WARNING! Mrs. N. is even more cheesed off than usual today, so, you may want to take that into consideration before you proceed. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful spring day here in Dixie and I feel physically superb. My other half, who underwent a somewhat perilous surgical adventure a matter of days ago, …
… reports feeling just peachy. For that I am grateful. I’m not grateful to anyone, or, any thing in particular because I’m not religiously afflicted. I figure it’s all pretty much chance, random events and happenstance in this lovely meat grinder, this one way ride through the Land of the Absurd. No, I’m just feeling grateful in a generic sense. In a sense that it’s spring and nobody has a brain tumor, or, a hideous skin rash and boils today… at least in my house. But it doesn’t stop me from bitching. I still have my work. There is still all the crap that goes on around me, that nonsense that other people are up to… the stuff that does the one thing that irritates the shit out of me more than anything else. That stupid crap that makes me embarrassed to be of my species…. and, in the spring when everything is looking alive and “shiny new greeny”… it just stands out, like something caught in my eye. You know?
Here is this years picture. I took it today. It’s what Mrs. N. has to look at, on the way in, to shop at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is a company owned by the richest family in America. America is widely considered to be the richest country in the world. Wal-Mart has more employees than some countries have citizens. They pay their employees squat. Peanuts! I’m sure the family that owns Wall-Mart views all their employees as so many peasants, the way kings were accustomed to viewing people who were ridiculously poor and unfortunate compared to them. I don’t really see how they can help it. Human beings are stinkers that way and have been throughout recorded history. It’s so embarrassing.
These Wal-Mart creeps pay their peasants so little that their spouses and children, who are peasants too, qualify for government provided health care. Some deal. The Wall-Mart Family makes a killing and sticks the taxpayers with the health care bill. You know why? Because they believe in Capitalism. They hate Socialism. The fuckers must laugh themselves to sleep every night of the week.
But, I digress… Look at that picture above. Every time I see that wall… that testament to half-assery… that red-neck salute to the meaning of “American Workmanship”… I get pissed off. The GOD DAMNED Chinese can build a wall that lasts 2000 years… And, looks like this today!
and THIS is the shit we build.
It’s a fucking miracle I can drag my ass out of bed in the morning when I have to put up with this kind of shit. Who the hell in their right mind puts their name on a piece of shit, bit of construction, like this? Who “signed off” on this disaster? I have asked The Building Inspector. I have enquired politely of the County Director of Safety and, oddly enough, they are hesitant to discuss the matter. It appears Mrs. N. will be forced to resort to one of her specialties. She doesn’t want to. She is beginning to feel that it is being thrust upon her, so to speak. Mrs. N. will have no choice but to become exceedingly rude, belligerent and obnoxious. Sarcasm will be employed liberally. Mrs. N. will make enemies.
There was a time when Mrs. N. used to care about things like that. Making enemies that is. That time is long past. Now all Mrs. N. cares about is stopping the embarrassment, even if it is just a little. Saying FUCK NO when that is the only thing it makes sense to say. Not being shy about it.
I read in the paper that the new plan is to hire armed guards for all the schools in the county. It should cost about $1,000,000 a year to do this. As long as nobody tells the crazy people with guns that they can kill children in “other places”, just as easily, I’m sure that the increase in property taxes to pay for the guards will be more than worth it. I’m just thankful I live in Tea-Party Republican Country. Here we know that Government is the problem, not the solution. Here most of us are positive that evolution is a stinking lie, and that Obama is a Muslim just itching to take away all our guns.
Mrs. N. worries about the road ahead. Things seem to be shaker than they have ever been before. If I didn’t know better I would think my teeth were moving around in my head at night. In the morning, sometimes, they are in places I just don’t ever remember seeing them before.
Maybe I just need a vacation. Perhaps someplace on the water……
Kiss, kiss
Mrs. N.
Mrs. Neutron's Garage 