thoughtful but ultimately foolish

in a local chain pharmacy, tethered to a shelving unit, there hangs a handheld magnifying glass. well, it's more of a plastic magnifying strip, but you get the idea; assist those with visual difficulties. a woman with cataracts probably wants to know what the fine print on her medication says.
printed along the side of the polyurethane zoom-in rectangle is a six-inch ruler divided into 1/16th inch increments. theoretically a good idea, but when you magnify something, it tends to look larger, which makes the measurement scale rather useless. totally useless. unnecessarily confusing. stupid. just plain stupid.

come on walgreens! you can do better than that.