July 15, 2005 :: I wish I didn't have home training, sometimes

I'm not a naturally violent or vindictive person. Really, I'm not. When I get mad with someone, my instinct is normally to put as much distance as possible between myself and the object of my ire.

Having said that, here is a list of people I'd like to slap:

• That fool who managed to step on one foot, then immediately step on my other foot with his other foot, and didn't even turn around or say anything.


• People who drive out of control on the beltway. It was pouring rain yesterday as I drove home, and I was on this stretch of the inner loop by College Park that's under construction, so the surface has been scraped for it to be repaved. It just ain't safe to push a 3 ton steel object at 70+ mph in heavy traffic on any kind of regular tires. And sure enough, I got stuck RIGHT behind an accident and had to wait a few minutes for the fire & rescue and a state trooper. bammas!


• People who are drive completely oblivious to the world around them. If you are comfortable doing 60 on the beltway, in sunny dry and normal speedy conditions, that's fine. But get the hell out of the left lane, because you're going to cause an accident, or at least a slowdown behind you as people stack up and can't pass.


• The waiter at my friend's birthday dinner. We had a party of eight, and he tried like hell to be scarce. Even ran away from the table three times before we'd finished giving him instructions. He knew his 18% gratuity was already included. And of course no one cared but me.


• The stupid online furniture vendor who sent me a bed without any screws, nuts or bolts, and then sent me only screws when I complained about it.


• The other stupid online furniture vendor who thought it was reasonable to charge $225 shipping on a $600 purchase.


• Verizon, for deliberately fscking up my phone line because I don't have DSL from them. Bitches, the noise is AUDIBLE! I can HEAR it! But apparently they don't give a shit because I only have regular voice, and it's "good enough". I can't even get dialup faster than 33k sometimes. I hate them so much I'm considering leaving my great ISP and signing up for cable modem with the hated Comcast. *sigh* but at least it is working today, because I needed to work from home today.


• That DC meter maid who gave me a $100 ticket for expired tags, when the shit had just arrived in the mail the same day. I am going to mail in my evidence, though, and fight this one.

posted by Rainmayun at 12:42 PM -