We had a brown-out in the city tonight. After all of us hanging out in our building's car park for half and hour, we were told to off it--with pay.
I got home, barely light to see by, so after putting the perishables in the fridge in the freezer as a precaution, I dumped a tin of raviolli in a pan, and put it on the cooker, got out some lettuce, dumped some bottled salad dressing on it, and sat out on the balcony and ate my naf meal. I was losing the light rapidly, and had no clue when power would be restored, so I had to make something quick, while I still could see to cook and eat. Figures. Halfway through eating, power came back on. So, didn't have my Cajun black beans and rice with smoked sausage and corn for dinner--had stinking Chef Boyardee tinned pasta and a few bites of last week's lettuce, that hadn't quite wilted yet.
But thank goodness we were sent home at half-past seven. Things were not going well, for me:
There we were, trying to sell stuff to people who mostly don't want it---one "nice" yuppie type (aka a totally inhuman southern poodle, named Susan Shockley) woofed at me, before I barely got a word out "I don't talk to people I don't care about!" And promptly slammed the phone down--deliberately hurting my ear. She didn't even ask what I wanted, the pathetic empty-headed cow. You folks in the U.K. have your chavs? We in the US call them "white trash." Rich or poor, I'm sorry to say this, trash is as trash does. I sincerely hate to imagine what her mother is like (shudders). I felt like asking her if she was raised in a farmyard.
I HATE my culture! I mean, I love my country for what it used to stand for, love the land, most of the history behind it(tho' some is not to be proud of) Love the ideas, and not all people are bad, no. I wouldn't want to give that impression--but sometimes, I sort of understand why foreign interests hate us so much--we hate the hell out of each other, and unlike terrorists, who usually have religious/political agendas, Americans hate each other---just because they can.
Too many Americans have become so isolated from each other, that they're losing their civilized veneer, and, slowly, by inches--and sometimes by yards--they're losing their very humanity.
And, I hate the hate, I guess. I'm positively bogged-down weary of it. I've been so subjected to pettiness, meaness and senseless hate in my lifetime, I'm just...disgusted by it all. I suppose it wouldn't matter where I go. I suppose maybe it's not cultural--maybe people hate each other and behave like dumb animals and are rotten, everywhere on this planet. Maybe it's just the way things are, in the modern world. I don't know...
