Could someone – anyone – please tell me why stores and businesses have double doors and yet keep one side locked all the time? What is up with that? Is it even legal? If there was a fire and people were in a panic to get out, what could happen? And even on an ordinary, slow, I Hate Monday with …
I HATE MONDAY
Admit it: we have all been in this predicament once or twice. Ain’t it hateable?
I HATE MONDAY
Know what I hate today? Actually, every day? Selfishness. Sad to say, this is a trait all of us exhibit from time to time in ways large and small. The trivial and unintended ways people display a me-first attitude can be forgiven and forgotten without a second thought. But what about major acts that display self-interest to the extent that …
I Hate Monday
It’s nothing personal, Monday, really. I like you as well as I do any other day of the week – if not more. Monday gets enough grief as it is. But this weekly feature has nothing to do with the day of the week. It’s just a weekly rant about all things worth despising, from cancer to people who don’t …
I Hate Monday
What’s hateworthy this week? Today is, although in all fairness, I Hate Tuesday might be more appropriate this week. Together they present a potent and lethal one-two punch. To what am I referring? The most deadly few hours of the entire year on the roads are the first few hours of the year, early tomorrow morning. People will get tanked …
I Hate Monday
I hate to rain on everyone’s parade, but this I Hate Monday will focus on The Big Day, aka tomorrow, aka Christmas Day. The thing about Christmas – and saying anything negative about it – is that in the eyes of most it’s a sacred day. On the one hand, it’s widely viewed as the holiest day on the Christian …
I HATE MONDAY: Funerals, Part II
There’s a lot to hate about funerals. That has recently been noted in this very space. It is widely said that death is “natural,” but nothing seems more unnatural than death. Broadly speaking, it is the saddest event humans experience. It’s sadder still that we face it so often until, finally, others experience it when we die. There is something …
I Hate Monday
As we do every Monday here at the sprawling world headquarters of the Medical Examiner, we examine something worthy of disliking. Sometimes we go heavy-duty; sometimes even we admit it’s a little trivial. Where does today fit in? You decide. Let’s say you’re on the way to an important meeting. You’ve left plenty of time; there’s no rush, but we …
I Hate Awkward
As this clip proves, awkward can strike anywhere, at any time, without warning.
i HATE funerals
Wherein we have another installment of I Hate Monday. Today the spotlight shines on those saddest of all occasions, funerals. This topic weighs heavily on my mind today: the friend I wrote about (in “Quitting: Reason No. 73,” below) died earlier today. My friend Kelly is at least now free from the pain and torture that years of cancer and …