I do not suffer fools lightly.  They truly annoy me.  As an example, let me tell you about an incident I had with the phone company.  One morning I woke up and attempted to call my mother.  The phone was dead.  I used our second line to call the phone company and ask whatsup.  I knew the bill had been paid, and I was really confused about the missing dial tone.  The first question the “fool” at the phone company asked me was, “are you using that line to make this call?”  WTF?  I had already told her that the line I was reporting was dead, and in her absolute brilliance she determined that I had magically managed to call her on a phone that was inoperative.

Recently I was at Wal-Mart (where else?) and I picked up several bags of the Green Giant steamers and added them to my  cart.  The young lady who checked me out noticed the bags of veggies and said “are these good?”  I sincerely wanted to say “No.  I decided to spend $20 on crappy vegetables.”  Instead I told her that yes they were good and she should try them.  To which she replied, “I don’t really care for vegetables, except for french fries.”  Fine.  Then why did she care whether or not these veggies were good?   And why did she think I would purchase 10 bags of crap?  If you don’t like veggies don’t question why other people do like them.  Just accept it for what it is.

While driving home the other day I found myself in a two lane, left turn lane.  I was behind one other car in the outside lane.  The inside lane had several cars in it.  When the light turned green the car in front of me gunned it, put himself in the inside left turn lane, and went straight!  Horns went wild at the stupidity of this moron, and I still can’t believe I saw it.  This is a light where several accidents occur.  Mostly because people don’t recognize that a red light means stop.  They seem to feel that there is a 5 second rule after the red light.   However; when these same eager beavers are on the opposite side of the road, they believe green means start immediately and without regard to the fools running the red.  But this fool put stupidity on a whole new level.  I seriously thought about taking his license plate number and calling the cops…but I really didn’t think they would do anything.

I also live in a college town.  There are perks to living in a college town.  We are a community that lives based on our college students.  You can find shows, clothes, and all things Razorback.  They bring money into town and therefore help business. On the downside, we have thousands of new people unfamiliar with our traffic situation, young and invincible, and always in a hurry to get to class driving on our city streets.  Usually it gets better sometime after Christmas.  Don’t even think about shopping for anything for your home at the end of August.  They shop in droves for dorm room decorations.  They bring with them cranky parents who have already spent way too much money on their education, and who are now being hit up for decorating their itty-bitty rooms.  I got behind a mother-daughter team in Wal-Mart (where else?) who were arguing over the decor of the sorority house she was evidently being asked to join.  It seems the other people sharing the room with her had a lot of alcohol, and very specific posters.  The mother was doing her best to tell the poor young thing that she would be better off living in the dorm.  In this case, the mother was the fool.  In the first place, there is alcohol all over the campus.  To assume that she would alcohol free in her dorm room was insane.  Secondly, no girl who has been accepted to a sorority is going to live in a dorm.  It’s just not cool.  The final straw was when the mother begged me to tell her daughter she was right.  Don’t involve strangers in your drama.  I looked at the woman and said, “I would, if I agreed with you.”  The shock on the mother’s face was equal to the smugness of the daughter’s.

A lot of life is just common sense.  I don’t know why they call something so uncommon common sense, but they do and it’s not.  It is as simple as thinking before you speak.  If you look through history, the worst faux pas occurred when some fool just rattled off some crap and the people who were beneath them had to go with the flow.  I also have a problem with the residents of this town who complain about the quality of the schools, but refuse to vote for  millage increases.  I have issues with people who say they need to make friends but don’t ever leave there house.  And don’t even get me started on doctors who bill you if you are not on time for your appointment, and then are consistently behind schedule.  My time is as important as theirs, yet I don’t get to bill them for keeping me waiting.  Ughh!

I know blogging about this won’t change a thing, but I get to vent.  Thank you for reading my anger.  I can’t even begin to tell you how much it means to me.  On the other hand, if you don’t read it and think it is absolutely fantastic…you are one of the fools who anger me!

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