- Motivational-type people who post incessant daily updates and happenings dripping with overly-positive personal affirmations and testimonials; to the point it makes you want to barf. Yo, there's a reason these people post like this ad nauseum; and it has nothing to do with YOUR lack of success. It has to do with them being afraid of their insecurities; in addition to their overly-inflated egos and disproportionate senses of self-importance.
- That love has become like shooting a game of darts; i.e. sometimes you gotta find satisfaction in the uncertainty of fighting hard for a game you're in the middle of, rather than focusing on the bullseye you scored in a previous game which you lost.
- That I still tend to ignore my mail box.
- That if fate would have it, there are those who would insist that other miscreants who had capitalized on my (previous) good nature, would continue to be able to do so; and that all the pressure would remain on me instead of them. Get a mother fuckin' job, you worthless leeching dirtbag cockroach.
- That sometimes I just have to mind my own business, when my conscience tells me I shouldn't.
- That in attempting to rightfully protect my own valid feelings, I have to constantly be reminded to consider the feelings of others which aren't necessarily in line with mine. I'm getting too old for this nice guy shit; I'm more like that carton of milk that's now 7 days past its purchase date. I may be seemingly delicious today; but tomorrow I'll be sour and curdled. Drink up now, or throw me away.
- That my mother is stubborn, and won't take her meds. It's like watching a female version of me, 30 years from now.
- That we live in a society where the family unit has become so fragmented, that it's perfectly normal to send our aging elders into "rest homes", instead of caring for them as they had cared for us. Look at Asia and the Middle East. No rest homes; just intact families who depend on each other till the end.
- Animals posing as humans, who can only manage to obtain off the blood, sweat and tears of others.
- That nowadays, even a great love is seemingly nothing more than the prospect of a near-perfect game; and means absolutely nothing unless it goes the distance for the win. How do you think Harvey Haddix felt?
More of the moronic on the way...
Dub'
- Billing and accounting practices of independent auto sales and repair shops.
- Care-facility workers for the elderly, who in an effort to make their job easier and more convenient, would intentionally mislead and confuse a stroke victim. I'm serious; this shit happens more than you would ever even think.
- Cracking the screen on my Blackberry, after working my Texas Hold Em' chip count up to over 8 million dollars.
- Making your own way home 30 miles from the airport on a Saturday night, when the person you anticipated would have no problem picking you up, is perfectly comfortable watching other friends of thiers sing karaoke instead.
- Those who carelessly cast aside a valued investment, in favor of an obvious bad investment; and then insist on wanting their original investment back after they go bust on the new one. Yo, it's an unfortunate situation, it really is; but apparently you got what you bargained for. Quit whining.
- That's there's always *one member* within a band of musician's who takes it upon himself to needlessly make it harder on everyone.
- That before the social networking phenomenon, it was somehow perfectly normal to go 30 years without seeing or hearing from extended family members.
- What happens to the mind of a parent, after they've suffered a stroke.
- That I couldn't stay longer in Oklahoma. Despite the reasons I went there, I was really beginning to like it there.
- That the half-retarded, blow-hard, wanna-be thug, man-child next door still thinks that the empty threats which continue to come out of his big mouth somehow intimidate me. And while we're on the subject, why are you still so concerned with what you would think I do with my ass? That's all you seem to talk about. Can you say *obsessed*? Closet-case much?
- Those who would think they can sell me on some ludicrous idea that being considered second best is somehow acceptable. Don't piss down my back, and then tell me it's raining. Mama raised a fool; not a damn fool.
Stay tuned; always more to come...
Dub'
- The airline and travel industry; more specifically the price gouging for otherwise inexpensive and nominal services. You goin' somewhere? It'll cost you 40 bucks if you wanna bring your luggage along too. Hungry? 10 bucks, and we'll let you eat this little stale sandwich so you don't starve while trapped in our flying tube. Need to check your email? That'll cost you 13 bucks.
- Cell phone plans that reward unknown prospects, by inducing them with anywhere from a $35 - $99 dollar phone to sign up; but force reliable long-term established customers to cough up anywhere from $250 - $600 for the same phones when they finally need one.
- And while I'm on the subject of cell phone service providers, I find it quite ironic that a billion dollar industry that relies on high tech satellite communications, can't even so much as figure out how to get their customer service people to communicate properly with their customers. I mean, really now. Ya'll should be leading the way when it comes down to the topic of effective business communication.
- Getting dealt a crappy hand when you've got the small blind.
- Getting dealt a crappy hand when you've got the small blind, and nobody raises.
- Height bigots, and those who make fun of short men.
- Lost luggage. Why always me?
- Seriously thin-skinned people who wouldn't know a real problem, if it came up and slapped them in the face.
- Medical care providers for the elderly, who approach their jobs as if it's just another job to do. It's not. When you're trying to get a skeptical elderly patient to take all those different meds, why don't you take a brief moment out of your hectic day to actually explain WHAT those meds are for, and WHY it's important they take them? Getting all flustered and huffy because an otherwise unaware elderly person has their own will isn't getting the proper message across. The elderly often require additional care; which takes more time and effort than most of us. Just take a breath, relax, and explain. There… now everybody feels better.
- While we're on the subject, why do you continually give my mother bland meal selections (which she continually voices her displeasure, to no apparent avail so far), while at the same time giving a big bowl of spicy chili to the elderly lady at her table who suffered her third heart attack? Which of you Einstein's there is the dietician?
Still on my trip to the mid-west; I guarantee more to come soon.
Dub'
- Half-measures of anything.
- Losing to people who have no honor.
- Obamacare. Now that I see what it really means to my elderly mother on Medicare.
- Overly-conspicuous red herrings ("hey everybody, look over there!"), and those who resort to them.
- People who demand immediate answers for things that aren't otherwise imminently required, and don't seem to understand what it means when others prioritize; and then resort to going over your head when they're not given top priority.
- Saint Frances Hospital, in Tulsa Oklahoma. "Obamacare" at its worst. Or is that "finest"?
- Self-imposed withdrawal and alienation. Used to be you just had to meet somebody to make a connection. Now it seems the more people you meet, the fewer prospects there appear to be.
- That in order to simply be taken seriously by those who would otherwise cast aside my opinions, I must at times resort to stinging forthrightness.
- Those who carelessly tread on others, then object as to the length of ongoing tensions their actions had created in the first place. The bigger the pond, the more significant the ripples.
- Those who preach to others about accountability; then would have us all overlook the significance as to the impact their subsequent bad choices had on everyone else.
- Transparently thin and ever-changing rationales that wreak of bullshit; and whose purveyors would have you think are valid reasons.
- Trying to cut through red tape during real emergencies.
- Women who keep me tucked away, like I'm a dirty little secret. What? Am I a vibrator, or something?
I'll be traveling this coming week; I'm certain that will provide no shortage of fodder for the 11th installment of TTPMO.
Dub'
