Some Rants

During a recent driving trip to Daytona , FL, I visited many of the Rest Areas that the Southeast has to offer. Along the way, there were occasions that I had to spend more time in the restroom than others (i.e. Using the stall).

During this time, it was amazing to me the number of people who would either answer their phone or be walking in with a full conversation going on. This happend to me probably 5 times on the trip.

I’m not sure that it bothers me as an atendee of the same facility, but I find it incredably difficult to rationalize how this is rude to the other half of the conversation.

Again, more things I don’t understand.

On a recent trip to the great state of Florida, traveling interstate 75, I was amazed the number of idiots that intentionaly drove in the middle lane.

I understand there are times that this behavior can be approprate, as when you are the only car on the road, and pot-holes fill the slow lane. Maybe then.
Otherwise,”keep right except to pass!” and “slower traffic use right lane!”

How hard is that?

Yesterday, the wife and I were hauling a trailer in the city, and needed to stop and get food. So, parking is a little tricky with a trailer, so we decieded to park across the street from a sandwich shop, in the parking lot of a big box store. Since that end of the lot was completely empty, I pulling into the aisle and turned, slowly, into a parking space. Pulling forward as to occupy two spaced, or one, and and the one in front of it.

While we were parking, a gentleman was driving his car across the empty parking lot. Across.
This isnt too out of the ordinary, as the lot was empty, except for us. As he drove directly toward us, he seemed perturbed that we were parking, and that we were in his way.

Just simply strange that he was in the right…. crossing the parking lot and was upset that we were parking.

I just dont understand.

With gas being over $1 more per gallon than this time last year, I seem to pay more attention to people when I am filling up my truck. Although I am lucky enough to not to have to travel much, I guess that makes me pay more attention when I do.

So this time I was to fill up my tank at my “favorite” station, I noticed that the gas was 6 cents cheaper than it was directly across the street. My choice is clear, buy gas from the cheaper supplier.? Right.

The catch is, people were lined up 7 or eight deep waiting here to get gas. No lines at the competitor.
My truck has a 15 gallon tank, which if completely empty, would make the price difference of about 90 cents if I bought the cheaper gas. But of course I would have to wait in line maybe 15 minutes for this (as everyone else was doing). And because it was near 90 degrees outside, most of them kept their vehicles running for the AC.

In my mind, that 15 min of waiting, and running my truck far under weighed the almost 90 cents that I would be paying for convenience and getting out of the way of the herd.

Im just saying.

Living in the “country”, we still have barbers. You know, the place where MEN go and get their hair buzzed. They dont sell “products”, or have Hot Stone Treatments, or even plush couches for relaxing. You are there for a reason, to get a haircut, so there is a barber chair, and if your lucky, enough steel frame chairs to sit on.

So, I was in dire need of a haircut and there I was, walking into my barber’s shop only to see that one family of a father, 2 sons, and mother were waiting in “line”. The only problem was that each of them had one chair between them, and one on each side at the ends, so those 4 people “took” all 9 seats.

I stood for a while.