for st. peters sake

you when your tired a lot of things can easily get under your skin. such as why won't this html work? I wanted a pretty font for my title at the top of this blog and would it work? No. But that's just as well because I am not a techie or computer junkie so sitting in front of a computer reading computer language is annoying and what's even more annoying is trying to figure out why the computer will not input the font I want and display it when i push "preview". How many of us experience things like that? Like when we're registering for a class or typing out a really long e-mail and right when we hit "send" KABLAAM that cute little time bottle or spinning beach ball pops up and then it says "cannot connect to the server" and then you hit the back button and then all your data is lost. And then it just about feels like the end of the world.

Speaking of registering for classes, 7:30 in the a.m. I was snug in my bed just chilling. Probably dreaming of a vacation or something and what happens? My phone rings and not my cell phone but my home phone. Yeah, ANNOYING because it's right by my head so I can't ignore it and so I have to pick it up. So it's my friend/neighbor and she asks if i'm awake, well now I am. Does she apologize for waking me up? NO! The disingenuous-ness of it all. I couldn't believe it. anyway she wanted to use my computer/internet to register for classes so of course being the nice person I am, I conceded. But when she came over like 30 seconds later she didn't know how to use the computer. Being tired, I was irritated. And normally I would help but instead I just pretended to sleep on the couch. Sorry.

So being woken up really early to use your things is irritating but not as irritating as being hovered over at a restaurant by your server. So you go out to eat to relax and enjoy a nice meal but when you feel your server is sucking up to you for who knows what reason- it really puts you off. I can forgive the fact the server sorta hit me in the head with the tray, ok stuff happens but when I go to look for her to try and coordinate a little birthday song for my friend, you shouldn't hide behind the wall and have your friend tell me you busy when I can see you and then when you come out singing happy birthday don't sing to the wrong person (i.e. me) after I described my friend to you in detail and after you carded me for a drink at the table- so clearly you knew it was not my birthday. I can understand after all that being a tad embarrassed, thatmakes complete sense, but it also mak sense that we're not going to have a perfect 10 dining experience either. And for St. Peter's Sake don't ruin our last morsal of potentially good quality time together by hovering over us so we'll give you the check. 1 - it's considered rude 2 - it's empty and there is no line for a table and 3) you don't close for like 3 more hours. And then now that we're feeling extremely awkward we have no choice but to leave. Well I'm just a tad irritated that I was bumped around, sucked up to while you asked me like 10 times how I was doing and then finally pushed out really fast. I think you need some better training. And maybe I should have had japanese food.

Speaking of training, I hesitate to go into this right now, but have you seen some of the drivers out there on the road lately? I mean seriously, who taught you how to drive? Have you taken a class? Most drivers appear to be driving with their eyes closed. Speed limit is 45 and they are driving 35 and in the middle of two lanes or they are driving 90 in and out of cars. Which I admire because I wish I was that adventurous to try but at the same time i want to wish some sort of illness on them. It's scary driving beside them because you never know when they will fly out in front of you or just slam on their brakes for no apparent reason and then they'll fly over into another lane and let you ram into the stalled car they just avoided. Actually what ticks me off the most is not using a signal. Why are they on your car if you are not going to use them? Let me know you're coming over. I can't read your mind buddy, put your arrow on and I will do my best to let you in. It's like people think signaling is the spawn of satan so they instead just decide to wait until the last possible moment to jump in front of you and scare you into a heart palpitation. I love that. And what I love more is brake lights that don't work. That is seriously my favorite thing ever.

I know drivers don't just hang around on the backs of their cars but I think they should more often because then they will understand why people ride so close to them in traffic. I have come so close to hitting people in traffic because their brake lights didn't work and even though I left enough room and I slowed down when they did I had no idea they were actually stopping, I just thought there foot must have been off of the gas. And if I did hit them it wouldn't solve the problem, their brake lights would still be out and my car would be out of commission.

Oh but what I think is so cool while driving is smoking. I'm really just a big fan of smoking anyways so when I see a hand with a lit cigarette dangling outside of a rolled down window it's just awesome because now the the chemicals that I never wanted to smell in the first place are drifting into my vents and I have to unwillingly smell them. Isn't that the best, who here agrees? Let's take a poll, if you like to unwillingly smell cigarette smoke while driving raise your hand... I thought so. So this is what I think, again this is my opinion... (but I think it's brilliant mostly because I'm biased) I think all of the driving smokers need to roll up their windows and smoke inside their own car. It's one thing not to care about burning up their own lungs, but it is very inconsiderate to not thing about the healthy of others. So next time you light up and you have the health of the world in your hand - I beg you to please be considerate and not subject the world to the stench. Of course the smoker may argue that they don't enjoy the lingering aroma the tobacco leaves over everything... well I say...you should quit because cigarettes smell and that's just a fact.

well i've ragged on a lot of people today. and i definitely have issues.
irritating quality of the day: I drive way too close to people (ask my dad).
redeeming quality of the day: when I was in the 5th grade I was in PAL and I directed traffic at my school's parking lot, ever since then I thought it would be so neat to become a crossing guard. I like kids and I want to keep them safe.