A Rant

You can ignore this post if you want. I'm just going to complain.

I am SO tired of how my life is inconvenienced to make things harder for criminals. I just bought a CD at Borders (40% off - score!) and it took me 5 minutes to get the stupid thing open because of the plastic wrap and protective sticky covering, etc. I'm tired of not being able to get cold medication without asking a pharmacy employee to hand me boxes from behind the counter. I don't want to get carded to buy cough medicine. I'm tired of having to have someone unlock a cabinet so I can buy spray paint. I'm REALLY tired of how difficult it is to take a plane trip anywhere. If I want to take a diet Coke on the plane that I brought from home so I didn't have to pay $5 for it, darn it, I should be able to! And I want my computer to run faster because it doesn't have to have all the stupid virus and other programs on it to keep people out.

The really annoying thing is that we've put all these processes in place and yet the criminal acts have not been reduced all that much. I have yet to hear a news report that says crack production is down because criminals can't get to the cold pills that have whatever it is they use in them. I still see a lot of graffitti around that looks like it's been done with spray paint. Yeah, maybe the terrorist attempts on airplanes have been reduced, but really, how many of those have there been in the whole scheme of things?

I don't know what the answer is except for everyone to just keep their hands off other people's stuff. History has proven that that is not going to happen any time soon, so I guess I just need to suck it up and live with it.

Land of the free, my ass.