Why is it?
By blog on Apr. 16, 2009.
Today I feel the need to rant about a few things… and I don’t see a reason not to.
Why is it so hard to find time to read when you have less than one hundred pages left in a book? What is it about the climactic events at the conclusion of a book that seem to create no-free-time-zones? I think it’s partly because when I know I am getting to the end of a book, my entire reading habits change. I go from being happy to pick up the book and read for a few minutes here or there when I get the chance, to demanding that I can only read when I have substantial amounts of time where I do nothing but sit and read. It is so very frustrating to be at this point in the book, and have the fresh new one sitting there.
Why is it so hard to find a good pen? Why is it that whenever I do find a good pen, I invariably lose it or break it somehow? Why am I so picky about my pens in the first place? Why doesn’t that cheap little blue one satisfy me? It does the job, it always works, but no, I have to have a cool pen. A unique pen. What am I? Six? Bah, who knows, but for some reason, I like to have nice pens, even if the only time I write is for shopping lists. But even then, you want to be writing with a nice darn pen, is that too much to ask?
Why are people in queues stupid? Why is it that they either have absolutely no sense of personal space – yes I am talking to you stinky, move back! – or stand so far back that you never get to move forward, in spite of the fact that the schmoozer in front of you is now the front of the queue? I really don’t like standing in line, especially with this new penchant in stores for having queue lines that go back and forth, like sheep in a corral. Yeah, I’m not cattle, thanks. And of course all the store people seem to think they are better than you because you just came out of the queue, how can they not? You just stood in a cattle run for five minutes!
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