Stupid People

Is it just me or is there an abundance of stupid people in this world? Let's start with my daily commute to work. I've been driving from Oshawa to Toronto for over two-and-a-half years now and the amount of stupid drivers out there is amazing. I can't understand why people just can't flick on their signal when they are switching lanes. It is just common courtesy. It's almost as bad as the idiots who speed up in bumper to bumper traffic so I can't change into the lane I want to go to. No sense at all. Speaking of bumper to bumper if you are tailgating someone the traffic ain't going to go quicker. You just have a greater chance of rear ending the dude when he slams on his breaks. I've seen it happen. My favourite thing to do to drivers who tailgate me (in normal or busy traffic) is to slow right down just to piss them off. Then when they try to pass me I speed up again. If I'm going 140km in the fast lane don't tailgate me. I'm not going any faster because I don't want my car confiscated by the cops under the Ontario street racing law.

Let's talk about stupid pedestrians. When there is a hand on the streetlight that means don't walk or if the words "don't walk" are on the light that means DON'T WALK. I hate when people casually stroll across the street while I'm driving down it. I purposely speed up just to scare the shit out of them. If one day I happen to hit one it won't be my fault as they were jay walking. It's called Karma and evolution as the smartest will survive. Deal with it stupid people.

As I said I'm from Oshawa. We have a cornucopia of stupid people here. You can recognize them in many ways. The guys often have wife beater shirts on, are walking a pit bull or rotweiller and can't string more than two sentences together without swearing. The women often have tight track pants on, a shirt that doesn't fit and have the same vocabulary as the guys with the dogs (and they're often walking with the guys with the dogs). The stupidity can often be spotted at a young age. Just go to the Oshawa Centre at any time of the day and look for the 14-year-old kids pushing baby strollers. They've passed it on - it's a never ending cycle. The last hint is by walking into any variety store and watching someone cash in a plethora of lottery tickets, spend all their winnings ($10 here $5 there, free ticket) plus lay out a bunch of cash on top of that for even more lottery tickets. These people are usually dressed shabbily and have holes in their shoes. They are also the ones who will take no responsiblity for their own disease (if they happen to be gambling addicts) and want to sue someone else (e.g. - OLG; casino; etc.).

I find a lot of stupid people at Tim Horton's. I'll be waiting in line for like 10 minutes and when the person ahead of me orders they chose that time to start looking for change. If you have 10 minutes to wait why not get your money ready then? Makes sense to me.

Then there's the bank machine people. If two out of the three machines are busted and there's a line up. Please have some courtesy and put off paying the dozen checks, doing your taxes, etc. until a less busy time. Also bank machine kiosks are not garbage dumps. I think the people who use them as dumps are the same ones mentioned in my Shwa part of this post.

I guess I'm still in a bad mood from my very Crappy Christmas and Shitty New Year. DOH!!!
Dave the Dude