Things that irk you......

It doesn't downplay. If anything, it increases the magnitude of the tragedy exponentially.

 

Four out of five people listening to her thought, "What an asshole."

 

That's good. Take a curtain call.

 

How do you feel about hate crime legislation?

 

People who use boarding passes on their phones. Invariably they have to swipe and punch and poke to get the image back at just the right time for the gate attendant to scan it. Just print a damn paper pass.

 

For some reason this really made me laugh.

 

For someone so immersed in modern tech, I am really a Luddite.

 

I do print them but I gotta say the ability to have a backup on a phone is a nice release of anxiety. Girlfriend lost hers a few weeks back when we were delayed for hours coming back to NYC. She initially panicked bc that's a default reaction if you're of a certain age. But then we remembered it was also on her phone. She ended up finding the print anyway

 

I fly frequently and although there is absolutely nothing pleasant about it, this ranks low. I'm far more annoyed at people who are unaware of what liquids are, carry-on bags that could hold multiple coffins, can't figure out which is seat C and somehow get aboard with 4-5 carry-on bags. And as an aisle seat kind of person, I want to throttle every boarding passenger who smacks me with a bag.

But I do print boarding passes, even if I get one sent to my phone.

 

Major irk: utility companies that have to dig up a bit of the road to either fix something or provide service to a new development, and then do an absolute SHIT job of patching the asphalt when they are done.

One of my daily rants.

 

When an athlete comes out of surgery and it is deemed successful. Why, because he didn't die?

We won't know if the surgery was successful until he is back playing at the level he was at when injured.

Saying the surgery "went well" or "as expected" is better terminology.

 

Everything about air travel irks me, including my decision to take the red eye home from Seattle last night. Hardly slept at all and now I'm a zombie all day.