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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Why So Angry, People?

Hello my dear friends. Sometimes you people exhaust me. Why is everyone so angry these days? I have my theories but let me just give you a few examples. 31-year old Na Cola Darcel Franklin was supposed to be married on Saturday. Unfortunately, hours before the ceremony, she and her fiance got into an argument and she stabbed him in the heart, twice. He died. She told the judge she "didn't mean to kill him on purpose".  A man in Texas, angry about being evicted from his apartment, opened fire on a police officer, killing him and an innocent bystander, and wounding 4 others before he was killed by police. A nut in Wisconsin, angry that everyone in American isn't white, shot up a Sikh Temple, killing 6.  Of course there was the tragic shooting in Colorado. It's not about guns people. It's about ANGER. People are so freaking angry these days. Animal cruelty cases have doubled. Road rage, sports rage, economic rage. Geez! We really need to lighten up. I understand that times are tough. They're tough for almost all of us. Why are we taking it out on each other? The captor was shopping today. She tells me that, as she was in the parking lot loading her groceries into the car, a woman pulled up wanting to park in the spot next to her. Her cart was partially in the space and the woman shouted "Hey! Move that cart". The captor looked around at the dozen other parking spaces available (some of them closer to the store than where they were) and said quite nicely "I'll be done in a minute". The woman in the car then blew her horn and again shouted "Move that damn cart!" Now, if you know my captor you know that she is generally civil and polite to strangers until provoked. At this point it is safe to say that the captor felt provoked but, she bit her tongue and continued to put her groceries in the car. Could she have moved the cart? Yes she could have and, had there not been a dozen other options for the woman to park, she would have. That is until the woman became belligerent. As the captor continued to (now slowly) load her car, the angry woman continued to inch into the spot in question until her bumper was right against the captor's cart. The captor turned and glared at the woman (you know that crazed glare she gets) and in a very even tone said "You move one more inch and I'm going to drop to the ground, scream for help and then sue you for every cent your trailer is worth. Now back up". The woman paused for a moment, shouted a stream of F-bomb laced profanity and backed out of the spot. It was then the captor noticed she had two children strapped in the backseat. Charming. Absolutely charming!
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