Items I can live without

Okay so on this allergy inducing Sunday I thought to myself of all the things that drive me nuts. Here is a sampling -

Allergies - Any kind, but mostly those that cause me physical or mental discomfort. Pollen, pet dander, stupid people etc. are main culprits in no particular order. Pointless having them in the atmosphere but I guess unless we find a way to pollinate for the survival of the species the tree huggers are gonna want it.
Adults who organize surprise parties for other adults - I am not sure if this is a bay area disease but I am often informed of ridiculous events like a spouse organizing a surprise birthday party for their other half. I mean what sort of mental defective does not know a party is being planned under their own nose? Got to be some allergy that chokes the nose to not know that? And they don't just organize it but 'throw it'. The attending sycophants yam about this event by describing how so and so threw this surprise party for her spouse who just finished graduating from B-school. What a load of crock! I think that surprise is more to the accosted guest who is hand picked to help with the festivities and not get paid for their labor. Because it is usually the female member of the species that organizes this for the male in the household and dumps the work on the unsuspecting male guest(s). This male guest in a vacuous attempt at chivalry often falls prey to this scam. I am not sure if I am more amazed that a grown man had a party to celebrate spending money in school or turning 40 or 50 years old or whatever days he consumed material goods on this planet and occupied valuable real estate, or that his spouse was yearning for a look of surprise so bad?
People with pets - Leaving turds on other people's property to entertain themselves by taking out their defecating animals or letting them loose without a leash as their idea of fun, are retards in the community I can definitely live without.
Women that wear welding glasses on the street - these tend to be mostly Asian and have this habit of wearing a massive sunshade that prevents visibility to traffic in their vicinity. I have often feared for my life as one of them veers into traffic with their European stroller with no knowledge of that car inches behind them doing sixty.
Chit chat about transgender - when a country has no real world problems to deal with it makes them up. Bathroom design for transgender people is one such. I empathize with all genders when it comes to taking nature's call. But answer me this - if someone not of the gender marked on the bathroom door walked in the opposite type - what happens? Nothing! I mean who is taking trips to bathrooms of opposite sex as if it was an amusement park? Is this a real threat to our society now? Which goes to my other bigger problem of what is with the gender specific restrooms in the first place? Women long wanted equality so what the heck is with this made up nonsense?
Another election - if democracy has taught us one thing it is that you can find free comedy come election time. But honestly I am considering watching professional comedians if I need a fix.
Money design- can we please not waste collective societal time on BS like whose face can we put on the money?

But What If We're Wrong?

I attempted to read this book by author Chuck Klosterman backward to forward but it started hurting my brain so I decided to stop and do it like any other publication in the English language. Start from page 1 and move to the right. Witty, caustic and thought provoking this is a book you want to read if you believe that the status quo might, just might be wrong. At times bordering on being contrarian about most things around us it tries to zero in on the notion of what makes anything believable and certain in our minds. The fact that there is a fact itself is ironic. Something analogous to the idea that you can never predict the future because there is no future. Many books and movies have tried to play on this concept - best that I recollect (I think I am) was 'The Truman Show'. This book by Klosterman attempts to provoke the reader to at least contemplate that what they think they know may be wrong. He uses examples like concept of gravity, and how it ...

You are important to us

Followed by piano music. Followed by 'we are experiencing heavier than usual call volume'. Sounds macabre like bleeding during menstruation or after a ghastly attack with a weapon on a hemophiliac. Sorry Mrs. Johnson but it appears little Gertrude here has been bleeding heavier than usual what with her night time activities competing with the woodchucks in your neighborhood. Some services even go as far as to pick a random day to say - 'if you were to call us during the Chinese lunar month when the moon is axiomatically hugging the polar star with Jupiter intravenous when call volume is light'. Well I will be damned. I thought I had checked with my astrologer before I placed this well focused call but I guess this is what you get for listening to a quack. Umph! I am not sure which marketing genius came up with this personal touch concept of informing the caller that you are really a jackass for actually calling the customer serv...

Of Jims and Johns

Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...

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