Things that are annoying me lately
When uninspired, lists and bullet points always come in handy. As does a nice old-fashioned rant about What Is Wrong With The World.
- I was walking down the street earlier this week when I heard a prospective freshman, visiting campus for orientation, on the phone with his parents. I know all this about him despite the fact that he was on the opposite side because he was shouting into his phone the whole time we were walking up the street. "YOU NEED TO COME GET MY SHIT," he shouted, "YOU SHOULD HAVE FIGURED THIS OUT LAST NIGHT. COME AND GET THIS SHIT!"
That is no way to talk to your parents. First of all, from the context of the rest of the conversation, it sounded like this was something that he should have figured out last night and he's blaming his parents for something that was his own fault. Second, that was not an appropriate tone. Third of all, I'm ten years older than he is and I still can't use language like that with my parents. I am a little nervous that my mother is going to pick on me just for repeating it in a written form!
When I was in kindergarten, I came home from school one day and demanded of my mother, "You need to go to school and tell Mrs Fischer how to make those children behave." Years later, I feel the same way about a lot of the college students around me. Apparently these parents (and kindergarten teachers) aren't raising their children correctly and the university needs to pay my mommy to set them straight.
- I very pleasantly tweeted recently that I would like to be sent a free sample of Canada Dry's intriguing new Green Tea Ginger Ale. I waited patiently, tweeted again, and still haven't received any word. It is almost as though the Cadbury Beverages company is not scouring the Internet, searching for people who are very passively attempting to ask them for free stuff. Does anyone know anyone at Cadbury? Will review for freebies.
- I really really hate it when a service, restaurant, store or product wants my business but can't be bothered to have a website to advertise said service, restaurant, store or product. How am I supposed to tell my friends about it if I can't send them a link? How will I know what your hours are, what upcoming events or sales you have going on, and how to get to your store? What century is this? Are you from the past? It makes me want to build a site for them.
- And while we're at it, if you do have a website, please don't just put "directions to our location" on your website. I need an address to plug into Google Maps, because your directions from I-70 or I-75 are not going to help those of us who are in the middle of cornfields, far far away from freeways.
- Speaking of Google Maps, I discovered this week that my home town and about four main roads of Srahtown are covered by Google Street View. So far the most exciting thing I've found was a FedEx truck leaving my dad's place of employment.
- Speaking of websites and locations, if I put my zipcode into your website to find the closest location, I should never get "Sorry, no results were found matching your query." You should tell me where the closest location is, even if it is in Pennsylvania. I live in a cornfield and am used to having to drive to get to anything good, so stop telling me I can't visit your store, just because it's not in a 25-mile radius.
srah - Thursday, 12 June 2008 - 7:20 PM
Tags: ginger ale, internet, parenting
