Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Things that make me go Hmmmm

Admittedly I have a short fuse, and there are things that get my attention and pi$$ me off that really aren't my business, but alas, as Popeye would say "I am what I am" .... I am lucky to work in an interesting city in a really great neighborhood.  The following items are things/people/actions I encounter at least occasionally.

  • /begin rant
  • Pregnant moms along with a fairly young baby in a stroller smoking and walking to the local health center for their methadone patches.
PregnantWomen1.jpg image by Skorp88
  • Same mom, lit smoldering cigarette hanging out of her mouth yelling at the young baby in stroller that s/he will get skin cancer if s/he doesn't keep their hat on in the sunlight (ironic?)
  • Different mom, chinking a cigarette and putting it in the pocket of her baby's stroller for another time.
  • People yelling things out of the windows of their cars.  I think driving/moving in traffic gives some people a sense of anonymity.  I have witnessed a car pull past a group of pre-op trannies on the street and yell "get some pu$$y" out the window....really? what good could come of that kind of comment?  It surely riled up the ladies though...they were screaming at the car's occupant to maybe get some D1ck and on and on and on.  TG the car was moving in traffic b/c I felt like we'd perhaps be part of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.....
     
  • Homeless man stepping in front of my car as I pull out of a parking garage, accusing me of targeting him and smashing his hand.  He wanted to know what I would give him to keep him from calling the police.  I told him to call the police but he refused, wrote down my license plate instead and said he'd sue me. (for what, I have no idea.  I had barely removed my foot from brake to pull out of a garage onto the side street.....i didn't even roll.)
  • People throwing their smoldering cigarette butts out of their car window onto to the street.  I "get" that they don't want the cigarette butts in their car/ashtray, but really?  Throw it out the window instead?  Oh wait, i gotta poop, let me fling it out the window instead of using the receptacle made to contain/dispose of said poop.  REALLY?
  • There are many other things that get me riled up.  The smell of urine as I come up out of the train station, the litter of cigarette butts and trash on the ground (really, people PICK UP YOUR TRASH), the stinky smell of dumpsters on my way to work. The random dog poo on the ground (at least i hope it's dog poo)  sigh.  
  • /end rant

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