Phone books.
Why does every phone company on earth have to send me a new phone book every couple of months? In the past month I have gotten no less than 5 phone books. I still have the 5 from the month before and the month before that and…. Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration, but really, how many phone books do they think I need? And the funny thing is I never use them. If I’m looking something up I use the internet. What a waste of time, energy, trees, and money. How do I opt out of the phone book list?
Gas prices.
I know I have ranted about this one before, but it bears repeating. Why the hell is gas $3.35 a gallon in Washington State? It's more expensive than HAWAII! Why is it $3.17 a gallon at the cheapie Arco where I usually go? Why is the price of gasoline going up by 10 cents between the time I go to work and the time I come home EVERY DAY?? Why are the gas companies showing record profits and then saying that they have to raise the prices. “So sorry, American Consumers, there has been a (fill in the blank with stupid excuse number 71,452 here) and we have to raise the gas prices again!” I’d better not meet any of these gas company executives at a party one day (okay, I admit this isn’t very likely to happen, but whatever). I’ll have a few very strong words for them. “crook”, “monopoly”, and “rapist” are a few of the nicer ones I might use. I can’t believe it is costing me over $65 to fill up my car. It makes me sick. Then I read stuff like, “Well, get a car that gets better gas mileage” or “don’t drive so much” or “take mass transit” and I want to hit something. Like I’m EVER going to have the money to buy a car that gets better gas mileage when I’m paying $65/week in gas! I just tried to figure out what my commute would be like if I stopped driving and took mass transit from my house in Vancouver to work in Gresham. It can be done...barely. I would have to change the time I start work because I can't figure out how to get there by 7 a.m. It would take at least an hour and a half each way. And that doesn't count walking and waiting.
Hoo boy. This is one hot topic for me.
Boom boom music, crotch rockets, and other neighborhood noise
Who decided that it was really cool to turn the bass up on your car so damned loud that I can hear it in my house? When I have a migraine? And BTW, those stupid 4x4 off-road bikes that sound like someone is driving a chainsaw around? They are ILLEGAL in neighborhoods. And REALLY annoying.
Okay, that's it for today. Just had to get that off my chest.
2 comments:
Just think how many trees they killed to make those phone books. And truly, why bother? I google any phone number I want these days.
Ugh. Gas. Mine is about 10 cents higher than yours. But yes, it seems to go up about 10 cents a day. Insane.
Bitch, bitch, bitch. You are on a roll. Regan and I have been complaining about the gas thing too. I heard that they expect it to be $4 a gallon by the end of the year. I better stop now or I'll sound like you:)
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