Pins and needles

That title in itself is hilarious....
....one reason is that right now my pinky on my left hand has gone to sleep and I am having a heck of a time typing the a's as well as reading all the crap I have read today feels like I am getting poked by pins and needles...
Okay now that I have the feeling back in my fingers I can start my rant and hope to hell that I will feel better afterwards.

Each person has their own likes and dislikes, their passions, their opinions and of course their ignorances. I try real hard on a daily basis to give each person their right and freedom to express each of these regardless of how much I would like to knock them flat. Some days are better than others. I guess the hardest part about dealing with this sort of situation is when someone is so damn ignorant and they see no other way. Dealing with the public and their money for 20 years I grew to have a very hard skin and quite a skill of defusing a situation. I am great with kids up until they are about 17 and then again great with aging adults after the age of about 50...it's the in between ages that I need the work on...LOL
I have to keep telling myself just because I strive to improve my knowledge and want to learn about the world around me doesn't mean Joe Blow cares about the same thing. Just once I would like to ram that "holier than thou" attitude up someone's butt, but I don't think I have the bitchiness to follow through on it......yip yip yip I keep wagging my tongue about nothing

Yes, it's true I am a great Nascar fan....sorry to disappoint any of you but I love the need for speed. I have been a racer of fast machines all my life and Nascar just encourages my behavior.
I am a fan of Dale Jr's and Tony Stewart's as well as older favourites like Mark Martin. I find it amusing and disturbing though when I read about the millions of obsessed fans and their attitudes towards individuals such as Dale Jr. Yes I have joined each of Jr's and Stewart's fan clubs once and admit to having belonged for a year to Pam Anderson's fan club. The stuff was worth some dollars on Ebay especially Pam's signed g-string, I just couldn't keep it, something about having a woman's panties sort of made me cringe. I will post about Pam another time but just know she grew up around here and I don't have anything negative to say about her. Anyway getting back to the obsession of Nascar, the breaking story last night was about Shane Hmiel and his SECOND failed drug test, I couldn't believe the amount of people on sites dedicated to Nascar that were calling foul to poor Shane and dilemma!!! Come on people wake up and smell the grass growing, this is his second offense and it's not like he was playing a sport where he wasn't in charge of a 3400 pound friggin' killing machine.....geeeez
Reading the constant news of Dale Jr is like nails run across a chalkboard I feel sorry for the likes of Jade Gurss and Mike Davis who have to try to keep Junior from public saturation. The media slams it down one's throat every chance they can get with either commercials or stories or what if's on a slow day. The commercialism is enough to make a person hurl. Yes I joined a couple fan clubs and enjoy watching the races every week and am a bit of a voyeur when it comes to knowing what's going on, but would I call myself obsessed...damn I hope not
Then there's the story of Smoke, the bad boy of Nascar that as soon as the media found out that he was actually a nice guy they slam him and complain that he isn't the same guy...WAKE UP people you only see what you want to see, what the media circus wants you to see.

One day when I don't care about offending my American friends I will get into how I feel about their country and their present day government........LOL

All I want to tell people is that yes there are some awful things going on in the world but all it takes is one small action or one act of kindness that can make the world a better place. We tend to only come together when there is some catastrophic happening such as the recent Tsunami, this needs to become a common action, the kindness I mean not the catastrophic occurance. There is hunger close to home, homelessness, environmental concerns, abuse of our fellow humans and animals and many other concerns to each of us. Simply put start small and work your way upwards.
Start with a smile as you are walking down the street at a stranger or each of our neighbours could always use a hand, if we want to see the world change each one of us has to do our part. FOR GOODNESS SAKES QUIT LITTERING AND QUIT THROWING YOUR FRIGGIN CIGARETTE BUTTS OUT THE CAR WINDOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing worse than seeing the crap laying on the sides of the roads and highways!!!!

Hmmmm I do feel a little better for that rant, but now my ass hurts from sitting on this uncomfortable chair...and my elderly neighbour across the street needs her grass mowed....so time for me to go make the world a little bit nicer of a place

later taters and enjoy your weekend!!!!