In
no exact order here’s my day of rage on the many things I am sick and tired of:
1.
Busy
stores, like Starbucks, that are understaffed – or staffed with sloooow or
incompetent people which have no sense of urgency or ability to help me.
2.
The morons who insist on providing exact change at a counter to pay, often
holding up a line so they can scratch their asses to find a penny and turn
their pockets inside out to get the nickel they just knew they had but somehow
managed to misplace while I rot away on line watching their idiocy play itself
out.
3.
Product
pushes during a five-second lapse in action during a sporting event, whether on
TV or radio by announcers that have to seamlessly discuss a product as if
reciting statistics of a player in some natural or expected way when it’s
anything but.
4.
Reality
shows. They are all the same. One prototype and the rest copy it. They are scripted, manipulated, and paced
just so with stupid background music that tells you all that is unfolding
before you is fake drama.
5.
Weak
denials or promises by Facebook and Google about privacy protections, hacked
data, juiced searches, and false data.
Their commitment to truth and to serve their customers rings hollow and
simply doesn'tsound sincere.
6.
President
Donald J. Trump, whether by impeachment, resignation, or an election, may he go
away forever and soon. I can’t listen to
him speak. Every word, utterance and
tweet that he types or talks makes me want to set my hair on fire.
7.
Gun
nuts who won’t compromise on real reforms, from banning military-style weapons
to comprehensive background checks to confiscating guns of the mentally
imbalanced.
8.
PC
progressives who killed free speech on campus and want to neuter our language
to the point we don’t have words to actually describe what we mean and feel.
9.
Both
political parties. They are fully
corrupt machines of egomaniacs who sell the nation out to keep themselves in
power. Blow it all up and start over.
10.
The
Electoral College. Get rid of it. Majority rules, plain and simple. One person, one vote. We are all Americans, regardless of the state
we live in. We don’t need middle-man
delegates to cast a vote that corresponds to voters (assuming they feel
inclined to do so).
11.
Cable
News. One is worse than the other,
primarily because they don’t cover news – they shade it and seek to interpret
it or push an agenda. They just share
opinions. Useless. Give me news – and cover something other than
the sport of politics, please.
12.
Motorcyclists. They rarely observe the law. Forget about crazy speeding. They weave in and out of lanes – no signals –
and they ride in between lanes at high speeds.
They are noisy too. Not a fan.
13.
Cities
that allow the homeless to take over and leave streets in fear, a nasty stench,
and a decayed look need to stop letting the inmates run the asylum. It’s not a crime to be homeless but they need
help. Send in
therapists, doctors, food pantries, and resources to keep them clean and safe –
but do not let them take ownership of the city.
14.
Noisy
tech users who fail to silence their stupid phone. Stop making loud calls in closed public
areas. Watch your videos with headphones.
I don’t want to hear your shit – and you don’t need to hear mine.
15.
Amazon. I know they sell you everything you can dream
of, at a discount, with same-day delivery, but they are putting everyone out
of business with predatory pricing, a robot labor force, and a raping of tax
credit dollars from cities desperately catering to them.
16.
Car
dealers of any location, brand, or model.
They just don’t approach the customer with honesty and seek to throw in
BS charges and product claims that don’t hold up.
17.
Death. It might be welcome someday, when everyone
around me is gone and my body or mind is giving out, but right now, I hate
death. But I’m at the age where parents
die and childhood movie or athlete stars are dropping dead. Sigh.
When did I start recognizing so many people in the obituaries?
18.
Walking
into a public bathroom stall where the last pig did not flush -- or left the seat
wet. Sometimes the scene looks like a
murder took place. The stench of baboon
usually goes hand in hand with such a sight.
19.
Entitled,
whiny Millennials and self-absorbed Generation Z’ers. Not all of them are bad.
Two of them are my kids. But how did two
generations get raised to think everything before them is wrong while not
feeling able to fix anything?
20.
Ubers
that fail to show up especially when you are heading to an airport or on a
time-sensitive mission. They are killing
cabs and still losing money. I hope they
go under.
Geeze,
this didn’t take long to fill up a list of 20 random pet peeves. You probably have your own list and no doubt
we could jack this up to 100 in no time.
Then again, there are beautiful places, great people, amazing animals,
and wonderful things to treasure in life, including books. Life is not all bad, but it was cathartic to
pen this list. Thanks for listening.
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