Lets talk about fear, not tangible
fear... like bees (fuck that), *we don't need to be scared of bees.
but the fear that is spreading through America slowly but surely.
This is the kind of fear that has people treat every day situations
like they are life threatening.
This post comes to you courtesy of my
ride into work this morning. I turned on to Fisher St. as I do every
day, Today by luck of traffic I was a few minutes earlier than usual
(crap). Fisher is about 2 miles long and usually a painless drive,
HOWEVER, today instead of it taking me about 4 minutes to get from
one end to the other it took me 15. Do you want to know why? Of
course you do, I ended up behind a school bus, which normally would
annoy me... Today it pissed me off. This bus in the span of half a
mile stopped 14 times. 14!! Are you kidding me?! Basically I could
see 4 stops in advance around the buss, the freaking thing stopped at
every other house to pick up 1 or 2 kids. I was losing my shit by
the 6th stop. And this went on for 8 more stops before
the bus finally turned onto another street (Thank Christ).
It got me thinking, and since I had
plenty of time to think with that yellow monstrosity creeping along
in front of me I hammered out some good thoughts. First I thought of
all the things I would do with 106 million dollars... They had just
announced the Power Ball and well, come on you think about it too.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand; I thought of my childhood, I would
walk from my house to the center of town (¼ mile maybe) where about
a dozen kids would pick up the bus. At some point the bus stop was
moved to right in front of my house, what a great day that was! But
still, the other kids had to walk to it. And this was me at maybe 9
or 10 years old, yeah I am sure most parents watched their kids and
whatnot, but even still today on the drive almost all of the kids
were sitting in their parents cars waiting for the bus anyway. So
what's the difference? What has us so scared that we can;t let our
kids walk 4 houses over and catch the bus? If the thing stopped 5
times in that stretch I would have been fine, It would have been
unnecessary but I would have been fine. But the bus stopped at
nearly every other house for only half a mile. Is it kids getting
abducted? Is it the “helicopter” parents who are scared that
their children will be left out of the fun? In all honesty bus stops
are a blast. We use to play wiffel ball in my yard waiting for the
bus, and then if there was time, we would hit each other with the
bat... Ahh the good days.
America seems scared of it's own shadow
these days, we constantly make up reasons for our bad behaviors. We
are trying to justify them as if it matters... It doesn't. “Listen,
person who isn't me, it's ok to be scared of bees, you don’t need
to say that you ran away screaming as a 'joke' because it's totally
funny to do that.” Just be honest. I swear that person isn't me.
My wife is a teacher, she teaches 3rd
grade, and let me tell you, her kids are dumb. Not all of them, but
if you had a hand full of rocks and you threw them at her students
(don't do this) the kids the rocks hit are dumb. Let me also clarify
this, all kids are dumb.. . It's not a bad thing, it's just a fact.
They haven't had the life experiences that you and I have had. Guess
what, you were dumb too once (maybe still), but for some reason,
parents today are not letting their kids fail and then learn from
their mistakes. Instead parents are making excuses for their kids
which is totally enabling them to be dumb forever. I'm going to
give you an example of something that recently was done in her
class... I might change a detail or two just to ensure anonymity.
Jenn hands out a Test which the kids
have known about for weeks and have been studying/practicing IN CLASS
with her the whole time. This test was based on a story they read in
class. One kid gets several questions wrong and as a result needs to
have the test signed by a parent and returned the next day, you all
remember these...
So here is the question that the
student got wrong, and then her note afterward...
- What might Dogzilla realistically do?A) Chase cars B) Chew a furniture storeC) Fly D) Prepare taxes
The student chose B... which is wrong.
“Billy didn't understand this
question because we have cats not dogs, so he wouldn't know that dogs
chase cars”
Two things lady, 1) they read the story
in class, which meant that he was at least EXPOSED to dogs. 2) You
are a stupid bitch.
Don't make excuses for your kid! Let
him learn, tell him what he did wrong and maybe get the kid a dog you
ignorant twit. Cats suck. Period.
So this is the end of this particular
rant. Don’t be so scared America, like FDR said “The only thing
we have to fear, is fear itself.” And Bees... Seriously, they are
winged demons.
* Yes we do.
