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You see, there is a lot that (insert bad word here) me off. Tonight, I was going to write about the increasing stupidity I see from dumb (insert bad word here) who think they are awesome at texting, or whatever in the (insert bad word here) they are doing and driving but realized it won’t make any difference. I guess these are the same people that are eating Tide Pods. Yes, I think you fall in the same category. If it was okay to text and drive, they would have movie screens on your dash, so you could watch 50 Shades of Grey or Talladega Nights while you took the kids to soccer practice or the million of other things we do, so we can say we are busy and look at our stupid phones. Everyone thinks they are so (insert bad word here) important that the data streaming across that glass screen is more important than any other thing that they may destroy while looking at that little miracle of modern technology.

That’s what I was going to write about tonight, but as you can tell the passion and angst towards those stupid (insert bad word here) people would not allow for a good feeling piece of text on a beautiful Monday night. Instead, I think I’ll stay in the same mode and just (insert bad word here) about the other things that (insert bad word here) (insert bad word here) me off. First, how in the (insert bad word here) do we get anything done in today’s society? Every time I meet someone they are “so tired”. Come on, really, how in the world can everyone be so tired? I don’t mean the people who have 6-10 kids from ages 1-12 but the people who don’t have a child living at home, have had the same job for a gazillion years, or literally go to work from 8-5 five days a week for 50 weeks a year. Those people that (insert bad word here) about how tired they are really needing to get out and do something and that tiredness would just go, poof, and disappear. How boring must their life be that they are so tired from the lack of life that they live? We live in the greatest country in the world, have beaches an hour and half from us in either direction, are the amusement park capital of the world, and you are tired. Seriously, it is exhausting getting up, going to work, coming home, cracking a beer or pouring a glass of wine, turning on the television until the Tonight Show comes on, and then getting up and doing it all over again. I know, I don’t understand. You’re right, I don’t understand. I had a really good coach during college and he would tell us constantly, “You are only as tired as you tell yourself. There is physical tiredness and mental tiredness. If you tell yourself you are tired, you guessed it, you’re tired.” It is truly personal, but I believe this wholeheartedly.

Don’t get me started on being busy. For God sake, everyone is also so busy. How in the (insert bad word here) are we so busy? What about being productive instead? Why are we busy? Maybe it is simply because that’s what all the other lemmings do so we think we need to do the same thing. Are you really busy or just bad with your time management or determining what’s really important to you? We spend so much time doing things that aren’t important, like looking at Facebook posts while driving, but I digress, that we don’t take the time to handle the things that are truly important to us. So, when that happens we become too busy. We become so busy that we then become tired. We get so tired that we are so busy that we cannot get the things done that we need to do to actually better ourselves, so we then spend the time off from our work doing the things that needed to be done so we can go do the things again the next week that steal our time. The circle goes around and around so we get to tell everyone how busy and tired we are. Don’t believe me, just listen from tomorrow through Friday, keep a tally and you will be shocked.

Lastly, I think I will discuss the lack of customer service. I wish I had enough working capital because I believe I could be a multi-millionaire in so many industries. There are a few I wouldn’t touch but I don’t have to. Machines will take those jobs from them, we will pay for them to be out of work, and they will fuss that if they got paid $15/hour they would do better. Really, how hard is it to look at a large screen, a piece of paper, and then fill a bag with the proper food ordered from the establishment. Forget smiling, I’ll take the proper order and deal with your frumpy attitude. In my small town it is hilarious what is going on. There is a fast food establishment that is pushing the use of kiosk ordering machines. The hilarious part of it is that the company is using the current employees to train the customers on how to use it. “We want more money”, is the mantra and the company has decided that they are willing to invest in machinery instead of the human. Who can blame them? How many phone calls must they get, along with every other service industry, regarding the lack of customer service. Our family spends a lot of time out and about so the convenience of quick food is more important than the clogging of the arteries that occurs from eating it. We spend multiple minutes at these places of business and it is shocking how many times our order is incorrect. We are not driving a tour bus through the drive-through, we are simply a small family. Good lord, can you imagine the average American family these days? There must be big question mark on the bag when it is received through the window. The funny thing is, when there is an error the workers get (insert bad word here) that you have brought it to their attention. Oops, I’m sorry that I am asking you to do your job properly. I know, you are so busy and tired that you just can’t do your paying job correctly. It isn’t just the fast food world but most industries, excuse my French, suck at customer service these days. Any outgoing entrepreneur, if they can deal with firing many workers until finding the right ones, can make an absolute fortune in the industry they choose. There is a group of consumers that still cares, or at least I think there is, and would love to have great experiences while shopping in true retail locations.

Wow, I feel so (insert bad word here) good now. That was refreshing. I wish you all the best tomorrow while commuting to work. Oh yeah, one last thing. A few years ago, I met with the school psychologist just because I wanted to make sure I was healthy. We sat down, but I didn’t have to lay on the couch, and started talking. I asked him how he felt about this story. It goes a little like this: “Whenever I see someone texting while driving I want to take them and push them off the road with the bumper of my truck. Actually, I wish I had a big rig, so I could destroy them before they have the ability to hurt anyone else.” “Hey Doc, is this an issue?” The doc sits back in his high-backed chair, smiles, and then says, “Have you ever done any of those things?” “No” I say. He then leads forward and says, “You are completely normal. We all have those thoughts but unless you actually act on them we don’t have a problem.” I left satisfied and to this day I have such a sense of normalcy when I get so (insert bad word here) off seeing some dumb (insert bad word here) staring deeply into their phone while cruising down the road. I never hope they are injured but the day I watched a man text and drive, at highway speed, into the bumper of a large F150, I am not going to lie, I smiled like a guy who just got acquitted because a glove didn’t fit. As I said, good luck tomorrow. I hope you get to see the stupidity that surrounds you, the tiredness and busyness that is rampant, and that when your Big Mac in your bag isn’t a Quarter Pounder.

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