One thing I don't get about health care professionals:
Why is it if you're slim, not overweight, or diabetic they figure you to be "in perfect health"?
And why do they think that "drugs and alcohol addiction" are the only major health issues facing the average person?

I mention "mental health problems" and a diagnosis of "schizophrenia" to a provider and they'll ask me 
"Do you ever hear voices inside your head?"
"Yes, I do!  They tell me 'Beware of health care professionals who stereotype their patients instead of taking the time to get to know them better'"

"Have you ever taken any drugs or do you often consume any alcohol?"
"No drugs.  But I will occasionally buy a six-pack of Stella." 
"So ....... How long have you had this addiction to alcohol?"
"Come again?"  ..............




                                                      Adage For Today
Any time what's going down is someone else's idea, that's when you're served a salad with poisonous mushrooms

Once is enough
     Twice is too much
            Three times or more we're at war

That plasma center next door is not a very good neighbor.

For starters, the building's central air system is absurdly loud, with one of the fans emitting a penetratingly low frequency rumble with excessively grating overtones.  And this system turns on and off regularly 24/7.

Then there's the dumpster truck that comes by at least three times a week at five o'clock in the morning to collect (what I assume to be) the biological waste
 ...full "body slam" and high-pitched intermittent "beeping" to "alert others" when backing up (as if there could be that much of a high volume of traffic in an alley at that time of day).

Then the delivery trucks rumblin' up to to the loading docks blowing their air horns upon arrival.

If living in an apartment building doesn't entail enough noise pollution, what with loud tenants---who've never been taught the difference between "inside voice" and "outside voice"---having their loud conversations in the hall to the traffic noise coming off the main arteries running by the building as well as from various vehicles using the back alley as some kind of "alternative route" to the congested main drags, these activities surrounding the plasma center are adding their fair share to the detracting of any quality-of-life potential this residential unit I reside in could of potentially had.

It's a shame, though.  I USED to regularly frequent plasma centers around the country myself when bumming my way place-to-place when I was younger.  Feels a bit hypocritical on my part to be complaining about one now.

Apartment Building Rules

 NO TRESPASSING
 NO SMOKING

 NO ILLICIT DRUGS

 NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

 NO LOUD MUSIC

 NO LOITERING

 NO PROFANITY

               VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED

     This isn't a residential building----it's practically a fuckin' convent and monastery

To the server who displays subtle contemptuous attitude towards me

...so your husband abuses you a lot.  Of course I realize your marriage must obviously not been one of free choice or free will.  It was probably a "shotgun wedding" or court-ordered.  It couldn't be because you, maybe, have no aptitude for judging other people's character and just may be one who's easy to take advantage of

...you're clearly stressed out from all the responsibilities of raising your kids.  All the expenses, and that you never seem to have any time left over for yourself.  The hours they take from you.  And you get by on little sleep.  You have to cart one kid to soccer practice, another to dance class, anther to music lessons.  What a hassle!
I can see why you're so resentful about all this.  Obviously you don't really enjoy your domestic obligations, or actually being in the company of your children.  I'm guessing you probably didn't really WANT any of your three children in the first place.  Obviously you must of only gotten pregnant via being repeatedly raped.

I can see why I should feel obliged to "feel really bad for you".  Why your personal issues should be "MY problem".  
As an "undesirable" person my lot in life is to be held accountable for whatever is wrong with the lives of all those around me.  It makes sense that I be deserving of all the wrath, slighting, and spiting you can dish out to me.
Yes, lady, your problems really ARE "all my fault".

                 Fundamentals Of Life

 One is either

...a performer or in the audience

...a driver/pilot or a passenger

...a causation or one affected

...a builder or an occupant

...one who breaks or one who fixes

...an inventor or one using the product

...a servant/merchant or a customer

...one delivering or one receiving

...a writer or a reader

...a physician or a patient

...a professional or a client

...a speaker or one hearing/listening

...a producer or a consumer








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I know not how many of you are aware of this, but ...

...our society's at war.  Not with the Middle East.  Nor with North Korea.  Nor with China.

I'm talking about the eternally ongoing war within.  One that's always been active since time eternal.  The one between the citizens themselves.

It's usually a "cold civilian war" for the most part, although still volatile enough to erupt into isolated violent encounters under turbulent enough circumstances or situations.

The animosity is always present, even if normally covertly and clandestinely glossed over.

And you can never tell who your adversaries may be.  Like in any other type of guerrilla warfare the enemies often disguise themselves as just regular "average 'Joes' and 'Janes'".  You never know who is liable to just go off on you for "saying the wrong thing", or just because they "don't like" how you behave, how you walk, or how you look, or whatever.

You never know who might be slandering you behind your back, who's figuring out how to rip you off----or how to get you fired, evicted, or arrested.  Or who's poisoning or contaminating your food or drink when you eat out (all while acting friendly or cordial face-to-face).

You just never know who may "have it in for you" or why, or whether occasional discordant interactions may have a tinge of discrimination about them.

Everyday life can often be sort of along the same line as the early 20th-century Second Boer war, if you stop to think about it.  

Recent Studies Show The Water Supply Of Numerous Major U.S. Cities To Contain Dangerous Toxins
Actually, I pretty much figured this one out myself a long time ago.

...the rashes I often get and the way my eyes sting after showering

...that I used to only have to change the filter on the BRITA pitcher once every two months.  Now, for the last two years or so, it's once every six weeks

...that I dare not brew coffee with anything but BRITA water.  Otherwise it tastes like a high school chemistry lab project gone awry

...that when I run rinse water in the second basin of my kitchen sink when doing dishes it's always extremely cloudy

As usual, the media only finally gets around to revealing serious problems after they've been ongoing for years.

A Letter to Greta Thunberg

Dear Ms. Thunberg:

I wish to bring to your attention one group you should also be chiding and scolding---slovenly ill-bred pig fuckers misguided plebeians who freely spit, throw trash, and toss cigarette butts on public sidewalks.
One can't even sit down in the bus shelters due to all the half-empty cans, bottles, and fast-food wrappers all over the benches.  And you have all that garbage under your feet wherever you stand.

Before I continue on ...
One fact about the average U.S. proletariat:  their parents never teach them manners and etiquette, nor respect and consideration for others, or how to properly share public spaces.  All they're ever taught is "entitlement".  Everything "belongs to them", and others around them either "Get out of my way!"---or else "You're being inciting", or "You're asking for trouble", should that other person dare to try to stand their ground (or continue doing whatever it is they're doing).

"Respect and consideration for others" are but an onus the lower-caste interlopers of society are on the hook for.  Everyone else seems to be allowed to freely do as they wish without compunction, conscience, guilt, or shame.  Even the upper-echelons are taught "success is a matter of 'favoritism' and 'knowing how to trample others in order to get ahead'".

In short:  
It is my feeling and opinion that these shameless scofflaws are adding just as much to the overall collective "carbon footprint" as are the industries and energy companies you so get all-hyped-up over.
And I'd like to see you give a piece of your mind to this sector of the "private U.S. citizenry" in the familiar trademark manner you've become so famous for.


Sincerely,
Tal Hartsfeld
(disgruntled sociopathic misanthrope extraordinaire)

One thing I've noticed when in coin laundries ....
Why is it some patrons will put their clothes in the machine (especially the washer) and then drive off somewhere?
What if they get in a wreck while they're out?