... why are there so many stupid people out there!? ...
Usually at the top of my list of "Infuriating Things": Stupid People. >:(
That song, Flag Pole Sitter, or something: "Only stupid people are breeding; the cretins cloning and feeding..."
"Geniuses" of the I-want-it-now crowd, I'm-entitled-to-everything-without-having-to-work-hard... out-numbering the sane and responsible. Voting spineless cowards into office, to make equally spineless and idiotic laws... usually to appease the ever-growing populace of instant-gratification-or-it's-Junk school of mentally-unarmed zombie bums.
I muster all my patience and self-control not to just unleash the hounds of fury on every MORON and self-absorbed punk I'm unlucky enough to be forced to deal with... Even if it's just a "normal errand" to the store for groceries, especially around the holidays, the odds increase dramatically of having to share a line with or play idiot-dodging in the aisles... From what should be "common courtesy" of picking-up your own trash or putting things back where you got them, to talking/yelling on a cellphone in the middle of the store like it's your god-given right to annoy the daylights outta everyone around you, to refusing to simply move your overly-rotund-self out of the way if you're blocking the aisle for others to pass...
It may take a village to raise a child, but public stores are NOT "free childcare". I don't give a rat's behind how wonderful little Johnny is at home: if you allow him to run around the store acting like he just drank two cases of JOLT, and you're too oblivious to do anything about it, then I have a few solutions that probably won't be well-received.
Yes. I've had an over-dose of Stupid People in the past 7-days.
My hat is off to those poor souls who work retail and are forced to deal with these oxygen-wasting-sacks-of-skin on a regular basis.
As for those two worthless pink bodies who trampled through your neighborhood, Shaak Ti, I have two words: Pump Shotgun. That beautiful "Ka-Chunk!" sound is easily identifiable to even the STUPIDEST mouth-breather. It should snap 'em out of whatever self-induced brain-freeze they're in, faster than smelling salts and a double-espresso. Secondary benefit: (assuming the gun is loaded, and proper precautions are followed with children in the house), IF those two social-degenerates decided to Not follow the instinct of "flight" from the Ka-Chunk, then the law-abiding mom-and-kids would be able to defend themselves... Because right up there with "Stupid People" on my Infuriating List, is when Bad-Things-happen-to-Good-People, and the criminals get more protection than the victims...
All right. Enough from me. Thanks for this thread... *inhales and exhales slowly* "Goosfraba".... ;)
Merry Christmas! ;D