What’s the deal with the first day of school pictures? I did it. ONCE. After kindergarten what is the big fucking deal?

My parents never did this. Aside from the fact that we didn’t have Facebook and Twitter, I just don’t think it was such a milestone like it is today. Going to school was something you just did. It wasn’t something to celebrate. Earning good grades and graduating were milestones to celebrate. 

Society today is RUINING OUR CHILDREN. They’re all soft and crumble at the slightest negativity that comes their way. Instead of fighting back and standing up for themselves they threaten to tell parents or teachers. Is this what we want for society?

If I do have children I won’t be taking pictures of them every five minutes. The Internet needs a rest.

That time has come again. The weekend is almost over. Fun time has come to an end. The sun has set and the loathing and dread has set in.

Commute time is upon us! And to make it worse, more school districts are starting school tomorrow. That means more kiddiepoo spam on the trains and on the streets in the morning with their slow moving school buses.

This happens every weekend on Sunday but on a long weekend like this, the feelings of loathing and dread are magnified. 

Can’t wait for the morning. Weekend time is over! BACK TO WORK YOU LAZY BASTARDS!

Earlier this week there was another clusterfuck on the Fail Road. I was 20 minutes late because of it but it was better than being 2 hours late like thousands of others were, so I will not complain.

What I will complain about is the complete fucking mess that is our mass transportation system here in the New York area. Yes the subway is a marvel of engineering and forethought. Yes, the LIRR and Metro North are useful to bring people to the city over longer distances. All of that I do not dispute. 

The system is in horrible condition. The big one has yet to come. One day soon there will be a complete shutdown of the LIRR. It will last for days. Everyone will play the blame game (from the pols to the officials on down). They will have nobody to blame for themselves.

All we can do is be thankful it hasn’t happened yet. Hopefully Congress will do the right thing and get things straightened out here. And Schumer, DO YOUR FUCKING JOB!

Audio Commentary for The Big One

I hate Back To School Time. It’s not because I have flashbacks about when I was still in school. Or because I don’t want to relive that feeling of loathing and dread that always crept back into your life at the end of every August. No. It’s NONE OF THAT.

What I hate about back to school time is all the whiners bitching about waking up early, resuming their teaching jobs, and rejoining society.

I have no sympathy. While you people were doing nothing, there were millions of other people for whom life went on. They still woke up every day and trudged to their jobs. While you were home lounging by the pool or having other fun, these people were on stifling hot trains, long commutes and being delayed and annoyed.

Shut up and get back to work. Who do you think was still working and paying taxes so you could enjoy all that fun? US! Shut up and get back to work.

The other part of this back to school bullshit that I can’t stand is the kids clogging up the trains again. Here come the massive backpacks, the large mobs and slow walking zombies. There should be separate trains for the kiddiepoos in the morning. I can’t wait to be whacked by the backpack of some oblivious snotnosed little shitlicker with the ipod buds on because he’s too fucking lazy to put the bag on the ground.

Finally, we arrive at the parents. If you hate back to school time so much THEN YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD CHILDREN. You knew this was going to happen. If you hate it so much then why have children and subject yourself to years of this torment? I just don’t understand it. 

STOP FUCKING WHINING AND GET BACK TO WORK AND SCHOOL! DO IT AND SHUT UP AND ENJOY IT!

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I am not in the mood for your bullshit today. 

I started feeling sick on Saturday. That is when I started the medicine. I felt better yesterday but was still coughing and feeling like crap. I arrive at work today and they say to me that I shouldn’t be there. I’m coughing all over the place and I could get someone sick.

After hearing that I finished my important work and left the office. Then the shit started.

Two people on the LIRR had bikes. And a woman had her massive bag in the aisle, everyone tripping over it. One on the train from Brooklyn. The other on the train from Valley Stream. The guy from Valley Stream really pissed me off. Not only was his bike dirty and disgusting, he had a longreach pruner for a tree tied to his bike. The only thing covering the razor sharp blade was a cheap plastic bag, The conductor said NOTHING. It was a danger.

The woman was on the train from Jamaica to Valley. She pushed her way onto the train and plopped her ass down in the first seat of the main aisle. Then she drags her bag and leaves it next to her. Once again, the conductor says NOTHING. Why the fuck are they even there?! If you allow the people to do whatever the fuck they want, they will. There is NO LAW AND ORDER ON THE FUCKING TRAINS! ENOUGH!!

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The other night, it happened again. As I was waiting at the Union Square subway station for the Q train to arrive and the doors opened, it happened.

There were THREE fucking strollers in the rear area of the train. On top of that there was a person in a wheelchair. No, I’m not pissed off at the guy in the wheelchair (the rear areas of the newer trains are supposed to be for them), what I’m pissed off at is THE FUCKING STROLLERS!

