What if There Was a Vaccine for Jerks
In an era of Sci-Fi movies peeking into the future, wouldn't it be off the charts incredible if medical science mixed up the perfect potion to tackle the world's most abundant problem? Jerks.
Imagine a world where dirtbag behavior, the endless parade of entitled individuals and Mr and Mrs Me-Gimme-Mine, plus their four kids, could be cured with a simple shot.
The mere thought of a vaccine that could curb snarky comments, temper tantrums, and egotistical monologues might seem too good to be true. But hey, we've put a man on the moon, so why not cure jerkiness?
Since we’re going to shoot for the moon and turn this whole thing into a new streaming channel called Utopian Vision, let’s see who would be eligible for the ultimate personality makeover?
Would it be based on a jerkometer scale?
A special selection committee analyzing butthead behavior?
We could make it into a game show where contestants debate “Who's Jerk Enough” to warrant the vaccine.
Better yet, let's just play it safe and go with the obvious choices.
Politicians, influencers, the idiot writing this article, the designer of the 737 Max or just that one person who cuts in line at the coffee shop every morning.
Now remember like any Big Pharma commercial this magical brew will come with a laundry list of side effects.
Contact your physician immediately if you experience more than four hours of any of the following.
Increased kindness, excessive niceness or an unexpected urge to hold doors open for everyone.
There's also the risk of extreme empathy causing people to actually listen to each other. The horror.
We should also consider the potential evolution of jerk behavior. Could this vaccine trigger a mutation in the jerk genome? Suddenly we have a new strain called dipstick varmint!
Could it be we have doomed us all and the jerks will inherit the earth?
Actually they wouldn't survive alone. They need someone to unleash the jerkiness onto.
Damn and I thought we were really on to something here!
I was almost looking forward to family get-togethers, running into that buffoon from accounting in the break room and only looking at one picture of other people's kids.
But the truth is, life would be boring without a few challenging characters to spice things up.
I could possibly go through withdrawal without having somebody singing along with the song on their headphones, wearing too much cologne, talking at the movies, not letting people off an elevator before they get on, or refusing to walk single file on a crowded sidewalk.
In the meantime, keep those fingers crossed. Who knows, maybe one day, a vaccine for difficult personalities will emerge from the misty depths of scientific discovery and make the world a much more harmonious place.
But until that day dawns, keep those witty comebacks and coping mechanisms at the ready, you're going to need them.
And of course, please remember to unleash civility responsibly.