MLK Beyatch!!!

I totally forgot that today was Martin Luther King Jr. day. I saw a picture in the paper of his daughter. Let's just say that she looks like him with a bad wig.

I dropped Jeanne at work last night only to come home and have her call to tell me that she ended up being off but has to work Friday night. So I go to pick her back up. Her work is stupid. She has the same, set schedule everyweek. You would think if they changed it, someone would notify her.

On top of that, they put a memo in her box about these mandatory eight hour workshops on a Monday and a Wednesday where they're having a hired professional to come in and teach them how to be nice to customers, which reminds me of that great "Office" (the real "the Office") episode. Anyway, besides this being a stupid idea for hiring someone for that, the classes are eight hours, I think it was 11:30am-7:30pm. Jeanne would have to work Sunday night 11pm-7am, wait for the meeting to start (because by the time she came home she'd have to go right back), go to the meeting, then get picked-up at the end, come home, and go right back to work. Same thing on Wednesday. I told her that if they make her go to this thing without rearranging the schedule she should quit.

It's so stupid. Customer service is dumb. I think you give a certain amount of respect that's on a normal common sense level. Just the respect you give to anyone. Once they go above that level, fuck them. It's all just because people are too sensitvie, and companies care too much about making the customer happy rather than their employees' self-esteem. Customer satisfaction is totally necessary but how much can you take? I don't want stupid mother fuckers coming back. Unfortunately, Jeanne's work is full of those types. The ones that get mad at her because she doesn't know every single company that offers a Beverly Hills tour.

Anyone who takes a tour of Beverly Hills is stupid. Beverly Hills has nothing. It has big houses, Rodeo Drive, and restaurants and other shops. That's it! Rodeo drive is nothing spectactular either. It's just the same shops you see at any mall, but bigger shops and you pay way more for the same product. Why would anyone want to see this? Because this is the type of culture that they are raised in. If you see 90% of the new money rich people, they're so unoriginal and boring. Everything they do is so cliche. They do stuff like get an ugly car they probably don't even like, but they do because rich people have them. Look at the way they dress too. Or, "I drink wine, because I love art." Okay, dumbass. Wine has nothing to do with art. Well, with most contemporary art, it makes me enjoy it a little. Tolerate is more like it. "Here's a rock. It's a found object. It symbolizes my discontent for the corporate media."

When I go to places, I like to experience and see things that you cannot experience or see anywhere else. Going to shop in a place where the only unique experience you get there is that you spent ten times as much as their shop at the mall and you were around a bunch of vacuous, snobby, fucking bitches all day long is not my idea of a vacation. If that's what a vacation is, I'd rather just stay home and deal with that. It's so dumb.

When Joe went to San Diego and was looking for stuff to do, people would tell him, "There's this mall or this mall...." Doesn't anyone do anything besides shop? Why do you go places to just do what you can do anywhere else? The only place I could justify going shopping at on vacation are record shops. Not Tower Records or Virgin Mega-Stores, but a used record shop.

What else do you see on a Beverly Hills tour? "Here's fucking Brittney Spears' house. Isn't that awesome? Don't you feel so much better having seen her house?" It's all useless things. I'm not going to be the one wasting my time doing stuff like that and actually being impressed. Then finishing it all with a nice cup of crappuccino from Starbucks. Nothing like a day in Lame-ass-ville.

I have an attainable goal for the near future. It's to get full coverage insurance for my car. What I'm going to do is hit every stupid driver on the road. Not hurt them, but just hit them so they realize it was stupid to do what they did. More and more recently, people have been doing stupid stuff around me. Stuff like making a full stop in 40+mph traffic to drive completely across all lanes to make a turn. Not safely done in anyway. And all these keep happening in areas that obviously have another turn just up ahead where they can turn around at. Totally unecessary and dumb. And they always have this stupid look on their face that I just want to crush. I just want to hit them so they pull over and I'll say, "What the fuck are you doing? Are you kidding me?" And the rest of the things I usually say to people while driving. I'd be kind of a vigilante of some sorts. Along with my other plans of hitting people on cell phones that drive stupid. I have no problems with people who drive and talk. Just be able to do it.

Another problem I've been noticing a lot recently are in the merge lanes on the interstates. A good driving tip is if you are not getting off soon, stay out of the right lane. That way, people can merge on quickly and safely and traffic will flow smoothly. On that same note, people merging should know that they are now entering a 65 mph zone that people usually drive 10 miles over that limit. I know some on-ramps are stupidly built at an incline, but it doesn't three miles to gain that much speed. Also, people who merge into the merge lane at the merge point while cars are merging on can go fucking die. I'll help you die, too. Once I get my insurance policy.