This is my rant for the day:
1. Why are people just MEAN on the interstate? Between Point A (where I enter the interstate to travel home from work) and Point B (where I exit the interstate to drive east on the state highway) there are several large/long grades. The interstate is only two lanes in each direction. This particular interstate is a major trucking route and always has heavy truck traffic at all times of the day. Upon being stuck in a behind several laboring semis at the start of a series of grades this evening, I politely put my blinker on to indicate my desire to pop into the line of cars in the left-hand lane. Six - count them, SIX cars deliberately and meanly (I could see it on their crabby, greedy faces) sped up so that I could not change lanes. It really was intentional, as the speeding up each time to close the gap where I could slide in was quite noticeable.
2. Why is my neighbor to the east so STUPID about watering his lawn? Point in fact, his lawn looks like CRAP, he's done nothing to maintain the landscaping, he doesn't mow regularly, and it's WINTER - you don't need to continue to run your sprinklers three times a week, DumbAss! Everyone else on the block turned theirs off completely in October. Hello, it freezes regularly and even snows occasionally here. Do you not notice that every time your sprinklers run you turn the sidewalk and gutter into a sheet of ice? This is rather hazardous to the many kids in the neighborhood and to the people who walk their dogs, jog, etc. Furthermore, you are a colossal water-waster and I am tired of you flooding MY backyard because you are too lame to figure out how and when to run your sprinkler system. Catch a clue!
3. The hoopla around that stupid Pennsylvanian rodent is ridiculous. How the hell do they convince him to crawl out of his hole into that idiotically-dressed crowd? Why should we believe a groundhog - does it have actual meteorological training? And do the news channels really need to spend so much time on this nonsense?
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What drives me nuts about "Ground Hog Day" is that in order to perpetuate their lore, they scare the everloving crap out of the poor animal with all the flashing cameras and loud cheers. He probably "sees his shadow" in the blinding light of the media. I secretly wish that while they are traumatizing him and giving him kissy face, that Phil bites the guy in the nose. But, that's just me. LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by during my rage. ;)
NPR did a feature on the various groundhog ceremonies in different cities around the US and Canada (see, even NPR is caught up in the hysteria!). Apparently, the NYC groundhog DID bite Mayor Bloomberg on the finger (he was wearing gloves)!
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