Today is the third time in a row I almost got into an accident turning into the parking lot of my office. I don't understand, if the light is red and all the cars are stopped bumper to bumper, why nobody will stop in front of the parking lot to let me turn in.
See, I move into the middle turning lane and ONCE in a blue moon a car in the lane closest to me will stop and let me turn. But even when that happens its a given the dumbshits in the far lane never stop to let me go. Today was no different.
As I waited impatiently in my turning lane, the light turned red and cars started slowing down. I eagerly tried to make eye contact with each passing car so they would give me the 10 feet clearance for my turn. Car after car went by ... and I started to lose hope. Just as I was about to get nasty with my horn - **ta da** a car in the lane closest to me stopped and gave me the wave. I waved back and started inching my way across the turn and then SLAMMED on the brakes because the douchbag in the next lane (even though he saw everyone stopped) wanted to block my turn. I stopped, he stopped. Then as I thought I had clearance and started turning again, he started inching forward. FUCKING DOUCHBAG would NOT let me turn. So there I was, blocking traffic, perpendicular to the cars and was getting nasty-honked at by everyone. The the guy had the nerve to give me the finger and call me a shitty asian driver out of his window.
I shoulda gotten out of my car and took my baseball bat to his car.
Seriously. WTF?
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
DENIED .... and rejected ...
Something monumental happened today - I, as a full-fledged-bonified-American-Citizen, was stripped from the very freedom that our country was founded on... believed in ... and lived for. Today, I was denied a library card (fuck you Oak Brook library). You heard right. DENIED from a free servicing public library that millions of hard-earned tax dollars go to every year.
After four years of living in Oak Brook I decided to explore the town and get myself a library card. You know, be patriotic, support the library system, read books, learn more and better myself as a US citizen. Once there and a glance at my home address, I was told I did not qualify for a card because my home address was in an "unincorporated area" and that if I did want to purchase one (Ok- I can shell out $5) I would have to pay $480 for the year. $480!!! What are they smoking? Are they on crack? They're going to sell me a FREE service for $480 a year when I live in the fucking town?!?
Baffled by the whole experience, I was sent packing, alone, ashamed and without a goddamn library card. What else is there to believe in and fight for if a tax-paying citizen can't even get a library card in her own town? Didn't George W. Bush push for the "no child left behind" law? I was left behind, denied of my basic right to education and higher learning. With a statistic of US population library card holders at a mere 3%, how dare they shun me away because of some imaginary line that put me in an "unincorporated grid?" I own my home goddammit! I pay my taxes like everyone else, get pulled over like everyone else and pay my tickets like everyone else.
What has the world come to? What else is there to live for? Where is my goddamn library card!?
After four years of living in Oak Brook I decided to explore the town and get myself a library card. You know, be patriotic, support the library system, read books, learn more and better myself as a US citizen. Once there and a glance at my home address, I was told I did not qualify for a card because my home address was in an "unincorporated area" and that if I did want to purchase one (Ok- I can shell out $5) I would have to pay $480 for the year. $480!!! What are they smoking? Are they on crack? They're going to sell me a FREE service for $480 a year when I live in the fucking town?!?
Baffled by the whole experience, I was sent packing, alone, ashamed and without a goddamn library card. What else is there to believe in and fight for if a tax-paying citizen can't even get a library card in her own town? Didn't George W. Bush push for the "no child left behind" law? I was left behind, denied of my basic right to education and higher learning. With a statistic of US population library card holders at a mere 3%, how dare they shun me away because of some imaginary line that put me in an "unincorporated grid?" I own my home goddammit! I pay my taxes like everyone else, get pulled over like everyone else and pay my tickets like everyone else.
What has the world come to? What else is there to live for? Where is my goddamn library card!?
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
When Your Ex Gets Engaged ...
My ex from college just got engaged. I found out in an email from him. First email in three years and he tells me he's getting hitched in October. That was awkward. It's not that I'm not happy for him but this is the same guy that dated me as a rebound from a serious girlfriend and then broke up with me literally with "I could be a great boyfriend. I am a great boyfriend if I'm really into the girl... but to be honest I'm really not that into you." Ouch. That was a fucking knife right in the heart. Did he learn that phrase from Sex and the City?
It's been 6 years since that phrase came out of his mouth and I've since moved on .. but its still weird. I'm not hung up on him but I feel funny. My first thought was "wow, really? why someone else and not me? why are YOU so lucky?" He was a great boyfriend when he wanted to be. He was totally hot and made me dinner. We both had our fair share of issues but who didn't? I remember when he broke up with me. I actually asked him what I could do different so he'd take me back. I made a fucking list of how I would change so he would be my boyfriend again. I think we all know how that ended up.
6 years later as I sit here ... thinking about that man with someone else, I realized I completely castrated myself the day I said I was going to change for a man. People don't change. People can't change. But I was young and naive and unfortunately, years of that behavior has callused me over into a raging bitch.
So back to that engagement thing. I emailed him back and wished him well even though what I really wanted to say was "you fucking asshole. i hope your future babies are born hairy and ugly." But I guess we can't always say what we want, can we?
It's been 6 years since that phrase came out of his mouth and I've since moved on .. but its still weird. I'm not hung up on him but I feel funny. My first thought was "wow, really? why someone else and not me? why are YOU so lucky?" He was a great boyfriend when he wanted to be. He was totally hot and made me dinner. We both had our fair share of issues but who didn't? I remember when he broke up with me. I actually asked him what I could do different so he'd take me back. I made a fucking list of how I would change so he would be my boyfriend again. I think we all know how that ended up.
6 years later as I sit here ... thinking about that man with someone else, I realized I completely castrated myself the day I said I was going to change for a man. People don't change. People can't change. But I was young and naive and unfortunately, years of that behavior has callused me over into a raging bitch.
So back to that engagement thing. I emailed him back and wished him well even though what I really wanted to say was "you fucking asshole. i hope your future babies are born hairy and ugly." But I guess we can't always say what we want, can we?
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