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Great topic for a miscellaneous chat. Reading through these posts has been cool. Now I want to list what ticks ME off. Read or dont, but I tend to babble on. Be forewarned.
Waiting in line ticks me off, especially at an ATM machine. After all, wasn't the whole point of obtaining an ATM card supposed to help me shorten my transaction time?
I also get pretty ticked off that there are banks around the Boston area that actually charge people a fee when they don't use an ATM. There are banks around here that charge customers a $1.00 transaction fee for depositing or withdrawing from an account using a live teller.
I get ticked off when I am misquoted or when something I have said is removed from its intended point of context.
I get ticked off about the general urban education system. I don't think that (at least in the USA) public schools are receiving the funding that they deserve. There are just too many schools that are using outdated textbooks and don't have alternative educational tools and resources (like PCs for web access, etc.)
I am ticked off in what I view as the "Dumbing down of America" as a result of the educational system. Examples are cashiers who don't know how to count out change and rely on the "Change" button to compute it, which I see frequently.
I am ticked off with the quality of most television shows. I listen to the teleplay dialogue and I am shocked by the simplistic sentences and "dumb" plotlines, and I am even more ticked off that the US public appears to like it.
I am ticked off that Richard won the original "Survivor". So ticked off that I didn't even watch "Survivor II".
I am ticked off whenever I see people exhibit expressions or activities that are discriminatory in nature.
I am ticked off that our current President sounds like he has never studied grammar when he speaks in forums other than pre-prepared speeches.
I am ticked off about the process of the Presidential Election in 2000. But, I am also tired of it... so it's kind of falling off my list.
I am ticked off when I see kids on the subways of Boston sitting in seats as elderly people struggle to stand up with their canes and hold onto a handstrap.
I am ticked off that couples can now deduct more money from their taxable income dependent upon the number of children that they have attending college. Why? Because we have so many neighborhoods filled with children who don't even have enough food, let alone wonder about where their college money is coming from. I feel as though there are actually tax incentives to have children, provided the couple is within certain socioeconomic backgrounds. Of course, Welfare Reform (which IS necessary) has already told mothers that the amount of welfare will NOT increase if they have another child. Fine. But there's still an irony here between what essentially rewards some socioeconomic groups to have children, and punishes other groups. (And who suffers in the long run? The children...)
I'm ticked off that my mother is 73 years old and that despite having worked her whole life until she was 70, and despite the fact that she is insured by a private insurer and Medicare, she can barely afford the prescription medications that she NEEDS to live. (Anti-diabetes medicine, cardiac medicines, cholesterol lowering medicines)
The USA essentially treats the elderly like a word that I can't use but begins with "sh".
That was cool venting. Take care all
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