I really hate stupid people

So two days ago I talked to what has to be the dumbest person I'd ever talked to. I was at work. And on the whole at work I usually talk to pretty bright people or at least people who can communicate and live with the majority of society and not piss half of us off. This guy on the other hand....dear goddess help me please when dealing with people like this guy.

At the end of the 30 minute conversation I was praying that he was just fucking with me and not really that stupid. No really I was. I was half tempted to tell him to cut out the bullshit and stop acting like a moron because I really really hoped that he was just a VERY good actor and pulling my leg just to get his jollies.

The reason he called in? He needed to know how to send a text message, ok fine. I know not everyone deals well with technology (though my mom figured it out with out calling HER cell phone provider OR me). So that part of the call was ok. I easily walked him through the steps and he seemed to get it.

Then he mentioned how he liked that the "keys [were] hid" on his phone. Yes congrats you have a slider phone they are great I love mine too. Then he wanted to know about OTHER Samsung phones.... ok you JUST bought this one and you haven't even really used it yet (I know because he set it up and called into us) but you want to know about other phones...fine. I give him the run down on other samsung phones. He asks which one I like best, well I don't really like telling someone which phone they should pick because if they don't like it they call back in and bitch because the person who told them about the phone didn't tell them about X (insert grip here).

So I tell him maybe he should go to the store, there he can see what kind of phones they have available and see which one he likes the most. He finally sees that this is a great idea, bad news...no my company corp owned stores in his area. But wait there is a Target... I tell him let me give you the number so you can call and make sure they have the phones you want to look at (he had narrowed it down to a couple based on my descriptions)

This is the part where I decided I'd rather take a spoon and dig my eye out than stay at work and talk to him. I give him the number to Target 856-623-2068...So it's 856-23-0286....no, no it's not. I repeat it 8.5.6....6.2.3....2.0.6.8, Ok I got 856-23- is the zero before or after the two......it's after....ok so 0268?.....*me starting to look like an insane person because my eyes are growing wide* No it's 2....0....6....8. Ok so is the zero before or after the two?....ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME?!?!?! I'm not kidding I read the number off PAINFULLY slow. I gave him PLENTY of time between each number to write it down directly as I was speaking it.

Now before anyone posts nasty bitchy things to me. Yes I know that perhaps he was dyslexic I did think of that. However he claimed the acct was in his name and you have to be 18 to have an acct in your own name so there for by this time in his life you would HOPE he has at least had some kind of teaching that allows him some tricks as to how to live and cope with dyslexia if that is indeed his problem and not just years of inbreeding. I'm not kidding you I read that number well over 20 times to him. I said each number again with so much time in between so that he could just start fresh and write down the number as I said it and not have to worry about which was in front of what.

And after all that...after saying them so slow an arthritic grandmother who has alzheimers would memorize the number. He didn't get it right. I lied to him. I'm sorry it was awful of me but he just.didn't.get.it. He didn't there was nothing I was going to say that would help him figure out what the fuck the number was. He was simply an inbreed idiot from Alabama

Why do we care?

Why do we care what others think of us? What is the purpose of it? It serves to make us feel bad or insecure or worried. Others judge us and it can do damage to our self esteem. If you are happy with you then be happy. Don't worry about what others think. Don't spend your life hiding who you really are because someone somewhere may not approve.

I'm not sure exactly who said this and I'm not exactly sure if it was worded this way. But the general idea I like.

The people that are worth it won't care and those that care aren't worth it.

The people in your life that choose to dislike you over something that is inherently you just aren't worth it. The people who choose to judge you and make assumptions of you because of rumors and hearsay aren't worth it. The people who are worth it are those that know you to the core and love and accept you for exactly who you are and actually KNOW who you are instead of thinking they know anything about you.

I have a lifestyle that not all understand or approve of. Some think that because I live this way I will attempt to steal someone away from their SO. It's just not the case no matter how much I care for someone I would never attempt to steal them. If they came willingly well that's another story. :D My dad cheated on my mom for a great many years and saw nothing wrong with it. He put my mom's health at risk and it's just not something I have the desire to do. I don't want to be the "other woman" to any man.

But regardless of what I say or how I say it some people will always assume that because of my lifestyle I'm a man stealer or want to be and you know what I just don't give a flying monkeys ass what they think. I did. But it's something I've had to start dealing with within myself. Why do I care what good is it for me to worry about what someone else thinks of me. They certainly aren't my friends so what does it matter? And in the end I realized it doesn't. So to those that think poorly of me and don't know me well kiss it because I am just not going to let it bother me anymore.

Thanks and have a great day!

Another rant.

