Man's Folly

If you live in a warm climate and spend a lot of time in the sun, especially near an ocean or a lake where you go swimming or boating often, you likely will develop a tan unless you use a product that specifically inhibits it. But many people think being tan is cool, signalling to others a life of leisure funded by deep pockets, and so they opt for getting the look of a tan even if they are as poor as a church mouse and live nowhere near water and in fact don't even own a bathing suit.

This sort of tan is popularized by spray-on products, or even tanning beds which are found in tanning salons, often in suburban strip malls, where you pay money to look like you went to a beach in Aruba, or maybe a cruise through the Greek isles. It's hard to understand what motivates such people to use such products. Don't they realize that they can get as tan as they want but they will still die someday, and possibly sooner rather than later if they give themselves skin cancer? This is why I put fake tans on the list I like to call Examples of Man's Folly. It's a long list. Following is just a part of it:

Halloween costumes for dogs and cats
Starbucks "coffee" drinks with more than 1,000 calories
Botox injections
Commercials in movie theaters (Hey, we already paid to get in.)
Football players getting concussions and still playing
Transgender genital mutilation surgery 
The "Fat Acceptance" movement
Chewing gum that contains sugar
Purposely inhaling poisons (smoking cigarettes and cigars, vaping) 
Owning a pit bull when you have children
Taking selfies on the edge of a cliff and falling off and dying
Fake breast and butt implants 
Dressing twins and triplets alike
Expensive weddings where guests eat the money you need for essentials
Death Row (Just get it over with) 
Texting someone "Happy Birthday"
Vanity license plates
Lying to yourself