I, like many of you I'm sure, think a lot. What passes through my head varys greatly from the begnin to the completely bizzare. Most of them are just a flash-in-the-pan thought, a few actually have substance. Here are a few random ones to give you an insight into my mind. You've been warned.
It's not your thyroid, you're actually fat. My frist clue was the numerous hulled out Burger King wrappers surrounding you. Also the white ring of sugar around your still gaping maw shows evidence of the recent death of a Krispy Kreame doughnut.
If you can't drive at least the speed limit on the freeway stay the hell off it. This is California, there are a million ways to get just about everywhere.
Talking on your cell phone in the check out line where everyone can hear you all the while making the line move slower because you can't manage to talk and pay at the same time should be grounds for a public flogging.
Back to slow drivers. If you're going below the speed limit expect me to pass you. If in the process of doing that you decide to extend your middle finger out the window expect to pull back a stump.
Cheap often just means cheap, especially when you're talking about boots for ambulance work. The cheap boots you buy today might allow your feet to steep in the various body juices of your next patient tomorrow.
Fair is not a synonym for equal. We might not be equals and thay may not be fair, but thats the way it is.
Life isn't fair. Any attempts to make it such will more often than not end in disapointment.
Don't expect me to do my job with equipment that doesn't work.
I think that's all for now but I'm sure thats far from it. As more strange ramblings from my brain pop up I'm sure I'll post more.
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I hate the word "fair". Hate it. It has to be the most overly used and wrongly applied word in the English language. Very little in the world is "fair". If the world was "fair", for every sea lion that got gobbled up by a hungry whale, some poor whale would find himself on the menu at the sea lion cafe. To the sea lion the world is not fair. To the whale, however, life's peachy. Lets try another one. Do NOT look me in the eye and tell me that the world is not fair because you don't make as much money as me. I have a Master's degree, I've spent more time sitting in front of a book than a librarian. I work over 200 hours per pay period. I've been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dam, and by the dam I mean some Hep C junkie's chest, and by finger I mean my whole arm. Yea, I make pretty decent cash, but I earn every penny. What's not fair is for someone to expect me to give up what I earn because they prefer not to work, or spent their school years jacking off. Now, all other things being equal, if you make less than me, that's not fair and I'll stand up and fight for your rights. But don't tell me that your desire to get more than you deserve constitutes things being unfair or unbalanced.
Switching gears to foot wear. Boots are the first line of defense between a hard life and a sore body. The second line is socks. Spend money on good boots, spend money on good socks. Ecco makes shoes and boots that are so comfortable that they are like walking in heaven. Even their military style paratrooper boot kicks the shit out of the best pair of Doc Martin's I own. You'll pay for them though, about $300. The other side is that they're lifetime guaranteed against every possible insult you could provide to them, except daily wear and tear. Even doing what I do to them, they last about 5 years. Socks should be wool, not cotton. Even in the summer. Wool socks wick sweat and diffuse heat better than cotton. Believe it or not you'll be cooler in the summer with wool socks on than you will with cotton. And in the winter you'll be warm. Wigwam makes great wool socks, SmartWool makes crap. Know the difference.
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I'm with you on "fair". Every lowlife who in their own mind feels they have been mistreated by some entity other than their own possible stupidity raises their hands to the heavens and cries, "It's not fair!" Lets just use you and me for a perfect example. We were raised equally, our parents gave us the same opportunities and the same chances. Now, ten years later, you make roughly three times as much money as I do. Is that fair? Some would say no, I would say absolutely. Why? You spent more time in school than I did. You earned it, you worked for it, you put in the time and effort. I did not. Does that make us equals? In terms of our finances, no. Does that make it fair? Yeah, it does.
Another word I'm sick of is "diversity". It seems that we Americans have started worshiping diversity as a God all the while we've stopped worshiping God in the name of diversity. But that's another blog.