things you over hear that you really dont want to
Roommate and I were at the buck truck last night having coffee and these truckers decided that they wanted to have a conversation with the entire restaurant. Well they were mostly talking to each other but the entire restaurant could hear.
first they started talking about how gas is $4/gal. no surprise there, but then they started talking about how a bunch of truckers were supposed to go down to D.C. to try to shut the city down in protest of gas prices. how is taking an unnecissary trip, thus needing to buy more gas, a good protest? that's pretty much giving in to what you're protesting. a better protest would be to find some kind of alternative where you don't buy any gasoline for an extended period of time. but yeah, drive to D.C. and protest, then meet at the pump and discuss how well the protest went. awesome.
then the man sitting behind me, whom i never actually saw, said that the solution to all of this country's problems would be for us to shut the entire country down for a day. what exactly would this accomplish? and you can't really shut america down seeing as how it is not a single entity but rather a collective noun used to linguistically describe the entire populace of the country. this man is speaking of this task like america is some kind of machine and all you'd have to do is hit the off switch. i hope he has fun with his endeavor.
then this man started talking about how the one thing that he liked in DC was the world war two memorial and this set him on another tangent with the man across the room, whom i think, though he had very conservative (and blantantly ignorant) views shared a striking resemblance to Weird Al. Man-Sitting-Behind-Me said that he couldn't understand what took them so long to do a memorial for this war when we had finished fighting it in 1945, shouldn't it have been done immediately? To which "Wierd Al" mumbled something about "forgotten heros". I am not an archetect or a historian or whatever other profession is needed for such things, but I do understand the following:
*When it comes to a memorial for something that is a defining moment in history, it will take a long time before an idea can be agreed upon, let alone finalized.
*Funding is a must. If you don't have the funds, it doesn't get built
*Location, public acesss, security etc.
*Time. Rome wasn't built in a day, God created the earth in 6....see where I'm going?
I don't know if this is at all logical, or just some random thought it my head, but WWII was pretty much viewed as a "success" unlike the war in Vietnam, which was seen as a failure. There wasn't really a need to hurry up and do something that validated the loss of life for WWII, because unlike Vietnam it seemed to serve a purpose rather than be all for naught. (Not that I am saying that the Vietnam memorial is less legitemate or had been more hastily planned, but perhaps there was less need to justify it's purpose.)
then Man-Behind-Me said that the next people in office had to look out for the youth, because they were the next generation. (um duh?) to which Weird Al responded, "yeah but the youth doesn't want to work, they all want the $20/hr jobs, they feel like they're entitied to whatever. my son doesn't want to work and he's 20." my thoughts? well perhaps the problem isn't the youth in general, maybe it's just your son. perhaps he's just a lazy moocher, who's father (persay) wasn't the best role model when it came to instilling some work ethic.
then they started bitching about the presidential candidates. Weird Al decided that he didn't want "Billary" (good news, he got his wish). and then some girl said that Obama would get shot on his first day and why couldn't Ron Paul have gotten it. To which my roommate said, "Nader looks better everyday sometimes." Then Weird Al started talking about the last election and how he had been living in florida at the time and all he heard about for an entire year was about how some of the votes were supposedly not counted. hate to break it to him but for an entire year that's what the rest of the country heard about as well. it wasn't exactly an isolated thing.
and this coming election, i think that florida and ohio should vote a day before all the other states, just so that they don't fuck up this time.
so that was my eventful night at the truck stop. and i will leave you with a random quote i heard from a girl sitting in the booth behind me.
