Nobody likes to see rude and inconsiderate behavior, but it seems especially thoughtless when it costs nothing to be civil. I’ll give you an example or two that paints a picture using traffic in the Augusta area, but it happens everywhere. Picture Washington Road in the Martinez area. It’s typical for cars to be backed up from the intersection at …
What’s with the bleeping???
Today’s I Hate Monday is a bleep-free rant about bleeps. This is The Age of The Bleep. Someone should institute an annual Bleeping Award – except that it would be a decidedly dubious distinction to win it. What is with all the bleeps? Please don’t misunderstand me: this is not about censorship. It’s about people whose vocabulary is so stunted …
I Hate Monday
I’d like to share a loathing with you today. This is a true-life experience that happened to me just three days ago. Living in the south, we know all about weeks on end with triple-digit temperatures and humidity. So it’s always great when fall arrives and we can again open our windows. Even if it’s still warm during the daytime, …
I Hate Monday
Hello, Washington D.C? This is a real-life lesson in compromise and conflict resolution. In March 1992, Southwest Airlines started using “Just Plane Smart” as an advertising slogan. Stevens Aviation, whose motto was “Plane Smart,” threatened Southwest with a trademark infringement lawsuit. Instead of a going to court, the CEOs for both companies staged an arm wrestling match set for three …
I Hate Monday
As a general rule, I hate criminals. The worse the crime, the more despicable the act. How loathsome is the person (or group) who decides to go to a mall or office building or school or theater and shoot to kill every person they see, man, woman or child? That puts terrorists in an especially hate-worthy category. Even so, there …
I HATE MONDAY
Do you realize this subject could take over this blog? There are so many things that are truly and deservedly worthy of our hatred. Terrorism. Cancer. Child abuse. But seven days of hate times fifty-two weeks would be more negativity than I could tolerate. Dedicating one-seventh of this space to something that isn’t lovable is plenty. What’s today’s target? Here’s …
I Hate Monday
I see this kind of thing everywhere. It makes me sad. The drawing (which is available on a Woot t-shirt) suggests that people could be in the middle of the Grand Canyon or Yosemite and all its majesty and still be glued to their screens. I am quite sure that happens there every day. But take a look at this …
I Hate Monday
Allow me to state right off the bat: this I Hate Monday is pure trivia. It’s nothing vital and important, like I hate war or I hate cancer or I hate people who take more than 15 items into the express check-out lane. No, in the grand scheme of things this is inconsequential. Still, it’s annoying. What am I talking …
I Hate Monday
Let us today celebrate our shared contempt for rude people, be they co-workers, patients, customers, receptionists, complete strangers in traffic or in stores, telemarketers, bill collectors, or even family members. And let us remember this extremely important fact: rudeness is contagious. But it doesn’t need to be. Fight the urge to return rudeness for rudeness. It is a battle that …
I Hate Monday, Monday Edition
Last Friday I had many miles of roads to cover around Aiken and Augusta and, although this might be a wee bit of hyperbole, it is unintentional, I assure you: I think 90% of the traffic lights I encountered were RED. And they were reds of the most annoying variety, like: A.) the light that turns red one second too …