The week that was!
Since it seems that there are still those among you (read Dr.D and Natty) who question the veracity of my conviction to become a prolific blogger, let me immediately dispatch your concerns. I am highly motivated having, over the past ten years off marriage, rendered my wife immune to my rants. Now that I have been granted this opportunity to ‘share’ with a new audience I feel compelled to make the most of this before everyone is lulled by my drivel into wishing that each post was my last.
I am generally chipper and positive in my day to day interactions with people, but I am struck by a trend that I have noticed of late and wonder if anyone else has noticed. The saying ‘common sense isn’t common anymore’ took on new meaning over the past week as I was forced to deal with what I will refer to as ‘cranially challenged’ people. Just seems to me that they tend to crawl out of the woodwork just as soon as you hit that sweet spot of your day where you are most productive.
As the Mad Bull can attest to, I was without my car while he was here because one of these ‘mental minnows’ decided that it was perfectly acceptable for her to reverse in my office parking lot without looking behind her to see if the coast was clear. I always wondered what kind of non-driving fool prompted somebody to invent those proximity warnings that now come mounted on the bumpers of well appointed SUV’s …….well, I found out last Monday.
Then there was the case of the parts lady ‘Margo’ from Rick Case Hyundai in Ft. Lauderdale who spent 10 minutes on the phone with me trying to convince me that because my car is right hand drive, I would need to purchase the left hand fender to replace the right hand one that was damaged. In the marshmallow that is her brain, she was convinced and tried to convince me, that somehow the fact that my steering wheel is on the other side of the car from theirs, meant I needed to order the opposite panel. If anybody reading this is wondering if it does……run, don’t walk, to the nearest asylum and check yourself in.
But today was the crowning glory. I found out that there is a certain island south of Cuba which still depends on the mother country, that cannot renew a passport that bears its name and was issued on it’s behalf by the mother country. If I am losing some of you, that was intentional….if you are still following then I expect you have already come into contact with the phenomenon that is the Immigration Dept. of that Island.
That no two people in this Dept. share the same view or information is amazing when considered against the fact that somewhere inside those hallowed walls there actually exist a written law that addresses this plight without leaving much to the interpreters discretion. The resulting chaos and confusion, not to mention wastage of time might simply be one way of discouraging access, but it should be criminal. How I long for those good old days when common sense and the checking of rear view mirrors prevailed.
OneLove
August 20th, 2003 at 11:59 pm Me too, rude bwoy, me too
August 21st, 2003 at 12:14 am I enjoy your style, but sometimes you lose me and i have to read your stuff over again to get the story. You lost me when talking about the sales lady from Hyundai, and about the passport stuff… Maybe if you explained totally… i read your blogs at 12:00 in the night, so i’m not so quick at that time.
August 21st, 2003 at 8:08 am If the ‘island’ to which you refer is the same one that I am thinking that you are talking about, all I can say is that many of the ‘locals’ generally were supplied with a paucity of ‘commom’ sense. And there seems to be very little logic that can be ascribed to the way in which they carry out their daily activities! In simple terms….nuff eediat deh down deh! As for the lady at Rick Case…..I’m sure you have head to deal with such types in the great USA before. I wonder if she feels that a left handed individual should wear the right shoe on the left foot and vice versa…or is my thinking becoming as confused as hers?? Never mind dssdoc, the world seems to have a propensity to become populated by these types and unfortunately many of them hold jobs in high places! Last but by no means least, there are many writers who use blogs to rant and quarrel. My feeling is that on occasion it is fine, but when people constantly do it, it becomes too negative, seen? Keep on posting rude bwoy.
August 22nd, 2003 at 11:24 pm Wappen to dssdoc?? Me nuh see no post! Or has he retired already…or does the dss code need changing???
August 23rd, 2003 at 9:29 am IMAGINE !!!!
August 23rd, 2003 at 1:25 pm Dr. D & Natty……Please understand that in my desire to co-exist with these turtle people who out-number me on this island, I must continue to provide my services on demand (hell hath no fury like a turle person without HBO)so from time to time my time and my computer become engulfed by this daunting task…..Natty, you know how it is! That said, I was appreciative of the feed back I received and will continue to consider it even as I blog my heartstings out. No worries Dr. D,there is little to fear from me constantly bringing you down with vexed rants….way too much is good in my life to dwell on incidentals. Stay tuned for todays contribution!
August 23rd, 2003 at 4:24 pm Nothing is wrong with a rant, you hear… The Doc was just making the point that when all a person does is rants, well… it is not as good as a more rounded individual, shall we say. I eagerly await the next installment.
August 23rd, 2003 at 6:32 pm Mad Bull is correct dssdoc. If you have to let off steam on occasion, feel free to do so, we all do from time to time. My point was that there are blogs out there in cyberspace that seem to be dedicated to ranting, quarrelling and all the negativity that exists in life (I don’t read those)…after a while it becomes tedious and does little for one’s spirit. That’s basically what I was trying to pont out. Tell de turtle people dem, “soon come!” There has got to be a little more to life than just HBO, nuh true dssdoc?
August 23rd, 2003 at 6:33 pm BTW, seems I tuned in too early for the ‘next installment!’
August 25th, 2003 at 8:03 pm I found your blog extremely funny dssdoc.! Poor soul at the car parts place - obviously they don’t stock the part of the brain that thinks things through! I am also a cryptic writer and have had to try to remember to s p e l l things out, you get used to it. Continue to blog. I’ll continue to enjoy reading in between my blogging times too.