I’m not against children. I’m not against the fucking strollers clogging up 1/4 of the fucking train car. I tried to enter but the mommy Nazis wouldn’t move. One of them said to a guy as he tried to enter, “You’re too close, my baby will be scared”. Well fuck you bitch!

Keep the strollers OFF of the rush hour trains. Sometimes there is barely enough room for the fucking people let alone the strollers. Please have some sympathy for us working bastards and STAY THE FUCK OFF THE TRAINS UNTIL RUSH HOUR IS OVER. If that is not possible then fold up the stroller and hold the kid. We need more fucking room

Audio Commentary For “It Happened Again”

If you are boarding a train, please stay as quiet as possible during your ride, If you’re with others, speak softly. If you’re making a phone call, please don’t speak loudly. 

Why are people such inconsiderate loudmouth assholes during their commutes? I don’t give a shit about your children or your wife or husband or the other mundane bullshit of your life.

Get on the train and SHUT THE FUCK UP! If you can’t handle this, then stay home or drive. I don’t need to hear your shit. I swear sometimes it sounds like clucking chickens when some people get on. Especially the women! I’m sorry. Is that not nice? Was that not politically correct? Do you think I give a shit?

One would hopefully think that after someone is out of their diapers that they would know how to act in public. If they do not, then I can only say that their parents have failed. They have failed that person and the rest of society. Unfortunately there are no do overs. The rest of us must tolerate this asshole’s bad behavior.

We’ve hit Maximum Dilbert. We’re having a meeting…ABOUT FUCKING MEETINGS.

At the office, there are many meetings. Some are necessary. Some are not. Most of them go on for a very long time. Most are not as productive as they should be because nobody knows how to run a meeting. On top of that, even if you present an agenda and a time limit, there’s always that one guy who feels they have a right to go completely off on a tangent and start yapping about a topic that is not the focus of the current meeting.

We had the meeting on Tuesday and as usual it was not productive. All of the wrong things were said. I didn’t raise my hand to offer any comments because nobody wants to hear them.

I would have said:

• The meting organizer should send the Topic, Purpose, and Agenda of the meeting with the meeting invitation. They should also send any documents to read of point out items to be familiar with.
• If there are doubts as to the need for the meeting, after the invite is sent, discuss separately in person or via email. If more than 5 emails are needed, the meeting should be done.
• The meeting should be no more than 1 hour (even for planning)
• The meeting organizer starts the meeting by taking attendance and begins with a short introduction and begins the discussion.
• Be succinct when speaking and stop saying UMM UHHH AHHH ERRR. Think it, process it and GET IT OUT!
• Never leave the meeting without an outcome and action items. Never plan another meeting in an ongoing meeting.

Anyway, back to the same old bullshit!

 

There have been quite a few people throughout the years who have told me “you’re not a people person, you don’t get along with anyone”. That could not be farther from the truth. Please allow me to explain.

I don’t have a problem with people. It’s the stupid ones that I have a problem with. What is a “stupid person”? I’m glad you asked.

For me a “stupid person” is someone who thinks nothing of not following directions, inconveniencing you, or wasting your time. Yet if you do the same to them, they are the first to complain and never shut up. People like that deserve a smack in the head, a kick in the ass and to be shunned completely. They are to be publicly shamed and ridiculed. They are not worth my time. Having said all that, I have no choice but tolerate bullshit from people like this on an every day basis.

Every day that I wake up I try to do my best to live up to my own expectations (admittedly very high) and to not get in anyone else’s way. Other people, they can care less. They arrive to the office when they please. They don’t read email or other notifications. They even go so far as to claim “train delays” when in reality they were late in waking up and late to work AGAIN.

Why are people like this? What compels them at act like such assholes? Who knows. I really don’t care.

My new mission in life is to delete these people from my circles entirely. I have no time or patience for them. If I can’t do that then I will do everything I can to let them know that I do not like their offensive behavior. 

The sad part is people like this will never correct their behavior. The only thing I can do is suffer and endure. The end is coming and it can’t come soon enough.

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Yesterday (August 6) was another banner day for the Fail Road. 

In the morning, there was another unexplained delay when arriving at Atlantic Terminal. Why were we six minutes late? Who the hell knows. We were just happy to get there. Nobody asks questions, nobody cares. At Brooklyn, the prevailing attitude once people hit the platform is “Get the fuck outta my way, I HAVE TO GET TO THE SUBWAY!”

On the way home, there was a “10 minute delay” because of a disabled train in FOREST HILLS. This 10 minute delay stretched into almost 20 minutes by the time we arrived home. How does this happen? How is this possible? How does a disabled train in a place that we don’t even roll through affect a train like ours? WHO KNOWS. I think the Fail Road does this on purpose.

Conspiracy theories aside, it’s another 20 minutes taken from my life that I’ll never get back. What I would be doing otherwise does not matter. All I know is I had to wait, and that pisses me off!