Somewhere In Between

Jason I sure hope I don't get on your hate list.As for customers in general. The poor things have to be pitied.They have all done exactly as they were told and taken their brains out and put them in a jar by the front door before leaving home. Nothing else would explain why they walk into a Video store and say, "Do you have videos?"Or my personal favourite, "I want a nice video."The temptation to tell them we only have nasty videos is very hard to avoid.Yes we need to bring back some form of education instead of the mindless dumbing down of the population. We could start by making AwesomeDude and Codey's World websites compulsory reading for everyone, assuming they have been taught to read of course. On drugs and doctors, I always tell the doctor that I have arrived for a CONSULTATION with him and that I will take his advice and then find a way to avoid following it by looking at the alternative treatments. The good doctors will respond with a surprisingly helpful attitude as they too are sick to death of the drones that look for a magic pill to cure everything. Of course I have run into one or two doctors who accused me of trying to tell them how to do their job, and that I am paying them to do that work, to which I reply that I am not something to be worked on but worked with, as it is my health they are supposed to be helping, not their bank account.So I get second opinions, mainly mine. My cardiac surgeon admittedly to me last consultation that I was doing a better job at managing my arrhythmic heartbeat than he could. Hooray for me.Also there are natural alternatives to Viagra and other much less dangerous herbs and supplements to keep one stiff before rigor mortis sets in. The Chinese doctors are experts in sex and always ask about your sex life because as one of them told me once, "If you're otherwise intact body isn't functioning sexually, you aren't healthy."But as with any health problems check with your qualified physician and then follow your own feeling in the matter. On TV, don't watch it, except for Boston Legal.If you do watch TV, record what you want to look at and then when you play the recording you can fast forward all those mindless advertisements and community announcements.Yes Jason hate is an all-consuming horrid tool of the forces from the dark side. Look for the bright side. the love and cheeriness so practised by my beloved bf, when children dribble ice cream all over the DVDs while screaming inanities at the top of their immature voices, in the video store. He goes over to their parents and let's them know that he thinks their little darlings "want to go home, now!"The only thing worse than anal leaking is anal vomit.By the way do you mind if I gasp for air whilst fucking? Great Blog Jason I really enjoyed it, but I am sorry you have to put with the unthinking rigors of the public Zombies.

Gosh, Jason. I was going to respond to each of your points in turn, but I've thought the better of it. I don't hate, but I carry about a healthy supply of "despise", and I'd suggest you do the same. Hate is much too personal, but despise is a 'fit all' type of thing.As you may know, I worked for years, decades even, in a post office. I've had some mindless stunners. "How much is a 50 cent stamp?" is probably the stupidest, although, "Do you sell stamps?" is a close second. I can almost forgive them for the second question, since they've gone to marketing just about anything stationary related, and even Christmas decorations.Without a doubt though, the worst comment by a customer that I've ever heard put me close to the hate position, but fortunately I was saved by the fact that it was not directed at me. A moronic goon waited in the checkout line-up at a drug store, right in front of me. He got to the clerk, who asked him if she could help him, as he wasn't carrying any purchase for payment. He said that he needed film for his camera, and could she please get him some. She asked him what film he needed, and he shouted, "You're the fucking clerk here, you tell me!" We all stood there, stunned in disbelief. Finally, she said, "I don't know what kind of camera you have, sir, so I can't know that." He turned away, muttering, "Stupid bitch." and left the store.As for children in a restaurant, my buddy, who also has Aspergers, has actually approached the mother of an unruly child and asked her if she'd like to borrow one of his socks to shut it up. The nearby patrons actually applauded.The whole drug thing is pathetic. The whole thing is a pharmaceutical plot. Those companies actually build medical training facilities and insist that anyone studying there to be a doctor must have a specific number of hours of training in pharmaceuticals, but that they are under no circumstances allowed to teach or even suggest that there exist any alternative medical methods.

I'm usually one that disregards any form of Politically Correctness. But with warm regards for those of you that are older in years that read this blog, I shall give a definition of what I consider Old People.I believe that age is a frame of mind. And those of you that might be old in years but have kept the joys of youth, then I don't consider you old people. It's only those silver haired complainers that refuse to acknowledge that the current year is 2007 and not 1954 that usually get on my nerves. You know the type of blue hairs I mean, the ones that refuse to get a cell phone because 'in my day we didn't need a portable phone, if we wanted to talk to someone, we had to wait until after dinner to try and reach them on the puke green phone attached to the kitchen wall'. And don't even get me started on the INTERNET, if I hear one more wrinkled lady complaining about the magical INTERNET and how if it wasn't needed back in the good ole days then why should we need it today, I might just punch her in the face. By the way, I heard two ladies discussing these things a few days ago and I wanted to scream. I've watched the movies in the fifties and sixties, believe me, they weren't the good ole days. Any generation that embraced McCarthyism should never offer advice about anything nor should be allowed to have any say in the current decade.All that being said, dearest Des, you will never make the list. Sometimes I think you are younger than me. Jason R.

Any generation that embraced McCarthyism should never offer advice about anything nor should be allowed to have any say in the current decade.

Careful there, young lad. A generation didn't embrace that, just a small segment of one country did that. You wouldn't want to be condemned in future years as one of that generation that embraced the GWB policies and actions, would you?

Unfortunately Trab, GWB has ruled my country for almost eight years, we, as a country, has let him get away with almost anything. He has taken away our freedoms under the guise of security and has allowed the religious right a place in politics. I think at least a generation has already followed him. Remember, even if you are against GWB but remain silent, then you are an accomplice as well.Jason R(almost embarrassed to be an American)