There have been quite a few things rumbling around in my brain lately... many of which I want to write about... quite a few I'm not sure I should write about... and all of that means squat to me because last time I checked this is MY blog and I can write about anything I damn well want to.
That being said... I might offend... if I do... stop reading... because frankly I don't care...
First on the block... Familial Favoritism...
I've seen a few things lately that just make me want to hit people for being so blindly STUPID! I'm not going to name names because its not needed... but it makes me sick to see people ignoring one child and falling all over themselves for another when there's absolutely no reason for it! I mean yeah I get it... if one kid is a total fail at life and can't get out of their own way long enough to stay out of trouble and the other works hard and pays their dues... in that case yeah I can see parents favoring one over the other... there is only so much 'help' you can give before it becomes 'enabling' but come on... When all of your kids are decent, hard working people... there's NO excuse to ignore one of them... And just because one is your kid and the others are your spouses' kids? Still no excuse. When you get married you're supposed to be doing it with the understanding that all the kids are now yours equally, both of you... if you couldn't handle that you should have walked away before walking down the aisle...
GAH!
I could rant on this for hours... it just REALLY jerks my chain and I can't stand to sit and watch it happening... but I have to... not my immediate family so really I have no place to say it to the people who are doing it... thus why I rant here... but it makes it really hard to face people when you can see what's going on and they can't or they refuse to see it the way it is...
Second on the block... Something not so personal...
If people cross the street somewhere OTHER than in a cross walk... they deserve what's coming to them! If a driver hits a pedestrian who thinks its 100% OK to walk out into the middle of traffic then the driver shouldn't be held in any way responsible if they hit the person. In my book that counts as suicidal and thus under the law is not the driver's fault... (Right now it's only not illegal to hit someone in the road if they unavoidably threw them self in front of your car) Come on here folks... pedestrians have to abide by the same rules of the road as drivers... what gives people the right to think that just because they're on foot they don't have to obey the rules that have been set forth, rightly, to protect them??? Every driver is taught and has the expectation that pedestrians will be in the cross walk... WHERE THEY BELONG! Would it really kill you people to walk the 100 yards to the cross walk? It might kill you NOT to... ever think about that?
There are COUNTLESS mornings where I go through Hartford and swarms of people get off a bus and immediately cross the street thinking that its their God given right to do so and on many of those countless mornings I almost hit one or two or TWELVE because I come around the corner, at the designated speed limit, when my light is green and I am FULLY allowed to go, to find them there... sometimes just STANDING there! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!?!?!?!?!?!? Would it really kill you to wait your turn? It very well might kill you NOT to... again... ever think about that?
Then they all have the nerve to get mad at ME because they were somewhere they weren't supposed to be at a time when they weren't supposed to be there! They've even hit the front of my car with their hands or even fists as I stopped because they think they were entitled! EXCUSE ME?????? And it's not one age, race, or creed that's mostly responsible... I get it from young and old, white to black... everything in between! Weren't we all taught in school that we look both ways before crossing the street and that we only cross in designated areas????? I know I was...
*LONG, DEEP BREATH*
I think I ranted enough....
