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Just another day in my life
I then said, "Well, if things were only bad in February then why did you start closing your store two hours earlier way back in October of last year? And why have your prices gone up?" No answer! I walked out wondering why I'd bothered to strike up a conversation in the first place.. I find myself constantly shaking my head. One minute you read that 80% of Americans say they think the Government had something to do with I know they feel bad about the things going on in the world, the War, the economy. They worried about getting sick and having to take off from work and falling short on the monthly bills. But what can they do? Inside their heads this is what they're thinking. but what they're doing is something different. They look around and see that even the homeless people aren't out protesting, things can't be that bad they say! When they find themselves worrying they eat some comfort food or they go out to a movie or they buy a small inexpensive item of to console themselves. Keep busy, anything to avoid on coming the freight train ... In between being at work, the long ride home, and sleeping and sending their young children to day care, they feel guilty not being always there for them, so they take the kids to the park, the mall, or whatever sports activity their kids may be involved with. They try their best to make a 24-hour day stretch as far as they can! It may look like a rut to most outsiders, but for these folks it is their daily ritual. There are only so many hours in the day. Tomorrow seems like it's always Monday. Go to bed, get up, and do it again. ... Then there are those sheeple out there, the ones that I find myself writing about all too often. They truly are lazy, they have plenty of down time, they take leisurely walks, endless coffee breaks, work at doing nothing, sitting practically all day on their ever-widening asses, and when it's the weekend it's party time. They line up deep at the bar, cram those malls. Some of the sheeple actually go to a gym to make amends for being so lazy all during the week. That's the one time they feel guilty, when they start feeling bad about not doing enough for themselves. It's always about them. "God, look at me, I'm fat ... and I need my hair and nails done!" And the internet is their shopping club, all about getting a good deal at amazon.com, and hooking up with someone as narcissistic as themselves at My Space.com. In my own life I have plenty of time to write and be with my daughter, but my husband Leon is out of the house at 7:30 AM and not back until 6:30 PM. He's up and down stairs all day, lifting parts from shelves, answering phones, checking a computer for warehouse parts. It is his daily ritual, and it's very repetitive, not mind-sharpening at all. It is extremely difficult to come home from work, and get one's self to the keyboard and pound out a substantial rant, but nevertheless he manages to get pretty good ones up and published once a month. Can we expect and should we expect all people to be this dutiful? I ask myself that question every day. Am I too hard on them? Am I asking too much? What can I do to make them see that contributing 60 minutes a week minimum of ranting and raving about what's going on in the world is of utmost importance in being a responsible citizen? I guess the answer is to keep hammering away at them until they get it. Like a few weeks back, when I had that great talk with some local cab drivers, how refreshing and rare that was. A bright spot in a long tunnel of darkness! I always have fun with the immigrant workers, too. We have so many here in the suburbs of New Jersey, and the ones I come in contact with, believe it or not speak, pretty good English. I tell them, You wait, you'll see, soon you're gonna have plenty of competition. There'll be plenty of Americans needing that low-wage job too. When the banks take their houses and cars they can no longer pay for, when their homes have been devalued just like our worthless money, the only thing there will be time for is work and sleep, just so they can keep a roof over their heads. We will all be working at the same few company stores together. Two classes, ultra rich and ultra poor. That's what's coming down the pike, folks. Honest to God, I hope I'm wrong! Kathy Fisher
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