Friday Rantings

It is 12:35am and I figured I'd blog this while it was fresh in my mind. Did you ever want to punch someone right in their face just because they were so rude? Well, Larry & I were going to a store in a strip mall. The parking there was horrendous. It took us awhile to find a spot. It was a corner spot. I had my turn signal on and was about to turn into it. All of a sudden this asshole man turned the corner, looked at me, smiled as he almost swiped my front end and went in the spot ahead of me. Can you imagine? I turn the corner and pull aside him where the sidewalk was. He looked straight ahead and would not turn his head in my direction. My husband was so angry. I had to stop him because he would have went off on him. This man wasn't worth it.

So anyway, he gets out of the car and puts imaginary blinders on as he walked into a fast food restaurant called Pollo Tropical. (I've never had it before, not really interested in trying it). You had to see him, he would not look either way. He was lucky when he was crossing the parking lot that no one hit him because he didn't even look both ways. Guess he was either extremely hungry or thought they'd run out of chicken. Maybe it was the fact that he knew what he did was wrong and didn't want a confrontation. No matter what the reason, it doesn't excuse his rudeness. Now it is my turn to be rude. Hey chicken guy in the car in Clifton NJ! If you ever read my blog, I got two words for you buddy and they aren't holy moly!

Ah, I feel better now. Time for bed.

Does That Complete Your Order?

I have a bone to pick with the drive-thru service at McDonalds. Well, not really the company, more or less the speaker and person on the other end of the speaker. They may be using cheap equipment, but for the volume that passes through their drive thru, shouldn't they invest a little more money for better equipment? It would even help speed the process along.

For example, this morning I went a different way to work so I decided to stop at the local McDonalds closest to my job. I pull up and this is what happened.

Speaker: "Welcome to McDonald's, may I help you"

Me: "Good Morning, I would like a medium iced coffee with regular milk and 3 Equals"

Speaker: "Does that complete your order?"

Me: "Yes it does."

Speaker: "So we have an egg mcmuffin and a regular coffee with 3 equals"

This is where my lack of patience comes in.

"Born To Run"

Well it was an interesting day yesterday. I had another migraine so I decided to stay home instead of going up my sister's house. I just bummed around the house and took a couple of doses of my "emeralds" - translation Advil Liqui-Gels. I love those things because they work fast. Problem was they weren't working yesterday. I managed to finally shower by 3pm. That was the only time I felt that the water hitting my head wouldn't cause immense pain. When I get migraines...light, sound, smell, everything gets affected. By the end of the afternoon when my hubby got home from work I was feeling halfway decent. I was finally convinced to leave the house because he thought I would "feel better if I went outside". OK. Sure.
We went out for dinner to TGI Fridays. It was a semi-disaster. We know the server so we tried not to complain too much because she is such a nice woman. But they really messed up alot last night. What was going on was that we were at the location that is close to where the Bruce Springsteen concert was playing and it was PACKED. I guess everybody wanted to go to Fridays before they went to see The Boss. I sat there and wished I was going to see The Boss. I don't think I will ever Maybe someday I will get to see him. I want to kick myself in my hind end because I'm from NJ for the love of God. How come I haven't seen him yet? Someday.

Back to our bizarre meal. We ordered Sesame Jack Chicken Strips for appetizer. Thank God we had a coupon for a free appetizer. I swear to God that the portion seriously was less than half the normal size. Did the Bruce people get to it before us? Were they running out and decided to downsize the portion? We didn't say anything because we had the coupon (which they didn't know about...so they weren't short changing us because of that) For dinner I ordered the All American Chicken sandwich which comes with bacon and I asked for mayonnaise on the side. Well when it came out, both the bacon and the mayo were missing. My dinner also came with onion rings on the side. It came with three. I kid you not. They were the size of rubber bands. Three rubber bands. My hubby ordered the Jack Daniels cheeseburger with no tomato and asked for it to be extra EXTRA well-done, burnt to be the exact words he used. Well it came out rarer than rare with a dripping tomato on top of it. It looked like it was hardly cooked. Blech! Now the thing is, everybody makes mistakes. But both dinners were wrong. I got my bacon & mayo 10 minutes before my husband got his well-done burger. I felt bad eating mine while he waited for his. But he insisted because he didn't want mine to get cold. So basically, we sat together & ate at separate times.

Maybe we should have been "Born to Run" - We should have run the hell out of there. LOL! Well I better run myself right into the bathroom and shower and get ready for the day. Back to the grind! Happy Monday everyone :)

Tuesday Commute Thoughts & Rants

I have a long commute to my job. It is 45 miles but takes anywhere from 1hr 15 mins to 1hr 45 mins each way depending on traffic. If any of you have seen the Sopranos "opening" song with Tony driving on the main highway, that is pretty much all I see. So that leaves me with alot of time to "think". Normally, I listen to my Elvis Cd's or to morning radio shows but today, I just "thought". I thought about alot of stuff that irks me. I would like to share it with you all. If you have any of the same quirks or would like to share yours with me, please feel free to comment. I don't mean any disrespect by this list. I just need to post down stuff that has been bothering me as of late.

What bothers me about New Jersey

1. Governor John Corzine and his "Save Our State" plan
2. Toll costs
3. Gas prices
4. Road conditions - holes and construction everywhere!

What bothers me about commuting

1. See above #2 and #3 and #4
2. How no matter how fast you drive, it is not fast enough. If I am doing 60 miles an hour in the slow lane and the speed limit is 55 I get some moron behind me "flashing their headlights" at me. There are 3 lanes to my left, why don't they use them?
3. Inconsiderate drivers
4. Lane changers. Yes, they will get there 1 minute faster!
5. People who don't turn off their turn signal (when it doesn't go off automatically)
6. People who have road rage
7. People who in traffic drive on the shoulder and get away with it
8. In traffic when you move up a foot & the person behind you follows suit and almost rear-ends you each time.
9. The biggest thing that irks me is TRAFFIC!!!!
10. New Jersey congestion on the roadways. Too many cars!!

Now onto Television:

What bothers me about American Idol

1. Randy saying everyone is "pitchy".
2. It actually doesn't bother me because normally it is funny but just had to mention that Paula sometimes just doesn't make sense and everyone is a "bright shining star". Too funny!
3. This does bother me though - how Simon can never let Paula get out what she wants to say & I think that is Paula's problem. He keeps interrupting her & she loses her train of thought.
4. Simon's eye rolls
5. How Ryan always brings us to a commercial when he is eliminating people.

What bothers me about LOST

1. How Charlie is forgotten already. In LOST time, he has only been dead what - a couple of days? The only mention in the last episode was Claire saying Charlie said it wasn't Penny's boat. I'm also perturbed that they didn't show her finding the Drive Shaft ring in Aaron's bassinet and also Desmond hadn't given her the list Charlie put in his pocket when he knocked him out.
2. Jack - just in general (forgive me Jack fans...I can't help it!)
3. Kate ALWAYS having to go on a mission. She can never stay put.
4. The new people that came to "rescue" them.
5. Those whispers

My goodness, what got into me this afternoon. Well, I just needed to "get that out". It is just stuff that bothers me. I want to see if any of you have similar idiosyncrasies like I have or if you have others you would like to share.

I promise my next post will be more positive. LOL! Thanks for "listening" to me vent.