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Stuff That Burns Up a Grumpy Old Man

Pumpkin spice everything really yanks my crank.  But isn’t that the way we Americans roll?  Find that one thing that people love and beat the sh*t out of it until we can’t stand it anymore.

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Speaking of beating the sh*t outta something, as I write this it’s September 26 and I just saw my first Christmas ad.  Barf!

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How about cars lined up in front of school before and after classes, creating a massive traffic jam?  Mommy has to pick up little Bobby.  He just can’t take that yukky bus.

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While I’m going on about school: school busses that stop at every flippin’ driveway because when he does take the yukky bus, little Bobby can’t walk more than 50 feet without getting leg cramps.

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So you buy a squeezable bottle of ketchup that has one of those clear plastic seals around the lid.  First, you search for the perforations to easily remove the seal.  There are none so you use a knife to cut the seal but stab yourself instead.  Then, you flip the top up and start squeezing but the ketchup won’t flow.  Arggggggh there’s one more seal under the lid.  And it takes that deadly knife to cut the seal away.

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You log onto Netflix or Hulu and you quickly click down to the show you want but when you do that an interesting show scrolls by.  You click back up and that show’s been replaced by something else and you can’t find whatever it was that looked interesting.   Grrrrrrrr!

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You enter a store through the right side of the double doors.  But when you leave you go through the other door, which is locked.  Yeah, something like this:

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You know what really burns up a grumpy old man?  A grumpy old woman.

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You know, the whole Gabby Petito story is very sad.  She was a photogenic #vanlife influencer with nearly 1 million Instagram followers whose life was tragically cut short.

What I think is despicable is the way the media is handling the media’s reporting of the story by injecting race into the discussion.  We have ABC, CNN and NBC calling the media racist because the media is focused on a pretty blonde and not covering missing black, brown and native Americans equally.  They call it “Missing White Woman Syndrome” where the pretty girl gets the attention.

Does anyone not see the idiocy here?  Lester Holt at NBC, Jim Acosta at CNN and their peers in the industry could cover any story they want.  They could devote 30 or 60 minutes a week on missing minority men, women and children if they felt so strongly about it.  They are the ones who are guilty of perpetuating MWWS, but instead they whip up racial resentment.

While I think they may have a point about unequal coverage, the problem here is that they’re the problem.

And who’s actually doing something about it?  Gabby’s parents.  They’re starting a charity to help find missing children, similar to what John Walsh did after his son Adam was murdered.  Bravo!

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Imagine you’ve saved up for your dream car, a Jaguar F-Type convertible.  You finally find perfection, a black 2015 model with a black top, black interior and low miles.  Triple black.  Sweet!

So, you buy the car online and get home delivery included in the deal.  You eagerly wait for the delivery and this happens……

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