On a forum I read someone posted about their child being in a school play and about the costume that all the little girls wore and how she, the mother, disagreed with the costume. It was your typical dance outfit a leotard and tights. The mom had a problem with the fact that they were nude tights and a black leotard. Now this is typical of nearly any dance studio that you could sign your kids up for.

This mom in particular was very unhappy at seeing her kid in this outfit (she didn't see it until her daughter was on stage at the performance). I'm sorry but I honestly just do not see the problem. Now many may disagree with me. But I think as a nation we can censor our kids and what they see too much.

What is so wrong with a child in a leotard and tights. She was upset particularly because they were nude tights and not black or something. But that costume usually hides all the necessary bits. I don't think I've ever seen a child look scandalous in that kind of a costume. And she wasn't even a solo act she was dancing with a number of other kids all in the same costume. Now some might say that "oh noes but a child molester might have seen them" I'm sorry but someone looking for kiddies is going to find something to get their kicks off to no matter WHAT the kid is wearing. They could be in jeans and a long sleeve shirt (or a floor length skirt for those that feel pants are more provocative) and some sick fuck into kids could still think horrid things about them.

We have gotten to an age (as a country) where we are far to paranoid that the worst is going to happen. (no the woman who put up the post that got me on my kick didn't suggest anything other than she thought it indecent I'm just ranting) I am sick and tired of it. I'm sorry but kids wearing dance outfits aren't going to become sluts or automatically going to signal some sicko somewhere to track them down. Nor are kids playing video games going to automatically go out with a gun because when they die there is another life to bring them back.

We need to parent our children but not encase them in bubbles that shatter upon their entry into the adult world. We need to help them make good decisions not take away the option to make any. We need to calm down and realize that while bad things do happen and you can protect yourself and your family unless you move to the wilderness and go back a few decades there is always the chance that something will happen.

We are raising a generation of children with two extremes and neither is good. To either protect them so much (like I could see happening in the case of the mother and daughter mentioned above) or to not parent them at all. We need to find a compromise and we need to change our way of thinking as a nation. It's not good to be so damned paranoid.


Also...I like what this person said.

Crotch Inspections?!?!

The article that sparked this rant

What the every livin fuck is wrong with these people?!?! Who in their right mind would STRIP search a THIRTEEN year old girl?! I don't care male or female what happen here is just flat out ridiculous. A school vice-principal decided that because a student (who had herself been caught with the horrible drugs! you know ibuprofen *gasps*) pointed her finger at another girl as the source of said "drugs" that girl should be strip searched to find more drugs.

This girl was an honor student with no record and yet, after she willing subjected her backpack to be searched (where nothing was found,) was forced to pull her undergarments away from her body to see if any drugs would fall out. She wasn't even allowed to call her mother. Who the hell things these actions were the best course they could take?! They aren't even denying it. They aren't accusing the girl of embellishing they simply just think they are in the right to ask some young girl in the presence of 2 women to strip to her undies and then pull them away from her body.

And get this, and I'm sorry but I am disgusted by this, 2 judges on the U.S. Courst of Appeals found no fault with this.

This whole thing disgusts me. The people who started this and then found no fault with it are morons. I would do anything I could to get the principals of this school out of their positions. They just have no right to be enforcing or requesting these measures.

Dear church going people of Marshfield MO,

The news that started this rant

Why oh why do you have to make a fuss about stupid things? What is the point of petitioning a store to remove alcohol from it's shelves? Do you believe that by walking into the store you will be drawn to the isle with beer, somehow forced beyond your will to pick up a 6-pack, put it in your cart, purchase it, and then go home and consume it when you don't truly want to? No? That's not what you expect? Then why ask a store to take it off it's shelves when there are those that willingly choose to purchase and consume it?

God gave us all free will, the ability to chose for ourselves. What makes you so high and mighty that you need to take from us our GOD GIVEN RIGHT to make a choice? When did you surpass the knowledge of the Almighty? Please tell me when you were given power by the Alpha and Omega to take from His children the ability to make choices in our lives.

Now some may think that perhaps I am going a bit overboard. After all this is just one store in one town in one state....right now.

