Stop Being So Angry!!!!


I took a trip a few weeks ago to Puerto Rico....(yes hence the bikini blog). I was sitting tucked neatly  in my window seat looking out at the men beneath loading luggage and airplane food, when a very loud woman came down the aisle.  She was obviously upset and was talking loudly so everyone could not help but hear her complaints, looking in her mid-twenties.  An over sized suitcase was bouncing angrily behind her while she waved her free arm in dramatic gestures.  "I will never fly on Delta again...she ranted to her friend only seconds behind her.  They told me I have to check my bag...which I am not going to do...they made me take a shuttle to get to my gate and then they made me walk down a ramp."  She was obviously put out.  I strained my neck past the extra large passenger wedged beside me to get a better look.   Was she serious?  Could this creature from the" I am the Center of the Universe Planet" waving her long bright fingernails in angry gestures be...... serious?  When did we all get so self-centered and feel like we have rights to everything?  That the world turns on our every whim and if it does not... it better..... or we will find a lawyer who agrees with us
 ( or at least agrees to making money on it) and will sue anyone who feels differently. I cringed and still do.  Have we fallen into such a state of "Have it my way", that we cannot be human anymore.  Sometimes when I am driving I see little angry faces in cars daring me to butt in or make a wrong move... ready to sound the "I was inconvenienced alarm" by honking their horn. Last month, I pulled into a gas station but did not pull forward enough.  The man behind me went ballistic.  It was an honest error which I apologized for, profusely.  He gave a horrible gesture and threats and squealed off.  Really?  This is the greatest country that has ever been on the planet .....ever!!  And I mean ever.  I love America.  I love the freedom we have, the industry of a bright intelligent people, and the freedom we have...(did I already mention freedom).  So I ask again REALLY?  Have we been so bamboozled into believing that we are the only thing that matters in life. Have we been sucked into the "ME" generation so far we cannot see the "Find a Lawyer and Sue them for anything Monsters" we have become. When did courtesy become an 4 letter word? (Because I counted and it is still an 8 letter word.)  When did Love become a 4 letter word. (Now that one is actually a 4 letter word but I digress.)  Why don't we all stop being so angry?  Why don't the protesters around the country go home and get a real life.  Sitting in pathetic groups around the country eating bad food and planning violent attacks on innocent people is not really a life...!
Well...not a good life.  So for now I guess I will go and sweep the floors and weed the garden and practice my gas parking skills.... of how far to park forward of the pump.  Maybe if I painted my nails red and carried a bigger suitcase I could command more respect or maybe, just maybe.... I could just command more respect by actually............. earning it. (That's something that is really on the extinct list.)