"it was a tornado, like hurricane katrina" man behind her mumbles something to which she responds "fuck that man, only if i want to sleep on a cardboard box in the kitchen."
oh and roommate just informed me that she heard the best awful insult ever, i had heard it previously (at houghton of all places) but it needs be shared. roommate was talking about her ex being a bag of douche and a guy responded "oh my god, he's such a twat waffle." my roommate then goes "isn't that a wonderful image? how exactly do you make a twat waffle? and does she ding when she's done?"
first they started talking about how gas is $4/gal. no surprise there, but then they started talking about how a bunch of truckers were supposed to go down to D.C. to try to shut the city down in protest of gas prices. how is taking an unnecissary trip, thus needing to buy more gas, a good protest? that's pretty much giving in to what you're protesting. a better protest would be to find some kind of alternative where you don't buy any gasoline for an extended period of time. but yeah, drive to D.C. and protest, then meet at the pump and discuss how well the protest went. awesome.
then the man sitting behind me, whom i never actually saw, said that the solution to all of this country's problems would be for us to shut the entire country down for a day. what exactly would this accomplish? and you can't really shut america down seeing as how it is not a single entity but rather a collective noun used to linguistically describe the entire populace of the country. this man is speaking of this task like america is some kind of machine and all you'd have to do is hit the off switch. i hope he has fun with his endeavor.
then this man started talking about how the one thing that he liked in DC was the world war two memorial and this set him on another tangent with the man across the room, whom i think, though he had very conservative (and blantantly ignorant) views shared a striking resemblance to Weird Al. Man-Sitting-Behind-Me said that he couldn't understand what took them so long to do a memorial for this war when we had finished fighting it in 1945, shouldn't it have been done immediately? To which "Wierd Al" mumbled something about "forgotten heros". I am not an archetect or a historian or whatever other profession is needed for such things, but I do understand the following:
*When it comes to a memorial for something that is a defining moment in history, it will take a long time before an idea can be agreed upon, let alone finalized.
*Funding is a must. If you don't have the funds, it doesn't get built
*Location, public acesss, security etc.
*Time. Rome wasn't built in a day, God created the earth in 6....see where I'm going?
I don't know if this is at all logical, or just some random thought it my head, but WWII was pretty much viewed as a "success" unlike the war in Vietnam, which was seen as a failure. There wasn't really a need to hurry up and do something that validated the loss of life for WWII, because unlike Vietnam it seemed to serve a purpose rather than be all for naught. (Not that I am saying that the Vietnam memorial is less legitemate or had been more hastily planned, but perhaps there was less need to justify it's purpose.)
then Man-Behind-Me said that the next people in office had to look out for the youth, because they were the next generation. (um duh?) to which Weird Al responded, "yeah but the youth doesn't want to work, they all want the $20/hr jobs, they feel like they're entitied to whatever. my son doesn't want to work and he's 20." my thoughts? well perhaps the problem isn't the youth in general, maybe it's just your son. perhaps he's just a lazy moocher, who's father (persay) wasn't the best role model when it came to instilling some work ethic.
then they started bitching about the presidential candidates. Weird Al decided that he didn't want "Billary" (good news, he got his wish). and then some girl said that Obama would get shot on his first day and why couldn't Ron Paul have gotten it. To which my roommate said, "Nader looks better everyday sometimes." Then Weird Al started talking about the last election and how he had been living in florida at the time and all he heard about for an entire year was about how some of the votes were supposedly not counted. hate to break it to him but for an entire year that's what the rest of the country heard about as well. it wasn't exactly an isolated thing.
and this coming election, i think that florida and ohio should vote a day before all the other states, just so that they don't fuck up this time.
so that was my eventful night at the truck stop. and i will leave you with a random quote i heard from a girl sitting in the booth behind me.
"it was a tornado, like hurricane katrina" man behind her mumbles something to which she responds "fuck that man, only if i want to sleep on a cardboard box in the kitchen."
oh and roommate just informed me that she heard the best awful insult ever, i had heard it previously (at houghton of all places) but it needs be shared. roommate was talking about her ex being a bag of douche and a guy responded "oh my god, he's such a twat waffle." my roommate then goes "isn't that a wonderful image? how exactly do you make a twat waffle? and does she ding when she's done?"