Sick bastards, corrupt government and depression…
So my wife and I were at the grocery store the other night, buying what little meager food we could and we go to check out. Honestly it was the first time I’d been out of the house in a week other than to get the mail, so I was kinda eager to get out a bit, even if it was just to the grocery store.
After we got our food, we went to check out. Now picking which line we’re going to get in is always a deliberate process for us. First we look at the checker to see if they look friendly and fast at their job. Then we look at who’s in line ahead of us to see if they…
#1. …have a lot of groceries, thereby creating a long wait for us since they have to bag it all themselves, not to mention how long it takes to get checked out.
#2. …look like they’re stupid, because stupid people breed problems and hold up the parade while they try to get it worked out with the cashier, manager or whoever else has to get involved.
or
#3. …
See, there wasn’t really a number 3, until now.
So the lady at the checkout stand is running our groceries through. Now the stands are divided with a thing down the middle and a belt on each side with two bagging areas at the end so the checker can be checking out the next person while the first one is bagging. It’s a great system…unless you have some creepy lookin’ lady, probably in her early 60′s down at the end bagging her groceries trying to yack up what hopefully was just a giant gob of snot. I say hopefully because my imagination could run wild with myriad of other bizarre things it could have been. Basically though, she was sick…and out buying groceries.
Now, I’m not heartless. Really I’m not! I can totally understand someone being sick and having to go out to get groceries. However…
This creepy old bat didn’t even try to cover her mouth while she was yacking…AND…she had her adult daughter with her who was helping her bag!!!
Now if you’re alone I can understand having to go out, but if you’re sick and you have an adult daughter that can go get food for you, then STAY THE HELL HOME!!! Don’t go out and infect everyone else with your germs just because you can. Then again, if she was so ignorant that she couldn’t even cover her mouth while she was yackin’ up that glob of whatever, then I seriously doubt she was the type of person who’d have enough class to actually care whether or not she made anyone else sick. Still, you’d think the daughter would have made her stay home.
Anyway, if you’re sick, stay the hell home. Don’t go spreading it around. We have enough problems with the swine flu making the rounds, we don’t need every other sickie spreading whatever crap they have along with it.
The checkout lady was all, “Man, she might as well have just spit.” After she was gone, the checker took some disinfectant gel and wiped down the whole area.
Anyway, that’s it for now. The reason I haven’t written much lately has a lot to do with depression and being tired all the time. I’m constantly sleepy lately and I don’t know why. Not sure if its the weather or what, but man, I just can’t seem to get going.
The other thing that has me depressed is the massive corruption I see in our government. I’m not going to get into it, because if I did I wouldn’t be able to stop. Just remember, the people are the ones with the real power. We don’t have to keep re-electing incumbents. So when your next election comes around, vote for a third party candidate. There are perfectly good and honest people running in the third parties who never have a chance because the corrupt two-party system and the media who are in their pockets lock out everyone except for those who are running in the two major parties. It’s time to break that system and throw out the corruption that’s destroyed out government, our economy, our wallets and the system that has cost many of our brave soldiers their lives while we have a worthless president who has no problem sucking up to our enemies and the evil powers of the world and dances around at Latin music festivals while he avoids making a decision on the troop levels in Afghanistan because he wants to get every leftist wingnuts opinion on it before he decides what to do. Meanwhile, our troops are getting killed and are unable to complete the mission they were sent there to do. I always thought Carter was the most worthless president we’ve ever had. Someone better send Guinness over to the White House, because in just ten months, Obama’s broken the hell out of Carter’s record for ignorance and destructiveness. In Carter’s defense though, even though he’s a total douche bag, at least the Carter administration didn’t breed a culture of fascism, which is what’s been happening exponentially in this country ever since the last campaign.
That plus money problems and some other stuff is why I’m so depressed all the time. I try not to let myself fall into it as deeply as I used to, but it’s really hard sometimes.
The one big joy I have right now as far as entertaining distractions are Bollywood movies. We’ve both really gotten into them. They’re a hell of a lot of fun, and if you don’t like the dance numbers, you can just fast forward through them. We’ve been getting tons of them from Netflix and they’re really just…fun. I can watch them and smile and forget about everything for a while.
Anyway, that’s it for now. I’ll try to write more often. I just need to try to find stuff to write about that won’t irritate me or make me even more depressed.
(Current Mood: tired
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