Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Getting Pregnant on Purpose?

If you have ever driven in a car during a long trip with kids in the backseat eventually the fighting starts. "She started it" as the other cries "stop looking at me, mom she is looking at me." So, you ask the other one to stop looking and the next screaming you hear is "she pointed at me!" They point fingers back and forth and finally you have to tell them to sit as close to the opposite doors as they can, hands folded and look out the window with mouths closed.
I recently was reading a blog when someone leaves this message about how some women get pregnant on purpose to trap the man.
I equate this to any living person that is stupid enough to show up to a judge after being cited for accident involving alcohol. Did the alcohol trap you?
Nobody traps anybody, but you can get caught up in a web of lies. Life is sexually transmitted. All birth control has a failure rate, even in rare cases of sterilization. Where is the surprise when that happens? Maybe we assume that everyone is a mind reader? I think if someone gets a disease from a person and that person did not disclose it, than we have someone that should be hung from the highest tree. How dare anyone ruin someone's health over their own greedy sexual urges, however we can assume that most men and women that are walking around have functioning eggs and sperm that it is their biological duty to find each other. You have agreed to a possible pregnancy when you combine body parts, end of story. You knew you were mixing gasoline with matches from the start, no one did this to you.
It is the same childish phrase about who started it when it really doesn't matter when you both technically agreed to a possible pregnancy when you combine body parts, no matter what the verbal story was, biology does not have ears. Maybe blame the sperm, afterall they always did like her best?
What is even worse is the child that was born out of the lethal "trap of the vagina" gets to live with two parents that really did not want to be in the business of parenting. I understand that people feel like they "need" this and this is nature, but let me remind you that "anger" is also a natural feeling but you can't go bashing peoples heads in because "nature calls." We have brains and two hands (animals have paws) and really any urge you have can be taken care of without reckless disregard for biology. Even when driving a car, you maybe traveling in one that swerves a little to the left, but you should know how to operate the vehicle to protect yourself and others.
Two things that really irk me is that women jump on other women for this and that both sexes do not take responsibility for irresponsible use of their body parts. I know some of you will tell me that you can't stop people from having irresponsible sex which is probably addictive from what I have seen in peoples behavior. Is it any different from a drug?
Meanwhile back at home I think we need to stop pointing fingers and no matter what these two active set of genitals need to be parents because they only have this kid for 18 years and if they do a crappy job, we get them for the next 60 in jail.

Monday, August 18, 2008

So, everyone wants to be connected to a "winner?"

So we have an American that wins 8 gold medals. This fact is not the issue that I blog for today. I blog for the ridiculous reason that because he won these medals analysts are now saying that his worth throughout his career starts now at 100 million dollars, currently and before he entered the competition he was making only 5 million a year.
Why? Endorsements.
You have to be kidding me? He endorses Visa, Mastercard, Speedo and somehow it is a better product? You can associate yourself with greatness and do just like "the stars" do. Why I am on this subject let me explain that actors are professional pretenders, they pretend to be another person. Somehow when people spend a few hours watching a movie or hours watching them in your house it is assumed they have been an actual houseguest and would never lie to you..........you have a delusion of relationship and so now a friend is hooking you up with a product.........your friend would never lie. I laugh at the "Best Actor" awards, because really the best liar is winning. How can they distort the truth into a story and pretend? It is an illusion.
Who needs consumer reports when if Paris Hilton endorses it, then quality it must be.
Are we just a bunch of mindless "Monkey see, Monkey do?"

Thursday, August 7, 2008

There is no such thing as a good "line"

I went into a restaurant tonight and asked for a table. The hostess replied that there would be a 30 minute wait. I turned to my party and asked them if they wanted to wait. They shrug their shoulders and act like they don’t have a choice in agreement to the conditions of dining.
We wait. I hate waiting. I hate waiting when I really do not have to wait.
After about 20 minutes they surrender a table and then we wait another 15 minutes for the waitress to come by and ask what we wanted to drink, another 10 minutes to order and then another 20 minutes for the food.
I hate waiting, especially when I am paying for it!
If I had not been with these particular dining pals, I would have walked out at the first hint of a wait.
Why?
Because they are busy. I will take less service and probably food quality too, while they improve their bottom line. More productivity for less labor costs. As soon as they tell me that there is going to be a wait, I know the entire place is backed up and overworked.

Lines at clubs? I would never. If there is a line at the door, there is a line at the bar and guess how long the line is on the way out (the bathroom?), no thank you!

Lines is grocery stores? Just say no! I have just left the merchandise and walked out, I am not doing it!

We all just line up and wait and wait like farm animals like it is some fraternity tradition and why? Because we let them and people just put up with it. It often reminds me of the photos of the bread lines in Russia. I promise you I will find a place without a line, I am just not going to take less, so you can have more for no other reason than you can under staff and cut corners.

In these times where competition is up, you would think they would at least offer more customer service than wanting me to understand that I have to take less, while paying the same prices.

They can manage these lines if they want to. Disneyland put in fast track because of the complaining about wait times. It was silly. Having people wait in line while they could just make a reservation and enjoy the park while waiting their turn.



So far I think the worst lines, worst than Disneyland is the TSA lines at the airport. That is a bunch of crap because they charge us a security fee to fund that and they know what the passenger load is and can staff for it.

What is the longest line you ever waited in?