Take for example Pet Peeve #1. Society has this amazing thing called a “car”, which you can drive. It is inconceivable to me, how a person has the brains to operate this awesome piece of machinery with such power, but can’t figure out how to use a turn signal.

And if you don’t know why you should use a turn signal… I can’t help you. But I can give you a clue that starts with “common” and ends with “courtesy”. Don’t believe in that? that is a whole other issue on its own

Pet Peeve #3 – Today’s Headlines

The “news” isn’t so much about news anymore, it’s more about having a clickbait-headline. If you can actually get a person to stop, that is step one. If you can get a person to stop and click, feeding the data-collecting beast, you are nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. If you can get someone to stop and actually read for 30 seconds, you’re nominated for “Journalist of the Year”. Writers of these headlines… I have no clue who they are, or where they come from; Ivy League grads perhaps. Regardless, these headlines created to “wow” you are akin to an (supposedly) intellectually-superior humanoid (2020) going back to the ice age and taunting a Neanderthal man with a cheeseburger, wanting to lure him into a booby-trap, while hoping to capture him for scientific research.

Journalism in 2020:

Human – want – cheeseburger? Come, (stupid) human… click bait-link…get reward.

Today’s headlines are so pathetically condescending to the concept of an evolving, intelligent, human race. It’s like we’ve taken a giant collective emotional step backwards. Sad, really. 

P.P. #5 – Commenting on my Eating Habits

I am respectful and careful in public not to be gross, or a slob when I eat. I have a certain eating decorum which would fit in most establishments & households throughout the world. So why do you feel the necessity, to let me know…

Person: Oh, you eat that food every day, or, you order the same food, or you are eating pizza again, you must like pizza!

No, I’m eating pizza again because my doctor said I was not obese enough and I needed to add a few more layers of fat! I’m about to bite into the one thing today that is keeping me sane, please stick to your own food business! I don’t comment about your eating habits – why do you have to comment about mine? If I want to have friggin’ tacos for breakfast, I am having friggin’ tacos for breakfast! By the way, Taco Bell, why can I get breakfast in the afternoon but not lunch in the morning? Please start serving regular beef tacos for breakfast, W.O.C. would appreciate it (:

Pet Peeve #7 – Institutional Hypocrisy

I just love it when a Company, any Company, preaches to me their Corporate values on life, as if I am the dumbest m*********** to walk this planet!

Before I continue my sarcastic rant, let me pause to thank my potato chip company for reminding me to be kind today (see pic). I know I would have forgotten to do so, had I luckily not been eating barbeque-flavored chips for breakfast (chased down with a 16 ounce Pabst Blue Ribbon).

Just to make sure that I didn’t forget this profound life advice, I wrote it down on a sticky note and plastered it on my forehead before walking out the door. And by god, it worked too! I did remember to be kind! The first person I saw, who was a complete stranger, I stopped and asked him, “Sir- how are you feeling?”

Though I am not sure if his response, “Piss off!” was the advice written on his morning bag of potato chips… I took his advice.

Institutional hypocrisy is a disease! Beer or liquor companies telling us to be responsible, or a shoe company preaching life ethics, is pathologically corrupt; not to mention surreal.

It’s twisted virtuous falseness, often referred to as marketing prowess, which really just pumps out more B.S. than a Texas LongHorn Steer after a night of binge eating Chalupa Supreme Tacos at Taco Bell.

All I can say is, thank you to all you corporations out there for showing the way. Had it not been for your concern that I should “care” more, like you do, which you delivered through your righteous marketing ploy, then by god – I don’t think I would have ever thought of to be so socially conscious.

Corporate hypocrisy pisses me off to no end! Bring back the Mom & Pop shops!  #Bringbackthemom&popshops.

(Facetious) Disclaimer:

Eating barbeque-flavored chips chased with beer for breakfast should be taken into consideration as part of a well-balanced diet 🙂

W.O.C. in no way encourages excessive use of alcoholic beverages, or other recreational narcotics to numb the senses… (that is until a reasonable age is reached and you realize the harsh reality that you are just a tiny little screw in the Mack Truck of life).