Polarity?

The other day at work was a study in dichotomy.

I had one call with a Creationist weaver to whom I had to explain how evolution works (and even worked in how that it might be part of God's plan and not necessarily the antithesis) and my next passenger was a Libertarian Wiccan to whom I had to explain smoking bans and assure him that the government was not going to take his guns away. There was something about aliens in there too.

Later I picked up a few women from one of the high-priced "dorms" and they were talking about and comparing their diamond watches. Immediately after, I picked up a woman on medical assistance with three kids who complained the whole way about her boyfriend, fifteen years her senior, who won't get a job and is extremely selfish and refuses to even help out with the kids, but she can't kick him out because she knows he would have to live on the street.

Slooooooowdoooowwwwwwn.

Talk about a gear shift: moving from Robert A. Heinlein's highly intellectual, bare-bones, philosophic novel to Dan Brown's pseudo-intellectual, travel-guide-with-a-plot, wealth-coveting, so-called conspiracy novel has given me whiplash.