Musing For Today
You know, ambulances don't exist anymore. They haven't existed for at least the past 30 years or so. They've since been known as "paramedics".
....which means injury law firms haven't been "ambulance chasers" for quite some time. They're "paramedic chasers"
...hence, instead of "Amber, Lance, and Chase" they should be titled "Perry, Maddie, and Chase"
Remember 24-hour restaurants and the weekend "bar rush" from late evening till the early A.M.?
When I was hitchhiking around the country back in the 1980s I'd be at a Waffle House or Denny's late at night, especially on a Friday or Saturday, and one crowd after another would stroll on in, "flooding" the place and practically "taking over" the establishment with their obnoxious personalities and loud mouths.
If the establishment wasn't very friendly they'd often tell me I "had to leave" in order to make room for these fraternal "butt fucker" crowds. Which makes sense----who do the managers and servers stand to make the most money off of, some lone vagrant nursing a cup of coffee for two hours or a bunch of affluent drunks with wallets full of bills or multiple credit cards, coupled with a guarantee of huge tips galore?
And the folks in these crowds would always order something to eat, never be able to finish their food, throw up half of their late-night meal in the parking lot, but still they dutifully paid their tab just the same.
And the police would always be "taking their break" at the same time in that establishment as well, no doubt observing who was taking off staggering and stumbling out to their car and calling in the description of that person's vehicle to a colleague waiting up the road.
These days I don't think any place stays open past 10:00 or 11:00 P.M.. Anymore, even the bars themselves close early. The concept of the "all night cafe", "24-hour restaurant", and "24-hour convenience store" has become quite an anachronism overnight.
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Have you ever noticed .....
...that mass shootings are usually directed toward upper-middle-class environments?
It's true! Most take place at concerts, or in shopping malls, or restaurants, or in swanky clique bars, or suburban schools, or grocery stores, or large outdoor gatherings, or on university/college campuses.
The primary targets seem to be mainly privileged "trophy" type people.
As for the average inner-city or "trailer park" rabble, those types are more likely to end up being victims of local street violence. Whenever those "lesser" types get shot or stabbed it's usually by another individual or small group from the same neighborhood or general area.
Musing For Today
You know what makes performing so many tasks such a drag? The fact that most anything you do has to be done piecemeal. Even the simplest chores seem to require a "10-step instruction manual".
For instance: In order to clean the floor in your living room you have to move all the furniture, tables, bookshelves, and cabinets to another room, then fill a bucket with soapy water, wipe up, rinse rag, dump out the dirty water and refill with soapy water again.
Then, when finished, move all that furniture and other stuff back into the living room where they were. Sort of like "working for a moving company" and "doing janitorial work" at the same time.
Just about any task you take on, whether mandated or by your own free choice, has to be done in a similar manner: doing laundry; washing dishes; going shopping; transporting yourself to an appointment; filling out forms; logging onto online accounts (e-mail and password); even engaging in hobbies or certain forms of recreation entail a lot of "preparation" beforehand.
A lot of people get "stark" confused with "harsh"
...and "blunt" confused with "abusive"
One thing to be said about the "Wokesters" and "Cancel Culture": a lot of what used to be reserved for the social misfits (the oddballs, weirdos, freaks, malcontents, lunatics) has finally trickled down to the quintessential "average" Joe and Jane.
Then: Anyone behaving "strangely", not just irrational and psycho but even simply acting weird or saying off-the-wall things, stood to be committed to a state mental institution involuntarily. And once collectively judged to be "crazy" would lose all credibility as a person.
Nowadays: Anyone who contradicts, or points out any discrepancies or inconsistencies in or within popular narratives put forth by the current social, corporate, or political environment or by favored "special interest" groups stand to be banished from social media sites, or even fired from their job (or removed from their profession), or ignored altogether by most major media outlets.
Then: Students get expelled from school for using obscenities or for disruptive behavior
Nowadays: Employees and even bosses lose their jobs or positions over "hate speech", "inappropriate statements", or "saying something 'abusive'".
Then: A lot of establishments reserved "the right to refuse service to anyone". And were big on enforcing laws against "loitering". NO HITCHHIKERS OR VAGRANTS. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED FOR TRESPASSING was a common notice on the entrance to a lot of truck stops, and even a lot of restaurants would refuse entry to anyone carrying a back pack or duffel bag.
Nowadays: Facemasks or proof of vaccination for COVID required to enter.
This sort of ostracizing and humiliating is nothing new for us "malcontents", "undesirables", and overall "unwanted". But for the average "respectable" normals, so used to being entitled to "mandated" unconditional general respect from others and "having command over" their lives and everything around them, it's probably quite a traumatic experience to suddenly find themselves being treated like some kind of "menace" and "threat" to others around them.
