Probably fake. Entertains that itch for “karmic Justice”- falls apart under scrutiny. If you’ve ever gone to a drive through with multiple windows and accidentally driven by the pay window or order window- it messes them up- but they can just take your order and money at the last window. They usually will- and if they’re busy and already have plenty of food cooking preemptively- you might wait another 30 seconds? It could be longer- maybe they have you park and bring it to your car to keep the line moving- but if you’re irate and they gave your order to someone else- even if that person paid- they’d probably make it a priority to clean that mess up and get you out. Maybe even give you a comp or extra something.
If your child walks slowly, it does not mean she will be eaten alive.
Fairy tales are important to the mind, and these posts are millenial adults fairy tales :D
Very astute analysis. I appreciate the well phrased and insightful nature of the comment. Fairy tales are usually at their heart- part fantasy and part morality play. They reflect but also reinforce the morals of the culture which created them. We can see that in a story like the original Hansel and Gretel- there is famine in the village- the step mother chooses selfishness- to take the fathers children and happiness, and to condemn the kids to death- the witch lives in a house of food but does not share nor eat it- instead using that wealth to enjoy the excesses of eating children- both opulent as well as exploitive. The witch is killed and the step mother dies- and the father and children live happily ever after. Not quite realistic- but none the less showing both escapism and fulfilling a sense of justice.
Here we see an entitled and thoughtless person being robbed of their victory by an “agent of karma..” in part a power fantasy- reflective of both a general human desire for power and the powerlessness widely felt by a generation who has been robbed of opportunity by the entitlement and thoughtlessness of another. As I said- I’m not condemning the work- merely pointing out that it is most likely- as you say- a modern urban fairy tale.
Of course- in Hansel and Gretel we are given an actual child eating witch- a character you’d really have to dig in order to gain some sympathy for- you could craft a tragic backstory- make eating children a necessity of her existence much as vampires can be made sympathetic through a reluctant necessity to take blood- but we can’t easily look at the witch and say why she might not deserve her fate- or how Justice wasn’t served.
So I am saying that on analysis- we have perhaps a casual morality here. Did she honk on accident? Well... it DOES say she flipped them off. But... I have both done and see people- especially when flustered- attempt to raise a hand or give a finger V and cross mental wires or get their fingers caught over the wheel etc- and instead raise a middle finger. As a trick of perspective (the famous Prince Harry photo where from one angle he appears to be flipping a person off) it could all be a misunderstanding.
Of course- it could itself be a misunderstanding- and we don’t really know enough about the others persons day or life to say that while their behavior was rude of it happened exactly as said- that it perhaps wasn’t understandable based on what was going on in their life. We also know the person was “taking too long to order..” but we don’t know how long that was or why.
If you’re on your phone or something- spaced out and not paying attention- no cars in front of you- and we are sitting there for 3,5,10 minutes... wouldn’t you get upset? Wouldn’t the person writing it be the “bad guy?” So as far as fairy tales goes- this is an example where the story and its details don’t make the protagonist the de facto moral right- it is a sense of self righteousness or superiority that would cause us to sympathize with the protagonist. “Of course that women was wrong! How dare she have the gall to rush ME.. err. I mean the protagonist....”
Fairy tales are important to the mind, and these posts are millenial adults fairy tales :D