A Litany of Bitches

Almost everybody carries around a shopping-bag of gripes, annoyances, and petty peeves that he or she opens up for friends and family at the dinner table or during Happy Hour. When I started this blog a couple of years ago I invited readers to submit samples of their own. Here’s a selection of some of the submissions along with a few of my own..(If you have a choice bitch or two or ten that you'd like to see posted, send them to dog@myfairpoint.net.}

I HATE...

...Co-workers in nearby cubicles who slobber and munch and crunch snacks and eat lunch and have braying laughs and talk on the phone all day long.

...Drivers who hang in the left lane on Interstates and get pissed off when you flash your headlights at them or pass them on the right and give them the finger.

...Politicians who tell everybody they’re "Fighting for the Little Man" or "Fighting for the Middle Class" or "Fighting Wall Street" or "Fighting Big Oil" or "Fighting Insurance Companies." I wish they’d all get together and stage a mass cage-fighting orgy in that septic tank they call Congress..

...Cutesy TV ads that crawl across the bottom of the screen while you're watching a show. If they're such a charming giggle, why don't the marketing assholes put them on during commercials?

...Neighbors who run their damn leave-blowers at 7 a.m. Sunday mornings.

...Magazines that send out renewal notices two months after you’ve paid. One would think it would be no big deal for the "Paid Subscriber" data base to communicate with the "Time to Renew" data base; but that chore seems to be beyond the technical ability of the IT boys.

...Stores that arrange their counters and aisles in a maze of zigzags in order to route customers through their entire assemblage of crap before they can locate what they came in to buy. For example, those twin plagues of the suburban landscape, the faux colonial Rite Aid and CVS drug store chains.

... Pit bull owners who extol the playfulness of their pets and what wonderful, gentle companions they are while blaming the hundreds of pit bull maulings that take place each year on bad upbringing. Pit bulls are a freakin’ menace owned by freakin’ paranoids. The dogs and their owners should be euthanized.

...Morbidly obese Walmart customers who clog the aisles with their electric courtesy carts. I’d like to suggest to these slobs that they might be able to walk like normal human beings if they didn’t swill food down their gorges each day as if they were so many castrated swine fattening up for the slaughter.

...Organs of the mass media that hide the ethnic, racial, and religious identities of rioters, looters, muggers, murderers, terrorists, and rapists if they happen to be black, Hispanic, or Muslim, but fall all over themselves identifying white Christian criminals. (New York Times headline re Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik: "Christian Extremist Is Charged in Norway;" New York Times’ headline re Muslim mass murderer Nidal Hasan: "Army Doctor Held in Fort Hood Rampage.")

...Television gurus who claim to "Speak Truth to Power" ─ by which they mean they attack sitting ducks like Republican presidents and big corporations, but don’t have the guts to speak out against corrupt black politicians like Charles Rangel or black rabble-rousers like Al Sharpton.

...Fake ministers like ‘The Reverend" Al Sharpton who supposedly was "ordained" when he was nine years old or "The Reverend" Jesse Jackson who achieved his godly status without being able to finish his college course in theology. What a fuckin’ racket.

...Gutless editors who cede control of newsrooms, publishing houses, and magazines to marketing idiots with junior college degrees in "Communications," "Social Work," or "Human Resources."

...Self-important assholes with booming voices who carry on cell-phone conversations in supermarket aisles ─ as if the fate of the nation’s economy (or their insurance agency or junkyard) hangs on their every word.

...Supermarkets that play blaring rock music over static-filled PA systems featuring talentless groups of teenage boys with fake Western accents and talentless teenage girls choking with fake emotion.

Norm Mack, Peterborough, dog@myfairpoint.net

 

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  • 8/25/2011 3:24 PM Nun wrote:
    I hate being jerked around. Like when you ask someone a yes/no question; did you do XYZ yet? and they answer with a question; did you do such and such? Just fucking say "No, I didn't do it yet"
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  • 8/25/2011 3:28 PM Nun wrote:
    I hate: When shopping with my skinny ass partially blocking an aisle and some fat freak comes through and expects me to move out of the way. "Excuse me". No, just fucking go around through a different aisle, or are the extra few steps too much strain?
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  • 8/25/2011 4:21 PM Loren wrote:
    Hmmmm... I don't know why, but I feel I have heard all of these "hates" before.

    I enjoy bitching about the little things myself – chewing, picking, tapping, cell phone users, drivers, coworkers, teenagers, and fathers, just to name a few.
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