My fear is these are the same people who want to ban books from the library because they don't agree with the contents. After all if they can't stop themselves from buying the alcohol they don't want to drink how will they stop themselves from reading books they don't agree with? There are classics that have been banned from the libraries. Books like I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Blubber by Judy Blume, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. These have all been banned at some point or another. Simply because someone out there has a problem with some of the content and they want to take away the right others have to chose for themselves what they want to read and how they want to think.
“[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” — Judy Blume

These are the people who think that gay marriage will somehow destroy families. I'm sorry but how is providing gays (you know those people who don't sleep with the opposite sex anyway) the right to have a civil union in any way going to destroy families? They aren't going to have kids anyway, or they will adopt or have surrogate parents. Which they are able to do now but they don't have the support of the law. If a couple has been together for 25 years and one of them ends up, God forbid, in a coma and they aren't married the parents of the partner in the coma can refuse to let the other half even SEE them in the hospital. The person they have been in love with and living with for 25 years is shoved out of the hospital unceremoniously with no legal recourse simply because the law (and church goers) think that somehow this couple is going to ruin families. The parents of the half that's in a coma can make the decision to pull the plug without ever giving their partner the chance to say goodbye. Would ANY married person allow someone to pull the plug on their spouse without the option to say goodbye?

My main issue is these are baby steps. Our President has taken steps to push abstinence only instead of teaching the kids in school about safe sex. Yes abstinence is good IMO for those who aren't mature enough to make a real decision but just teaching abstinence isn't going to do any long term good. Child and teen pregnancies are going up. Girls are 6 times more likely to give blow jobs now and 4 times more likely to do anal. Let me tell you, there aren't many guys out there that will complain with those options.

When is it going to stop. When only books must be approved by a government/church appointed committee. When they confirm our fragile minds are capable of reading them without forming our own thoughts? When they ban abortion again? They are already taking baby steps there because after all if they can ban partial birth abortion it's just baby steps backwards for all of it. When they decide that this separation of church and state is just silly, after all if England can have a Church why can't America. And what about this whole immigrant issue. I mean I'll be damned if the country founded on immigrants is gonna let anymore in. Why that's just silly. This is America only Americans should live here. You know those white people who look "normal". After all differences just aren't to be tolerated. That's not what our country was founded on. We need to be good strong church going people with no choice in the matter...right?

So this is what it's like...

I will warn you, gentle reader, that this is going to be a very whiny post and I'm quite aware that once I get over my little pity party I will see just how silly I am being but until then I feel quite justified in my feelings so you get to read about my pity party. That being said if you don't want to read this now that you've gotten past the warning I really don't give a shit.

So this is what it's like to realize that the people you thought were friends to both you and your husband are largely just his friends....if that. People that came to birthday parties and get togethers to pay on the Wii are unable to make it to a party billed as slightly different. While we likely still would have played the Wii (and those that do make it will still play) the invites went out a bit differently. For one they were hand made by yours truly. I put thought and effort into them in hopes that people would like them. It wasn't a by word of mouth party it was a real invite with an RSVP. Which by the way only one person RSVPed (Thanks Greg). The rest just ignored the request of an answer. A big fat screw you! Why thank you. I'm always glad to see that no one gives a flying fuck about me. *big sarcastic grin* My husband had a birthday party a mere 7 months ago and the same people were invited save for I think one couple. I think everyone invited was in attendance.

Now I do realize that a birthday party is a story of a different color and that people may feel the need/desire to go to a birthday party rather than one for no real reason however the same people were also invited to MY birthday dinner and a handful of invitees attended. Not that those that came are unappreciated I love the people that came to my dinner I'm glad they came and I enjoyed their presence but it just sucks NOW that out of the 20+ people invited to my party I believe a grand total of 6 are coming and 2 of those also made other plans that night and thus will be here for an hour...maybe two. I know I'm not the end all be all of people or parties but damnit it would have been nice if you know a few more had come.

Ok I think I'm done spewing my bile onto the intarwebz.

driving

I'm coming home from buying a book and I'm in the center lane to turn onto my street. There is a car in front of me and a car on my street assumably waiting to turn onto the main street I'm currently in the middle of. Now one would again assume that when you turn onto a street from the middle of the main road you aren't going to be stopping but will continue on at least until there is a place to turn correct? You normally wouldn't stop as soon as you turn onto the road right next to the car that is waiting to turn off of the same road so that you can hand something out your damn window to the person in the other car! Well that is what happened to me today. I had to swerve to avoid hitting the idiot that stopped in the middle of the road when she turned onto my street. I honked my horn at her before pulling into my driveway. Now as I'm getting out of my car she is using the driveway across the street from me to turn around. She only pulled onto my street to pass something out her window to the idiot in the other car. And she took the time to yell out her window at me that I needed to get off my phone and learn to drive...because apparently it is very normal for her to STOP WHERE THE STREETS CONNECT!!!! So I lowered myself to her standards and told her to go to hell before walking into my house.

But on a good note the book I bought was very good I enjoyed it lots even though my friend didn't. She was sad about one point that, for her, undid the good point that happened.