What an insightful article on www.cnn.com today!!! Did you know obese children are more susceptible to bullies? Well, according to author Anne Harding, "Children in Grades 3 through 6 who are obese are more likely to be bullied than their normal-weight peers, a new study has found." Figures the lead author of the study is a professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Nothing good comes out of that place. Really, what worth is this study? How is it relevant to society? We'd be better off if they'd spend their time helping these kids lose weight and how to eat healthy and exercise than "studying" how they get bullied. What's next? A study about women having babies? Study finds that more women have babies than men. Earth shattering stuff.
Monday, May 3, 2010
NC Drivers
North Carolina drivers are awful. I have never been anywhere in my life where there are worse drivers and worse traffic than in North Carolina. They should all be driving Buick's with rubber baby buggy bumpers around each of their cars so they can just play bumper cars out there. Perhaps as an added safety feature they should consider lining the street with those damn rubber bumpers that they use in bowling alleys to keep the ball in the lane. It would probably help. What makes you think that you can fit in the 20 feet between my car and the car in front of me from a dead stop when I am going 55 mph? Seriously, in what world is that sort of acceleration possible? Not in your world - especially considering you don't even freaking hit the accelerator. I don't know what it is that makes you such terrible drivers. Must be a combination of several different factors, but I'm going to go with inbreeding and moonshine damaging your brains (wait, that's West Virginia).
Monday, April 19, 2010
Fat Flight Attendants
I am sick of fat flight attendants. Seriously. How much bigger can they get? I understand some people have actual reasons they are fat other than eating too much, but this needs to be one situation where some sort of policy is put into place to hire smaller flight attendants. It is not cool when their big ol' butts hit me when they walk down the aisle. If you have to rotate your hips to fit between the seats then you are too damn big to work as a flight attendant. That should be the rule. A measurement system should be put into place and should be followed by the airlines. We police and regulate everything else on the airlines, so why not this? I'd be the first to say "Bravo" if an airline enacted such a policy and I would probably choose to fly with that airline whenever given a choice. My proposed measurement policy wouldn't even be that stringent - just that the width of their hips cannot exceed the distance between the seats in the aisle. Whatever happened to "hot" flight attendants? What happened to it being a glamorous job that all the beautiful young women wanted? That certainly isn't the case any more. They should pay more to attract more beautiful people so that I can enjoy my flights. What is happening to our country?!?!?!?! Howard Hughes is rolling over in his grave.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Grocery Stores
Grocery Stores suck. All of them. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but for the purpose of this blog, they all suck. I have several issues with grocery stores, two of which annoy me the most.
The first has become a big problem at Giant Eagle. They no longer have people running checkout. They installed these damn self checkout machines and they don't have anyone actually checking people out. Then you have to scan all your own damn groceries and bag all your own damn groceries and it takes forever. Heaven forbid you buy alcohol, someone has to come over and enter a damn code. Or, OH NO!, the bagging area doesn't sense that your item was placed on the belt. It's on the damn belt. Just let me proceed. Gotta get someone to come over and enter the code again. They spend so much time coming over to enter codes, they could just check me out fulltime. Plus I consider it a basic convenience that the grocery store owes me to bag my groceries. Bagging groceries sucks. It at least provides someone with a job that didn't previously have one. Want to fix unemployment? I'm sure a shitload of baggers used to have jobs that don't know since the invention of these god-awful self checkout machines. So you check out, then while you are bagging your own groceries, someone else starts checking out, there shit comes down the damn belt towards your shit and then all your damn groceries are mixed together and they are just going about their own damn business not caring that this is annoying as hell. And it is annoying as hell. But they don't care, most people really don't even pay a damn bit of attention to the fact that they are screwing up your shit.
The second issue is these damn "bonus" cards that seem to be the rage. Giant Eagle at least gives "fuel perks" for their bonus cards. But tell me what my MVP Card at Food Lion or VIP card at wherever the hell grocery store gets me. I know it gives me discounts - just give me the damn discounts as regular price without signing up for a damn card. If I say I don't have the card, you just swipe a new one which I then throw away, not signing up anyway. This is stupid. Quit bothering me with it. Make everything the same damn price and don't screw with me. Half the time the person behind me in line scans their card, so what is the damn point. Just to gather all our damn information and phone #'s. That's it. To send us coupons and shit. I don't want any of your damn coupons.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Cleanup on Aisle Tree
As part of the new theme of this blog, I have removed many older posts that did not coincide with where we will be taking our journey from this point forward.
So enjoy the new posts, and some of the old ones that I have left around for you to read.
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