Ugh! It’s getting colder out. I can already feel my nose running and getting red. The way my bones feel frost-bitten and the endless chill that seems to begin in September and doesn’t end until June. The autumn clothing is wonderful, the colors on the trees are amazing, the cider and donuts are delicious but I have been swooned by the sun and it’s warmth.
What’s with people always coming over to sit by me when I have purposely snuck off to a corner of a coffee shop to write and think!! Why do they see a girl over in the corner happily enjoying some peace and lug their family of five right next to me and then proceed to talk the ENTIRE time while I get pegged in the head with food by their toddler?
Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of people in this world who want a voice? We all have this innate desire to be heard. I guess that is why reality TV has taken over the airwaves. We all think we are the most interesting story. When really, there is nothing new under the sun. People are much more interesting when they don’t know they are being watched.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when I ask someone a question, send a text, call or reach out and they don’t answer back. It really gets me to the core! How hard is it to reply?! No one is THAT busy that they can’t take one second to answer a question or send a witty antidote. It’s just plain rude! And disrespectful. I usually punish them for the next three days for that kind of behavior. Most of the time it makes me feel better but its not necessary, if people had manners none of this would get out of hand. I really can’t stand passive aggressive people. I would rather someone tell me to my face what they dislike and give me a chance to rebuff or fix it, rather than spend days trying to figure out what could possibly gone wrong.
I will just get it out there. I hate to wait. I really do not like standing in line, or sitting in traffic or watching the time pass. It stresses me out! I mean seriously expressways are built w/o traffic lights and stop signs so how in the world is it possible that randomly I find myself at a stop or a slow crawl? Unless there is an accident and the road is closed off, who is the moron up ahead that decided to stop? Often times it will be stopped and slow crawling and then randomly it will start moving again normally for no reason. Was there a possum on the road that was just too cute to drive past? I mean WHAT IN THE WORLD?! It’s an expressway people, we are on it because it’s supposed to move.
As I sit here the day before we all head back to work I can’t help but think about my alarm clock that will inevitably be tormenting me tomorrow morning and I wonder. Who decided that work should start at the crack of dawn? Who put the hours to the work day and why? How come we all can’t just put in our eight hours as we please? Some days I’ll start at 7am and some days I may not roll in till 11am. Who cares as long as the work is done. Why does everyone have to be so uptight? You can’t even go to the bathroom without someone noticing you aren’t at your desk. Who decided this was suitable rules for human society? Why can’t we all be given the responsibilities to manage our own time? Maybe some people would finally grow up if they were treated like adults in the work place. Everyone is on a friggin’ power trip.
So I walk into the cell phone store the other day and start looking at the regular phones. And it was like I was there to buy an ancient 1950′s wall unit. The world has gone smart phone mad! What a bunch of snobs, if you don’t have internet on your phone you aren’t a decent part of society. Well guess what you bunch of sheep, maybe I’d like to decide whether I want to pay $100 a month just so I can check my email in the toilet. Technology advancement should not be pushed on us, we should get to decide if the advancement actually brings value to our lives not just blindly follow because we want to fit in!! So yeah so what I decided to get a smart phone with the internet but I did it because I wanted to!
Which brings me back to the phone thing. You can’t go anywhere w/o seeing someone walking around with their phone glued to their hands. People walk through the stores staring down at a phone. It’s like why are you out anywhere if all you are going to do is stare at your phone? Look around people!! There is a whole world out here that is not fit to a screen. Not to mention put the phone away when you are out with friends or on dates. Girls are horrible at this! I did not come out to see you so you could sit there and play with your phone, text all your friends and sit and take phone calls while we are in the middle of a conversation. UNPLUG! Especially on dates, however guys seem to be way more respectful of this than girls are.
Sorry for the rant. Add your own if you would like.
Hey thanks for your input! And yes, you know they say that if we each threw our problems into a pile, we’d see the lot of them and end up taking our own back. I always thought that was an interesting perspective. Usually I don’t like to complain because truly, we all are lucky in our own ways. ;)
I absolutely agree with the phone thing. It’s very annoying when a person you’re talking to takes our his/her cell to read a text right in the middle of your sentence and when you expect him/her to respond, he/she gives a meaningless, stupid ‘hmm.’
And well….whereas you suffer peer pressure for a cool email-set cellphone, I hail from a society where every single public act has to be carefully considered, given the society’s knack for scrutinising individuals for their conformity to its stupid, stupid conventions! I’d call you lucky.