A few things that I have come across as of late that have a desired certain objective but make me want to do the exact opposite of what they want.
1) They now include the recycling fee with every bottle or can of beverage you buy. They say this is to increase recycling so everyone will want to take their bottles and cans to the bottle deposits we all know this is crap though and it is actually just so the powers that be can make some extra cash. Here is an idea if you want to increase recycling how about having a place I can turn my bottles that is remotely convenient or at the very least how about having a bottle deposit in a place where I do not fear I am going to get mugged or my car ripped off. Those places are crawling with homeless trying to steal your bottles or asking for change when you come out from trading in your bottles and they don't by my old stand by telling them I don't have any change when I walk out of there with my pockets full of dimes. Does the government go out of their way to put bottle deposits in places where the homeless reside as a means of easy income for them, or do the homeless just flock to these places after they are built. Regardless the new scam of charging me the recycling fee has caused me to by only products that can not be recycled, Styrofoam cups, lead lined bottles, Lysol cans whatever just as long as I don't have to pay there made up fee. One last question: Why not encourage people to buy recyclable products by making them cheaper and non-recyclable more expensive instead how currently it is the other way around. May work better.
2) I rented a car for a week and it had a stereo that would get louder every time I started driving faster and this was suppose to inform me to slow down. So basically the inventors of this brainstorm thought that landscapes, buildings and other cars whipping buy you at an incredible pace was not tipping people off that they were going faster, after all maybe the car is going the same speed and the earths rotation is just making everything around me go backwards, so we need something inside the car to let us know we are going faster, how about a speedometer, oh have one of those, uh yes music gets loud when you go fast, perfect, best idea ever. Besides being an idiotic idea it had me speeding all over the place trying to listen to my music and in the worst areas. Think about where you need the music loud, in places where there is a lot of outside noise, places like construction zones and school zones. Kids are screaming, jack hammers going I just keep going faster and faster to here the music.
3) What the hell is with the area code before I dial any number now in the city. . . How much of my life will now be waisted because of this. Dialing it, listening to a computer voice tell me the times I forgot to dial it and so on. They say it is to increase phone communication so everyone can have unique numbers, there is no way I am asking for a persons number anymore, way too long, 7 numbers was pushing it 10 numbers is a prison code. A warning if I do not have your number already I will never get it, sorry but 10 digits uh, you would have to get two napkins to have enough room to even write it all down.
Unrelated . . . So I saw this add the other day in which all these middle aged men where engaged in outdoor activities giving each other high-fives and fist pumps all over the place. The add was for a drug called Teamocyle. Some side effects where listed but I was two busy watching these guys canoe and rock climb to pay attention to what they where. I did here at the end to ask your doctor about Teamocyle. So I really want to but i dont know how to bring it up. I have had a sore throat lately so I am thinking of going into the doctors and after he checks things out and writes a prescription I am going to look at the note with whatever the drug he subscribers on it and say excuse me doc are you sure you did not mean to put down Teamocyle. What was that you said . .. (the doc replies) That is right doc the jig is up I am asking you about Teamocyle. Where the conversation goes from there who knows my guess is if the drug company is telling you to ask your doctor about Teamocyle to basically self-perscribe yourself the doctors themselves may not know much about Teamocyle but it would be nice to have a question or two for them.
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That is right doc the jig is up I am asking you about Teamocyle.
i finally get it.
man everything you said....FINALLY someone SAID IT!
regarding recycling: the only incentive i had to recycle was because of the possible extra cash. If my only incentive is to break even, screw it.
i can't remember the last time i willingly went to the bottle depot. sometimes my dad gives me garbage bags full of bottles, but it's just not worth it. the stench of that place is overwhelming, and how awkward is it to stand in front of the disgusting, sticky kiddie pool while the attendant sorts the bottles and you stand there watching him count under his breath. you can't say a word because you'll mess up his counting, and he probably stiffs you anyway, so you just stand there, soaking up the odor of stale beer and homeless.
i hate those stereos that automatically adjust the volume. classic example of over-designing something that was perfect already. the volume knob works best when it stays where you put it. case closed. stop effing with perfection.
ten digit dialing. we'll get used to it. everywhere else has it already. but maybe there should be a study on carpal tunnel syndrome or repetitive strain injuries from typing too many numbers. possible phd thesis for you. or not.
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