I was at the grocery store today and as I was going through the produce section, I went past the potatoes. There were the white ones, the yellow ones, the red ones, the microwave ones, and the foil ones. Wait did I just say the microwave ones and the foil ones?

The microwave potatoes sure did look like a regular Idaho potato that I can buy by the sack full for significantly less. So I inquired further, upon closer examination, the only difference was the microwave potato is it is pre-washed and wrapped in shrink wrap. Are people so fucking lazy they are willing to spend more money on a potato so they do not have to spend the five seconds it takes to wash a potato before sticking it in the microwave? By the simple fact that they sell these pre-washed microwave potatoes it means that there must be a market for them somewhere. How fucking lazy does an individual have to be that, they cannot spend a few seconds washing a potato? Click on Read More / Comments for the rest of this rant.

In an ideal world, people would never have to wait in lines and they would be served immediately. However, we do not live in an ideal world and people do have to wait in line for their turn for a customer service representative to help them. Nobody likes waiting in line and customer service representatives in general do not find enjoyment in finding ways for customers to have to wait in line longer than they have to. No, there is nothing they can do to which will get you through the line faster. They are trying to serve each customer as fast as they can. Your complaining will not help anything and will only make the other people in line behind you to wait longer. Click on Read More / Comments for the rest of this rant.

People will bitch and complain about anything. They will find the tiniest thing and complain about it even if it does not really affect the outcome of larger issue at hand. If you receive a letter in the mail and you call the company who sent it to complain, then you should have a valid point before you start to complain. If the company representative says you will not be charged and can disregard the letter then let it go. Do not keep complaining about the fine print of the letter when you are told you can disregard the letter. If you are going to continue to complain you should have some kind of resolution in mind of what you want done in regards to your complaint. When the company representative asks what they can you do for you after listening to you complain for several minutes do NOT just hang up. It is understandable you that there times when everyone wants to complain about something, hell most of this rant is just one long complain, but if you are going to complain do NOT complain to an over-worked, under-paid company representative and then have no idea what you want them to do for you so you just hang up.

Why must seemingly nice people be such fucking scumbags? All theses scumbags do is make everyone’s life harder and cause people and companies to loose money.

Let’s take for example check fraud.
Why must people write checks they know will bounce and in the end cause businesses to loose money forcing them to raise their prices? When a person writes a bad check, the check will bounce and the business will not get the amount the check was written for. On top of that it gives them more things to deal with when the check bounces increasing their labor hours. It is a little understandable (only a little) when someone writes one check in good faith that the check will not bounce, however when someone goes from store to store writing bad checks they can burn in hell. For those who have intentionally tried to scam a business you can die a slow painful death.

If you ever wonder why you have to provide a drivers license to write a check and why many businesses will not take checks above certain amount it is because at some point they were scammed and someone wrote them a bad check causing them to loose money so to protect them everyone must face the consequences. So if you know someone who passes bad checks, do the world a favor and beat the shit out of them.

The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Why do people bother to rent movies? It currently costs about $4.50 to rent a video while at the same time Walmart has over 100 movies for between $5.50 and $10.00. I will grant you the newest movies cost you about $15 but if you wait a little while even those movies will be less than $10. Even at $15 the movie is only $10 more and you can own the damn movie and do whatever you want with it, you can also watch it many times without worrying about getting it back to the local movie rental store on time. In addition, since it is new you also do not have to worry about brining it home only to find out it is scratched and unplayable.

If you decide you no longer want the movie you can sell it on ebay or for those less technically inclined you can sell it to a store like half-price books which will give you at least a few dollars.

I would surmise that if you were to go to your local video rental store and look at their older movie selection almost every movie on the racks have been in the Walmart bargain-bin at some point and are likely to be in the bargain-bin again at some point. I will grant you there is one exception to this and that is movies distributed by Disney. Disney is positioned in a position where they can get parents to buy their kids their movies at any price, however for the rest of the movie studios they cannot keep artificial high movie prices and they eventually come down to below $10, usually within a year. If you go to Walmart you have a selection of over 100 movies all under $10, with that many movies there has to be at least one you will like.

A possible reason for renting movie could be because the individuals rent the movies do not have a high level of disposable income. If this is the case, then the best solution would be to go to their local library. Most modern libraries in every major and not so major city in America have a library that has DVDs or at the very least VHS tapes. Many libraries are tied to together so if your library does not have the movie you want, there is a good likelihood they can find the movie for you.

Therefore, the question remains, why people bother to rent movies instead of just buying them. If you have any clue why people rent movies I encourage you to let me know by clicking on Read More/Comments below and post a comment.

There is a reason why people will ask for your Drivers license or other proof of ID. Giving your name or phone number is not worth a damn because anyone can get that information and pretend they are that person. When someone asks for an ID it is because they are trying to protect you from someone else being able to take control of your account and doing damage; it is not because they are trying to be an asshole to you.

If the policy says you must provide a photo ID then you must do so, if you do not have a photo ID or do not wish to provide it to the person requesting it then get the hell out and do not complain. The official policy is everyone must have a membership card or provide a photo ID so deal with it or get the hell out. So from now on do not piss and moan to me about having to provide an ID, this the same policy everyone is kept to, no sir you are not the exception so deal with it.

There is one thing I hate worse than someone who merges into my lane without giving me notification by using their turn signal. That thing would be someone who does not use a turn signal and straddles both lanes while they are trying to decide which lane to be in. Even worse than that is when the person is in both lanes they are only going 20mph. in a 35mph zone.

While you are straddling both lanes do not get the idea that I am slowing down because I actually want you to merger into my lane. The reason I am slowing down is because I do not want to be sideswiped while you are try to figure out where the hell you are and what lane you want to be in.

The correct procedure for driving is to pick the lane you want to be in and stay in it. If you must be in another lane make sure you want to be in a different lane, give adequate notification to the drivers already in the lane by using your turn signal and then merge in to the lane when there is enough room to safely merger between cars. The incorrect way is to straddle both lanes and then decide what you want to do.

You have now been informed, so no more straddling the damn lanes.

It’s not my fault you do not know which lane you should be in so do not honk your horn at me like it’s my fault. One day not to long ago, I was driving down a four lane road. I was in the curb lane driving at the appropriate speed during what I would consider light traffic. As I was driving along, I saw a SUV with its right turn signal on. Normally if a car wants to get into my lane and the car is sufficiently in front of me I will ease up on the gas as to slow my vehicle in manner which will allow the car in the other lane to merger into my lane before I approach them. This time it was not the case.

The SUV was right next to me and for me to allow them to merge in front of me I would have had to decelerate in such a manner that would require me to apply brakes. So what did the car do? Did they just wait for me to pass and then merge over, no of course not they have to honk their horn at me like I did something wrong. They thought I was wrong not to slam on my breaks so they could merge into my lane. It was not like there was heavy traffic or I took such an action to prevent them to merge other than keep my current speed.

I much rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.


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