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You guys seem really high-strung.
I can't remember the last time I've even wanted to hit somebody or been mad enough that I could've seen myself doing that. Of course, I don't work in the service industry so I don't get to deal with bad customers (which seems to be a common source of problems for people).
The closest I've come is my obnoxious neighbor who keeps keying my car and threatening me, peeking in my windows and all that. But I don't want to hit him, either. I figure there's some far better ways to make his life miserable than by getting physical with him (though he's already pretty pathetic. I mean, he is taking the time to peek in my windows. How pathetic do you have to be to want to do that?)
More frustrating than him, though, is the police and the apartment complex managers. The police don't care about enforcing laws (so far my neighbor has committed criminal mischief, assault, trespass against me as well as probably violating the state's anti-stalking law, yet the police do nothing. We have laws for a reason. Why have them or a police force if they don't care to enforce the laws we have?), and the apartment management gives me a "What do you want us to do about it?" attitude (I don't know. Perhaps enforcing the lease would be a start. We have written rules that this fellow has violated several times. Eviction is called for. But apparently they'd rather give me money in the lawsuit they're going to lose in a few months).
The thing is, there are always jerks in the world, so I the neighbor himself doesn't bother me so much. It's the fact that people who are entrusted to deal with these jerks when they break the rules have so little desire to do the very things they are paid to do that bothers me more than anything. Why have rules at all if there's no penalty for not following them?
The Legislature has gone out of its way to make these laws, but they're useless if they aren't enforced. We spend a lot of money having a police force and a district attorney's office. Why bother if they refuse to do their jobs? No wonder there's such a big heroin problem in Plano. Our police force is made up of Barney Fifes and rejects from the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight. I fully suspect that each Plano police officer is given one bullet and told to keep it in their shirt pocket so as not to hurt themselves.
If the DA refuses to do anything, I think I'll start work on a documentary about the impotence of the law enforcement apparatus in Collin County. I guarantee that if it's this hard for me to get the rules enforced, it's just as hard for a whole lot of people just like me.
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I would never come to blows. Unless of course, they threw the first punch. Then it's fair game, right?
