Colds are such a common disease and we all get them a couple of times throughout the year. They are hard to avoid at the best of times, but why is it that some people seem determined to help spread their colds by sneezing and wheezing all over the place? Continue reading
Consistency should be one of the most important things that a chef should strive for in a restaurant. You may have found a dish that you absolutely loved last time you were at a restaurant and have raved about it ever since. When you go back to the same pub or restaurant for the second time, and order the same dish again, you expect it to come out looking and tasting the same as it did the first time around. Continue reading
In many countries all over the world, people are encouraged to do the recycling with various incentives. In the UK, it seems like it is the opposite way around and you are punished if you do your recycling wrong. How many times have you heard of the bins being left behind when a bit of plastic has ended up in the green bin? Or bins being emptied on the lawn and checked randomly to ensure that you have done it properly? This is no way to encourage people to want to recycle! Continue reading
Why does it seem like so many youngsters today appear to have no manners or respect for anything? Is it just me, or do you get a lot of teenagers who swagger around as if they own the world and everything in it? Some older women are frightened of the groups of youths that hang around on the street corners, especially later on at night. Do they not have homes to go to? Many of the kids that are out late at night seem to be in their younger teenage years and should not be skulking around late at night in the first place! Continue reading
This is something that really works under my skin – senseless violence. Even worse, the people who get away with it.
So many innocent lives are taken daily because of other people’s problems. Why are these people not found out and dealt with before something bad happens?
Are we so blind that we do not realize that the people around us are even capable? People pay close attention to their teenagers ever since the Columbine incident, but what about older people? How can a man kill his wife and child at point blank range and no one had any clue that he was going to do this?
In some cases these horrible criminals are caught, other times they are not. I often wonder how these people live with themselves; can they really go on with their life? I hope they suffer and think about those they killed every day.
Keep a vigilant eye on those around you. Watch for any mental break, odd behavior, or stress that could cause anyone in your life to commit a crime that is not in their nature. We need to help those who are suffering, even if they are not going to harm other people.
I certainly do hate traffic jams. I simply cannot understand them. Why do they ever exist? Most of the time you spend hours stuck in a traffic jam but at the end you find there was hardly any reason for one anyway.
One can understand traffic congestion caused by accidents or road maintenance, though perhaps not when one is behind thousand or so cars. Given some down time one can understand such a situation, especially after a good tirade against the drivers or the road maintenance authorities responsible, but most traffic jams are caused not by accidents or sudden damages to road.
In fact nobody knows why they are caused. Some say they are due to small traffic incidents slowing down traffic and then accumulating through a chain reaction. Others believe that they are caused due to temporary bottlenecks snowballing, yet others put the blame on bad weather, poor signaling, etc. etc.
Why can’t all the scientists and researchers find out for certain? After all they are costing economy and everyone involved, meaning you and I, lot of money for gods’ sake!
What I can gather from all the causes counted above is that they are due to people reacting stupidly and acting like a herd. This is in line with what I have seen of other drivers’ behavior from inside traffic logjams.
When you drive a car you cannot act like a herded animal doing what other people are doing. Be independent! Think! If everyone does that, these traffic jams will unresolve themselves in no time. That is my opinion anyway.
Don’t you hate going to retail stores? There are so many annoying things about them that one wants to throw every thing down and return home. There are in fact so many, that I don’t know where to begin.
I shall begin with crowds. These days there so many people at stores that you cannot move or stand still without literally bumping into some person or other. Most of them seem to be utterly clueless why they are there, and what they are supposed to be doing. They seem to be there only to disrupt people who are going about their purchases; you and me.
Then there are the children. If adults are bad, children in retail stores are an absolute menace. Enough said!
Related annoyance is the lines at checkout that crowds create. There is nothing worse than standing at basically the same spot staring at other people’s backs for half an hour or so. Can’t these multi billion dollar revenue generating retail stores increase the number of checkout people?
It is unbelievable, but true; sometimes these checkout people get their sums and product details wrong even with all those computerized checkout machine to help them. Always check your bill.
Why can’t people put their shopping carts in proper holding cages after use? And why is it that store employees never seem to do that? One is almost always forced to look for one and maneuver it back into store to get started.
Most of the salespeople loitering around a retail store are perfectly useless. They are unable to give you a straight answer or recommend products, but stare at you blankly if you ask them a question. Stores seem to recruit the most uneducated people around because they are cheap.
Don’t even think about returning any defective goods, all the trouble and bad blood generated will make it not worth the while even if you succeed in getting a replacement.
That is not all, but for now I will stop at that. Those damn retailers!
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