I heard a guy on TV the other day say that the world was ‘basically divided into three types of people’.  

(This made me wonder what world he lived in, because in my world there seems to have been, oh, at least forty-seven types so far, and counting).

He further went on to say that these three distinct types could be identified solely by the way they behaved in traffic jams.

(Oooooh gawd, really ?. Well shucks, what’s next ... ‘Moon really IS made of cheese ‘?).

Apparently,  ‘Type 1’ people relax and put on the radio on to ‘wait it out’,  ‘Type 2’ people toot their horn and yell at the obstacle/s in frustration, and ‘Type 3’ people drive up footpaths (and in the wrong direction if necessary) just to ‘get moving again’.

Then he asked “Which type are YOU ?”.

(Which made me realise, I’m all of them, depending on exactly where I’m going and why. I avoid Type -3, though, excepting medical emergencies, but still, I’ve driven up a pavement when I had to).

Although initially annoyed with his 'diagnosis' (ie: I am ALL 3 types of person, which makes me sound like a personality pizza or something), as he further raved on, I realised that his silly theory could be applied to any number of things equally as boring, stupid and just plain irrelevant as a traffic jam.

Like a sugar bowl. (Yeah !. Intense !.).

Ahem, anyway, according to 'the' (aka 'my') ‘Theory of the Empty Sugar Bowl’, the world is divided into three types of people ...

‘Type 1’ people find the bowl empty and leave it that way. ‘Type 2’ people fill the bowl, but complain about it, and ‘Type 3’ people fill the bowl and don’t complain about it, but instead allow it to fester (along with other petty grievances) until they one day bludgeon you to death with a waffle iron.

So, which type are YOU ?