Young People Foolishness at the Dollar General

Today i stood third in a very long line at the only supply store in my town (dollar general) after work, unable to check out and go home because two young men, likely teenagers or maybe 20 years old at most, were trying their luck at getting someone else to buy their snacks for them …

Planting the Russian Pomegranate Tree

When things are wrong in the world and i am powerless to set them right i have 2 choices on what to do with myself instead: hatchet + dead trees or shovel + rock breaking stick. I needed to plant a few trees anyway so i chose to dig a hole. I dug a hole. …

Further Frustration with Humans

I was at a place of business. The door lock was sticking and making it difficult to lock and unlock the door at end and beginning of day. I asked the maintenance man to borrow some wd40. He said he didnt have any and walked away from me while i was talking, leaving me having …

Tea

I spent an hour today wording a sincerely frustrated, come-to-jesus, bring you the logic and point face in its direction email to a company whom until recently was offering a customized monthly tea subscription to customers, i being one of them. The logic being; you cannot email someone and ask them to cancel their own …

A Hypothetical

Hypothetically if a person bought a 1.5 ton object outright with cash and then found themselves in a situation where they were being harassed by bill collectors, their credit was ruined, and that 1.5 ton object was about to be seized by a third party due to “non payment” it might really make that person …

The Battle to Receive the Refrigerator

The refrigerator delivery date was set for one day before thanksgiving. I correctly assessed that they were not coming, just based on past experience. They did not send me an automated text saying the delivery crew was two orders away. Two hours before the end of the delivery window i knew i should have received …

Because Common Sense

I paid 700+ dollars out of pocket to get my eyes checked and have a new prescription put in my back-up pair and a new pair of glasses (so i can still drive while i’m waiting for the second pair to arrive). They told me to stare at a picture of a hot air balloon, …

Dreaming

I was wearing a dark blue uniform, so caked with mud and grime one hardly saw the color. It was caked with mud but also shone with the maroon streaks and splatters of old blood; some mine, some not. There was a ringing in my ears. Everything around me happened in muffled volume. I slithered …