regularly bang against the microwave in my I’m-still-not-fully-awake state of being most mornings, or the phone charger that has fallen apart because I repeatedly pull it out of the wall by the cord in my haste.
And just like everyone else, I need to make that quintessential consumer decision: do I replace my broken item with an upgrade to a product that may be more suitable to the rigors of my go-go lifestyle (Ha!), or do I continue with the inexpensive product I am familiar with and “adjust my behavior?”
It reminds me of the Jerry Seinfeld joke about helmets: