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special guest post : Paradoxes Are Fun
by guest at 09:35 AM on July 18, 2001
In order to fill the few coveted spots for new Bad Samaritans, I�m allowing some of the applicants to do a very special guest post. Think of it like a trip to the casting couch. This is the first of several such special guest spots, by our friend C. Dodd from Ipse Dixit. Please comment, rate, and judge him, because your feedback is one of the ways I�ll decide who gets lifted from obscurity to Internet Rock-Stardom � as the next Bad Samaritan.
If you are still interested in applying for one of the spots, send an email.
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I am easily annoyed. Perhaps that's not the best way to introduce myself, but there it is. Lots of the little things I see every day just annoy the piss out of me: People, places, things, and - most of all - bureaucrats.
They all get to me.
Some of it no doubt comes from an exaggerated sense of my own ability to do things better than I see them being done. But sometimes there's no exaggeration required. I once heard a guy say that 80% of all questions that begin with the word "Why" can be adequately answered, "because people are stupid." Amen! Is that elitist? Probably. But the simply being elitist doesn't make something false.
I expect that anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows what I'm talking about.... Walk into any DMV office and the odds are better than even that that guy from high school who flunked shop class and now washes cars for a living could figure out a better way to run the place. Which leads one to wonder: What does that say about the people who are running them?
And you really do see it everywhere. Way too many places you go have at least one moron with a trifling little bit of power and the determination to use it to make your life miserable and thereby increase his own sense of importance. And it's always some guy who deserves even the tiny smidgen of power he has about as much as he deserves a knighthood. I've been talked down to by an attendant at the City Dump, but the Sheriff at the front door to the Courthouse is always polite and courteous to a fault.
The thing is, when you're as easily annoyed as I am, you have to develop strategies for coping with all the stupid stuff you see every day or you'll never leave the house. It's really quite a burden to be pissed off everywhere you go. Believe-it-or-don't, the best strategy I've come up with is to be really laid back about most things. Something happens near me. It annoys me. I notice that it's done so. But then I just say to myself, "Well, there's another one" and go on with my day. I only get really frustrated about the things that truly affect me. Anything that's not personal to me can tend to itself - I can avoid most and ignore the rest.
The long and the short of it is that, because I am so easily annoyed, I'm actually a very relaxed fellow. I have to be, or I'd be stark raving mad.
comments (8)
Most pointless babble is fine but yours just sucks so why dont you spend some more time writting your shit and maybe youll fuckin be funny next time
by Disapointed at July 19, 2001 9:18 AM
Did someone say THAT babble, which was well written and I enjoyed even, sucks? "Disapointed" which is correctly spelled DISAPPOINTED btw, after the day I had, the only "fuckin funny" thing I read was your comment! DUH! "Disapointed" = ONE OF THOSE DAMN STUPID PEOPLE THAT ANNOY THE HELL OUT OF ALL OF US! (ya think he/she is just upset because their writting ability does not extend past the second grade?) :0) GAWD HELP US! Sorry, but that was just plain ignorant, and ignorance I cannot let go "un"atoned for!
by Pristine at July 19, 2001 7:50 PM
yes, it is funny babble, & well written to boot. i can only cringe wondering why this disapointed [sic] individual didn't spew any of his/her disgruntlement at *my* pointless babbles as expressed in later entries. actually, come to think of it, this babbling did have a point, whereas mine didn't...
by kd at July 19, 2001 8:12 PM
I relate to the author's impatience with the DMV morons and other assorted idiots who test your patience. I don't think the author was trying to be funny here and I think KD missed the point entirely. It was a decent article, well written and it flowed easily. As for babble, I think KD works at the local DMV.
by Brent at July 19, 2001 9:01 PM
I must agree with Brent, kd and Pristine, I think the first comment by Disapointed [sic] has missed the boat. It has failed to notice the point of the comment. The comment was not intended to be a damn laugh-riot, rather it was intended to be mildly amusing while quickly providing some description of the author. I believe it achieved its objective and did so using situations with which we can all relate. I enjoyed this one.
by Dalsimer IV at July 19, 2001 9:52 PM
If life immitates art, and literature is art, and if a million monkeys were sitting at a million typrwriters,one of them would re-create the works of Shakespeare, so should we immitate monkeys? I don't think so. Not everything I look at on the web needs to be funny, it just needs to be well written, and worth the time to read. This guy has a good point about annoyances, and he didn't even hafta get all potty-mouthed about it...
by Brut4c at July 19, 2001 10:30 PM
Jeepers creepers some people got touchy on this one. Here's my report card:
Style: B+
Substance: A-
Grammar & spelling: B+
by snaggle at July 20, 2001 10:54 AM
Heard it all before, every two-bit stand up does this routine about the DMV. I guess the only originality is the high level of self-involvement the writer has, but ego-maniacs are a dime a dozen on the web.
by please try again at July 23, 2001 11:45 AM