The Mood From Hell - Rant here
POSTED BY: seryn
UPDATED: Friday, April 28, 2006 04:28
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Just got back from the post office. I know I really don't need to go any further but I'm feeling a bit peckish now. Anyway I walk in and there is a line already ten people deep. Only one guy running the counter, of course! The old woman he is helping is confused, again another shocker! So she steps aside to fill out whatever the hell she missed the first time. The next woman walks up with a stack of about twelve envelopes that need cerified delivery, signature confirmation, insurance etc. ad naseum. After the guy rings up the total she goes to pay with a credit card. Here's where things get interesting. The name on the card doesn't match her driver's license. She goes into this long winded explanation about how she recently got married but kept her maiden name on business credit cards. He can't take her word and leaves to find a supervisor. Now there is no one at the counter and the line is almost out the door. Somewhere between five and ten minutes pass until another guy comes out to open a second register. Remember the old woman from before? Well the people in front of me decide it would be okay for her to finish her business. The guy tells her to write the return address on the package. What the fuck was she doing for the last ten minutes!? Then he asks her if there are any hazardous/explosive contents in said package. Does he really think this confused seventy-something woman is a terrorist. Back to the other lady. A guy walks up to the counter saying very loudly that he has been called off lunch for this. He turns out to be the supervisor. He allows the transaction and hurries back out to lunch. As I am being waited on by the second teller the first guy is telling the women not to come back and try the same thing again because it won't be allowed. What!? His called his supervisor off of lunch and he approves but this assclown is now saying that it isn't allowed! He could have saved us all a lot of trouble and just told her no to begin with.
Am I the only one who thinks people have way too many options nowadays? I know a lot of people like paying with credit/debit cards but cash is quick and easy. And what the hell happened to sending mail? It used to be you went in, paid, and shipped it off. Today we've got insurance, first class, super express, confirmation and it turns the whole experience into a horrific ordeal. Keep it simple people!
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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Leaving a department Store and having one of those sensors go off with that loud, annoying beep, and everyone looks at you like you just stole something.
Or walking into a department store and you find yourself being trailed by a security guard like you're going to steal something.
“I don’t know. This here’s a spectacle might warrant a moment’s consideration.”
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Actually, our school has oficially dubbed this week "Hell Week" due to the crapload of homework and tests. I have 6 
tests and a paper on The Left Hand of Darkness due Friday. Track is beating me into the ground. I came home Monday so exhausted after doing repeat 800s in that insane wind we had, and crashed. I woke up even more tired than when I went to bed.
But 6 flipping tests!?!?!?!?! Where the hell did they come from? And they're not little quizzes, no, they're whopping "I think we'll throw in a final just for the hell of it" big damn tests. It's even sad that I'm plotting to ditch my first hour tomorrow so I can either get some sleep or work on my paper. My Chemistry teacher already thinks I'm a slacker (which I'm not, I'm just not very good at chem
), so we'll see how that goes.
Me=
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Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."
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I signed up to this new thing from hotmail, live something, and they sent me a survey to fill in about how I like it, which at the time was quited a lot, it had been going fine,
then almost as soon as i complete the questions the whole thing just goes down the crapper, every time I try to sign in it stop and stall, I can't open half the emails cause it just stops dead ad tells me to try again later. Blody load of crap.
and the only message I get is some garbage in technobabble with big long words that I know for damned sure don't belong next to each other in a sentence.
Bagh!
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
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Hey Seryn!
My hotmail has been a little screwy since the end of last week... I've had mails go missing.
What the heck is up???
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I'm the president. I don't need to listen.
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god knows, Several people have tried to send me mail, and got 'could not deliver' notices.
Its just shoddy how they send out the surveys before the crap starts.
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
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In his post-dumping me letter my ex wrote:
"The difference between us is that you believe your life will be right when you find the right person to be with an then you will be fulfilled."
What a load of patronising, untrue crap! Am I wrong to be offended by that? 
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When I think of an interesting signature you'll be the first to know.
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First of all, when I tried to reply to this the first time, my computer went all wonky for no reason (as it is quite prone to doing). I had to fiddle with it forever just to get it to start displaying web pages again. But this is not the true meat of my rant.
What it comes down to is this: My husband and I are skinheads. No, NOT Neo-Nazis. No, NOT racists. The problem with our culture, or at least the idiots in my town, is that all they choose to embrace is the sensational. To most people, all skinheads are racist, hateful Neo-Nazis or Aryan Nation/Brotherhood members. It's more shocking and interesting, so they believe it. Look at when the Neo-Nazis went on Geraldo Rivera's talk show and broke his nose. This is how the public came to believe all skinheads are and act. This is simply untrue. No one chose to do a follow up show with the other side of the story... peaceful skinheads?!? NON-racist skinheads?!? That simply doesn't enter into most people's imaginations.
My husband and I are what you call SHARP skins. (SHARP = SKINHEADS AGAINST RACIAL PREJUDICE). At its core, the skinhead movement in America isn't about who you love or hate, or what color, religion, or sexual orientation a person might be. It's a working class movement that says be a productive member of society, work for a living, fight hard, drink hard, well...you get the rest. All that with a dash of politics. :)
Sure, it splintered into hate groups that adopted the boots, braces, and shaved head because it looks tough. But there are other skinhead groups out there that are the exact opposite, like SHARP and ARA (ANTI-RACIST ACTION). My husband and I are not violent people, as most people believe skinheads to be. I am a 27 year old woman...why would I get in a fist fight? I haven't been in a fist fight since high school, and that was 10 years ago.
I'm tired of living in this redneck, racist town where SHARP skins are seen as a menace, but gangs are shooting each other every day. People don't take the time to ask you WHY you do things, or dress a certain way. My husband and I have been "seig-heiled" in parking lots, given dirty looks all over, been followed by security, been called all sorts of horrible names, and basically looked down upon because we're skinheads. People don't feel like they need to know any more about the situation.
And the ultimate irony is...THEY are the racist ones! They want to call us Neo-Nazis but they are the racists! My town has the highest population of KKK on the East Coast and also a huge group of Neo-Nazis called the KSS (Keystone Stars - guess what state I live in!) I rant because people make assumptions based on what you look like or what they believe you to be.
I never push my skinhead ideology on people. I'm just grateful for the few that will stop and listen, so I can tell just one more person that not all skinheads are violent racists. Besides, I'm proud of being a skinhead: epecially a SHARP skin who is vocal in fighting AGAINST all of this racist, ignorant nonsense.
Ok, I think I'm done... Oh wait. By the way? That abortion guy with the "definition"? He needs to be shot.
***Never judge a book by its movie***
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Wow that's really educaional I didn't know there were peaceful skinhead factions. That'll teach me and my broad generalizations. Thank you very much for sharing this.
An I carried such a torch
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