Weekly Rant

Looks like I might have to make this a weekly or semi-weekly feature. I usually try to let things go, but I ruminate on them and then it just kind of gets to me. So perhaps by expunging them here, I’ll feel better.

You may have heard, but on Sunday, some jackass hijacked a big rig truck and a police chase ensued. The chase started in Fairview, TX, which is about 10 minutes from my house, and spanned four hours, three counties, and finally ended out near Weatherford, TX. Related to this:

Rant 1: This was probably the third vehicle he’d hijacked that day. How could he have hijacked two other vehicles and NOT been seen by a member of the public or the law and been allowed to even GET to the big rig hijacking. Has the public level of apathy sunk so low? Is it that we just don’t want to get involved?

Rant 2: During the portion of the chase that went through the southern portions of Dallas, there were hundreds of people stopped on the side of the road and on bridges, out of their cars, causing traffic delays and endangering themselves and others that were rooting for the car-jacker. One of these yahoos was interviewed and I quote “I was excited. I heard that they were shooting at him, so I wanted to get out and see bullets flying, man. You know?” one bystander said. What the HELL!?!? Get some damn sense people! This is funny? This is smart? This is cool?

Secondly, I received an envelope in the mail full of paperwork. For Zed’s first year in Junior High. I dread the begininning of the school year and all the paperwork that has to be filled out. You fill out 10 of the same forms, over and over again, and you have to do it every year. I think some of them are the same form and go to the same place, they’re just on different colored pieces of paper. You get writers cramp, and then you find more forms! Insurance forms, volunteer forms, PTA forms, band forms, forms, forms, forms! I hate paper. Someone needs to figure out a better system.

Thirdly, when you’re a female, and you get married and you want to change your name, it’s a complete pain in the butt. First it’s the social, then it’s the drivers license, then it’s the bank accounts, the credit cards, the frequent whatever accounts, and even your work email address. Seven months in and I’m still not done. Someone needs to figure out a better system.

Love ya’ll! Mean it!

Update: The DMV sucks. Don’t ever try to go at lunch, because they send all their whatever they ares to lunch at the same time. And people pack in, and then when they come back from lunch, there are only two whatever they ares to actually help people. And then you sit for an hour and a half, only to leave when they are 13 numbers away from yours because you have a meeting in twenty minutes and you still haven’t eaten lunch. So you stop at a crappy fast food restaurant on the way back to work, throwing money at the drive-thru person and speeding away. Oh, and then you come back to work to find that your meeting is an hour later than when you thought it was.