Sweet & sour sauce? This is the latest item I was behind the curve on. Since when did sweet & sour sauce become crucial to surviving a pandemic? It is not to be found in central Iowa. Add to this flour, paper towels, alcohol wipes, hand sanitizer. Gun sells are going gang busters I understand. People’s true colors come out in a crisis, and its not looking good. I know even before the Great Pandemic the idiosyncrasies of the average Joe were wearing on me.
I’m a ‘color between the lines‘ kind of guy, so when I see people purposely not trying to get along, it bothers me. People who won’t put their shopping cart in the corral. People at a Walmart who go in the ‘out’ door and out the ‘in’ door. Men who spit their chewing gum into the urinal. Smokers who will dump their car ashtray into the stall in the parking lot before driving away. People who leave their car running while pumping gas, I wouldn’t care if they blew themselves up, its their disregard for others that bothers me. People who sit their empty drink cup on a ledge like its not littering if they don’t toss it on the ground.
And one of the most irritating, people who run their year tag on their license plate vertically, when they know damn well its supposed to be placed on top of last years. These irritating quirks were going on way before the pandemic. People didn’t suddenly become assholes, they’ve been that way for awhile. I’ve read a number of articles where an “expert” tries to explain the compulsive stockpiling of an item, and while they sometimes touch upon a truth, I don’t see where they’ve really nailed it. I think most of these hoarders are just assholes.
I don’t think its some deep psychological need because their mother didn’t love them as a child. I think its more because their father didn’t beat them enough when they were bad.
“Freedom is not something that can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.”
— James Baldwin
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