Okay, I know I’m weird. Everybody seems to enjoy complaining about:
the weather
the U.S. Postal Service
Not me. I’ve never understood the universal popularity of bitching about these two things. Don’t get me wrong-- there are plenty of other things that annoy me. But…
Hey, it’s the friggin’ weather. It does what it wants and it always will. That’s the nature of the beastie. If you don’t like the weather, move.
For the price, I think the mail runs pretty well. Sure, there are occasional delays and sometimes stuff gets lost. It’s a big system and it’s run by fallible humans. Shit happens. What do you want for 34 cents?
Does anyone agree with me or am I just not eating with both chopsticks?
I for one, agree with you. For one thing, I am so open-minded that there are very few weather conditions that I don’t like. The exception’s are natural disasters (twisters, and such).
I also love the postal service. I mean, I haven’t ever really had a problem with it, and I think that we expect a lot from them. Especially when you consider how MUCH mail the deal with everyday. I am sure that statisically, mistakes are pretty rare.
I love the changes of the weather, especially here in Utah where we can get into the 100’s in the summer and in the winter when we get buried under 10 feet of snow. We get all extremes that makes things more interesting so who would want to bitch?
Nope, never had a problem with the postal service either (except recently on a package sent to Europe).
I’m saving all my bitching for traffic jams and gas prices.
I’m half with ya. I’ve never complained about the USPS, and I don’t usually complain about the weather in general. I do, however, loathe the rain, and every now and then I may let a negative comment or two slip out. My hatred began while in college, walking the long trek back from class to my dorm. It started raining, so I popped open my umbrella, feeling awfully good that I’d brought one along at all. Then it started really pouring, and suddenly the rain was dripping through the umbrella onto me. So, I walked the whole way back with my umbrella, but still getting dripped on. And ever since then, I’ve found new reasons to hate the rain (traffic is worse, more lawn mowing, having to clean the dog off after he’s been outside… I could go on, but I sound crazy enough as it is).
Do I blame myself for the inadequate umbrella? Hell no. It’s the rain. It’s evil.
Perhaps it’s a bit more of a sociological lesson, no? Let’s try two different conversations, each one launched while a few men and women sit on bleachers by a nice sunny ball field as their sons and daughters play baseball.
Chat One
Okay, not bad- and the talk could go anywhere. How about
Chat Two
People complain about those topics because they’re benign and safe. Now I’ve got this secret monkeysex fantasy involving two postal employees, a 200 foot length of hemp and a hurricane. But then that’s just me. I’m different.
My father complains about the postal service all the time.
Of course, he also works for them. It’s just natural that he complains about his job. The reason stamp prices are going up is because gas is going up. MAN do they use a lot of gas. And the Postal Service is losing a couple billion dollars a year (IIRC.) So save your ranting for gas.
The only way I complain about the weather is “It ALWAYS rains when I’m off!” If it would rain on a work day, since my job is weather-dependant, I wouldn’t have to work!
Case in point-Today. Gotta work. GORGEOUS day outside.
Living in Seattle you learn to take the weather as it comes. Not much point in complaining – the weather is not usually all that bad, it’s just so seldom good. An actual sunny day is celebrated, nay worshipped, on its rare occurentce.
The Post Office? Yeah, all things considered I suppose they do all right. I just wish they’d charge more for delivering junk mail to cut off the flood at the source.
Speaking of mailmen – did you hear about the farmer whose wife kept having children till he finally figured out where they came from? So he moved the mailbox from the house to the road.
No point in complaining about the weather until we can do something about it. The USPS is a different story, tho…they are a legally sanctioned monopoly; by law, no one is allowed to compete with them in the delivery of first class mail, the sort of catbird’s seat Bill Gates would kill his own mother to be in.
Good points all around, especially Cartooniverse…
and I’m with you, Diane: I like the variety. Mashed potatoes are good, but I wouldn’t want to eat them every day. Thunderstorms, in particular, are comforting to me. The ultimate audio-visual show: Ma Nature!
Oh yes! Thunderstorms are wonderful! There isn’t a lot of things better than sitting on the patio with a beer and watching the big, dark, rolling thunder clouds come tumbling across the lake.
Does anyone else love it when the lights go out, the thunder rattles the house, you light candles then sit around the coffee table playing board games with the family?
It’s just natural that he complains about his job. The reason stamp prices are going up is because gas is going up. MAN do they use a lot of gas. And the Postal Service is losing a couple billion dollars a year (IIRC.) So save your ranting for gas.