After spending over an hour on a half-empty “express” bus stuck in parking-lot traffic to the Pentagon so I could catch a half-empty train heading the other way (Metro’s soak-the-surburbanites routing systems are another rant for another day), I have a message to the people of Washington:
If you’re going to be [NASAL WHIINE]skeered[/NASAL WHINE] to go about your normal daily routine every September 11, fine. STAY HOME, CRAWL UNDER YOUR BED, AND WRAP YOURSELF IN PLASTIC SHEETING AND DUCT TAPE, thus keeping your sorry self out of the way of the rest of us who have a life.
God, people are so dumb. When I took my son to school this morning, it seemed like there were a whole lot less kids showing up. This was confirmed when the traffic cop commented to one of the teachers aides standing on the sidewall, “Where is everyone today?” and the teacher’s aide responded, “Well, you know, today is five years after September Eleventh.”
Yeah, really smart everyone. I’m sure five years after the largest terrorist attack on American soil, there gonna do a follow up by bombing an elementary school in a Mississippi suburb.
Sorry, I just think it’s hilarious when people just say “It’s the anniversary of September 11th.” September 11 happened for several years BEFORE 2001, or so I’ve heard. I don’t have a cite.
That’s my biggest pet peeve about the whole thing. I’m a native New Yorker (exiled for a while to the South), and you know what? On September 12th, 5 years ago, we were burying our dead and trying to go about our business because no terrorists were going to scare us into being anything less than the greatest goddamned city in the world.
But a large chunk of middle America still wets itself over it. Of course, that’s when it’s not calling out for blood - any blood- and more and more measures to keep us ‘safe.’
The first year Sit-n-Sleep has a 9-11 Mattress sale, I’m going to activate an armed rebellion. Sign up now, and you could be a commissioned officer when the day comes to storm the ramparts.
I have a page-a-day calendar of Bush quotes (“The Very Curious Language of George W. Bush”). Today, for some reason, is marked as “Patriot Day (USA).” I wasn’t aware of any formal holiday declaration, but there it is.
Apparently I’m supposed to be spending Patriot Day at home cleaning my house. My Google ads are for quick shine floor care products, dishwasher cleaner, rinsing baskets, and Mold Away. So apparently I’m supposed to clean while I cower?
