Time to Rant

Those of you that follow me (all eleven of you I think) know for the most part my posts generally convey a positive message of some type.  Well, this post is NOT going to be one of them.  Everybody needs to blow some stream every once in a while and this is my “every once in a while”.

Why here you ask?  The main reason is because my wife doesn’t like to hear me bitch.  Understandably so, but considering she is one of my eleven followers, she’s going to hear about it anyway; just indirectly.  Although she might just get the notification and immediately delete it like the others that have come before this…I don’t know.  The second reason is because I’m certain I’m not the only one that is infuriated, distraught, upset, irritated, or plain ole pissed off by what I’m about to list – well maybe some of the things I swear it’s just me, but the others I’m positive my readers and the WordPress community for that matter, can relate to. Continue reading

The Checkout Questionnaire

Yesterday evening I found myself and my daughter in the midst of an unorthodox grocery visit, you know, those random stops at the local grocer or department store for milk, bread, eggs, or other haphazard items that couldn’t stand the test of time that elapses between your bi-weekly or monthly real grocery store stops?  And as per the usual, we were in a hurry. Continue reading