Hi everyone. A few days ago I heard on the news that an 83 year old woman from Queens, NY is suing Apple because she claimed that she broke her nose running into the glass wall of the Apple store. She claims that Apple was being negligent by allowing a glass wall to exist without proper warning. At the beginning of May, a woman in Chicago sued Starbucks for putting too much ice in her iced coffee. She claimed that Starbucks charged her for a 24 oz iced-coffee, but delivered 14 oz of coffee and 10 ounces of ice. Now call me stupid, but isn’t iced coffee supposed to contain ice? I am sure all of you remember the 1994 lawsuit in which a woman in New Mexico got almost $2.9 million when she sued McDonalds for serving coffee that was too hot. This woman put hot coffee in between her thighs and was trying to open the lid in order to add cream and sugar. But in the process, the coffee spilled and caused 3rd degree burns. Almost 20 years later, a LA woman sued McDonalds when she got burned by hot coffee. In fact this was parodied in a Seinfeld episode when Kramer sneaks in a cup of hot coffee into a movie theater and gets burned. Not to mention all the smokers suing the tobacco companies. Do you think their lawsuits have merits? I personally don’t think so. I think it is a way of playing the victim and blaming someone else for your actions. Or maybe it is a way to make a lot of money.  People want to find ways to make easy money. But there are other ways to make money. You can become an amazon affiliate and promote their products. You can you old stuff on ebay or craigslist. You can sell your services like tutoring, web design and such. I think these are ethical ways of making money. So I think we should stop playing the victim and take responsibility for our actions.