Snow

This morning's commute was enough to make me want to put a bullet in my head.

It's good to know that the various weather predicting oracles are completely incompetent. Yesterday's weather report didn't suggest anything that was likely to make my commute a living hell. I'm consistently amazed at how weather predictors can claim, day after day, that they know what the weather is going to be, even though they get it wrong so often. If I ever go nuts, one of the things I'm going to do is kidnap a weatherperson and torture him until he admits they just don't know what the weather is going to be!

So, it took me over twice as long to get to work as it should have, because the road crews were sleeping in because they didn't expect any snow. People drive like real idiots in the snow. You have 40% who slow down so much that it's inconceivable that the roads could actually be that dangerous, then 40% insist on driving fast anyway, for whatever insane reason they have. The 20% of us that are left are simply fighting for our lives.

If I find the driver of that Cadillac Escalade that cut me off twice by going straight from a turning lane, I'm going to go to prison for what I do to him. Where's a cop when you need one? If I tried to pull a stunt like that I'd see blue lights in my rear view immediately. He got away with it twice in one morning. How does one accumulate that much karma?

From there, I'm wondering if architects have learned absolutely nothing about how to build in western Pennsylvania. How hard is it to put a drain under the carpet of the entryway for a retail establishment, so it doesn't turn into a slushy, dangerous mess this time of year? Honestly, just put a damn drain in that little entryway, put a carpet down that fluid will seep through efficiently and keep it relatively warm so the snow and slush kicked off folks shoes actually melts. It's so easy that if I ever slip and fall walking into a retail establishment, I'm suing for everything I can get!

Final on my list of Things that Aggravate Me are people who wear those damn bluetooth headsets all the time. What the hell? I mean, what would happen if someone called and you couldn't answer absolutely immediately? Would your life end? Those things make you look like a reject from a low-budget sci-fi film. I'm sure it's useful when you're walking or driving or whatever, but why the hell is that thing stuck to your ear all the time?

Hopefully you'll be so interested in futzing around with your bluetooth headset that you'll slip in the entryway to Panera and break your neck.

Today was a bad day.