Smoking. This has always really bothered me. People smoke near public entrances and smoke in the cars with the window down. So annoying. Why should I have to inhale other peoples' second hand smoke? When people are smoking, they are really taking away your freedom. Shouldn't I have the freedom and the choice to be smoke-free? But any day that I am driving behind a smoker, or stopped at a light with a smoker nearby, or walking into any building with smokers just chilling outside, my freedom is taken away by those smokers. The other week, Morgan and I went out to dinner, we asked about the wait at six different restaurants before finally settling. Restaurant #4, we were able to be seated right away outside. Not 1 minute after being seated, we were ready to go. We didn't really think about the outside bar and all the people that would be smoking and blowing right into our faces. Real cool.
Presidential debates. I don't think I realized how much of a debate it really isn't until this last election. What a waste of time to have and for the public to watch. What are they really debating? All I saw was two men bringing up the negative points about each other. So really you don't have anything better to say, so you just trash talk each other? What if each person had to come up with one big focus of what they plan to do as president, with a plan of how to do it, and then they actually had to do it?? I don't watch the news much, but the couple of times I have watched pieces of speeches from Obama, I notice that he says what people want to hear. For example, listening to the 2011 State of the Union Speech, Obama says a lot of phrases while offering no follow up. Marco Rubio on the other hand, said things he wanted to do as senator for Florida. On an important issue, healthcare reform, he had a plan at least, an idea of what he wanted.
Roundabouts. Did you notice the YIELD sign? No, it didn't say STOP. Meaning, if there is no one IN the roundabout or APPROACHING you do not need to come to a complete stop. Is it South Florida? English doesn't seem to be the predominant language down here so maybe that's the real issue at hand... Let's be honest, roundabouts are awkward enough - we don't need to create a backup from all sides entering the roundabout.
Wiper fluid. The other week I was driving, when all of the sudden fluid was shooting right in front of my car. The car in front of me had a malfunctioning wiper fluid thingy (ha ha whatever it's called) and it was spraying over the car and right in front of mine. Never saw that before. Pretty entertaining.
Kids. I love how everyone has an opinion on the perfect amount of kids to have. Good thing these people are such experts on the subjects having no kids themselves. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked how many kids I want, and after replying 4 or 5, I've been told that's not really possible with our current economy. Wow. It's amazing how naive some people are. Especially when I know that I am REALLY naive as it is. I grew up in a family of 6 kids and LOVED every second of it. Ok maybe not when I was getting beat up :D Really though, money in versus money out. Is it really that complicated? Isn't it all about priorities? That's great if you know how many kids you want, but don't try to tell me how many kids I can have with the current economy.
6 comments:
loved the post Chelsea. We got our neighbor arrested after finally having had enough of smelling his pot. We told him nicely twice saying, "just so you know, whatever you smoke we can smell it". He not only didn't stop, he amped it up a little. So we called the sheriff's department and on the second time he answered the door and got himself arrested on three charges. He has since backed off so we are okay with it, because it is better than having a chain smoker. That would be way worse. I know, my right to free clean air, free of locally invasive carbon footprint should be more considered by all those smokers. Seriously, tho, it is a stinky habit.
-Evan N.
You read my mind. I've been bothered with the whole smoking in public issue for a long time. Second-hand smoke is deadly. I breath in someone else's smoke at least once a day. Not cool at all! You preach to the choir, sista!
Loved the post. I loved growing up in a big family too. Don't hate on the hispanics. They may not be able to read English, but what is the government doing to fix that right? If I was the president...
oops, I accidently made that comment as Amy, but it was really my comment. -Caleb
Chels, that was really fun and smart and I don't think you got beat up much...you kept your siblings in line!
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