A Muni moral quandary: Nail polish vs. BBQ cancer?
All the important issues of the day get their time under the glow of lights on Muni. All of them.
Muni rider Laura filled us in on the latest over on the Muni Diaries Facebook page:
“The setting: the 48 Quintara headed for Noe Valley. A passenger whips out her nail polish and begins a manicure next to my mom, who is deathly allergic to the stuff. Mom asks her, politely, to stop. The passenger ignores Mom and finishes her nails. But wait, there’s more: the driver, who is going off shift, strikes up a conversation with Ms. Manicure: he’s going to spend his vacay barbecuing red meat. The divine Ms. M goes off: BBQ is carcinogenic, she says. I ask you, gentle reader: what is more harmful, a BBQ or an aerosolized cocktail of formaldehyde, toluene, and dibutyl phthalate (DBP)? Just sayin’…”
You know the saying: It takes all types.
Photo by Paul Sullivan
Neither one but at least the bbq is easier to avoid.
You take your choice of “poison” and take your chances. In this case, one woman’s beauty treatment is another woman’s allergy. And one man’s (BBQ) meat is one woman’s poison.