Ray Ray!

J. Lovelace

I was going through some files on old disks and came across something that I had to post on here. This is Jonathan's favorite basketball player of all time. It's Ray Ray!

Just a few irritations on this rainy Sunday

So I noticed today, like everyday things were just sort of bugging me. Not to the point that I felt like saying or doing anything about it. Nope I was just simply observing the everyday irritations of the world and people in general.

I’m sitting in church today and there were about three things I just could not stop thinking about. This is usually the norm for me too. I find it hard to concentrate at church, but I’m not writing about that today. No, today it started with the smell of bad breath. This is nothing new either. I think just about every Sunday someone I’m sitting around has terrible breath. I mean laugh about it, but it’s true. And this is that, dried up haven’t had a drink of water in your mouth for like hours, kind of bad breath. Not to mention the fact that it sits around you and just hovers like a cloud of fog on Afton Mountain. Why in world can’t people just pick up the toothbrush before they come to church? Heck mouthwash at least. I mean really is it that hard?

My next irritation had to do with smell again. What is the deal with people coming to church smelling like that plate of eggs and bacon they just finished shoving down their mouth? I mean what are these people doing, putting on their entire outfit, to include their coat mind you, and then cooking up their big old Sunday morning breakfast? It’s as bad as those people that burn firewood in their house and then go out in public and think no one can smell that! Seriously though, can people just cook breakfast either before they shower or at least leave your coat off while you’re fixing it? Or do like about 90% of society and cover it up with cologne or something.

Thirdly, and this one hits on my hatred for self-centered people. If you’re sitting in a pew and you have your coat and purse sitting beside of you taking up the amount of space that one or two more people could be sitting in, MOVE IT!! I mean really people we have men, women and children half the time looking for a seat but can’t because those self-centered idiots have to have their precious coats and purses and whatever else they can carry with them, nestled up beside of them on the pew. Oh but it gets better, if you attempt to ask them to move down or scoot their stuff down to make room, it’s like they look at you with this, “Did you just ask me to donate you my kidney?” face. Yeah idiot I did, move your crap so I/we can sit down.

Finally I think I know why I’m in just one of those irritable modes today. It’s only been raining for about three or four days straight. But hey “We need the rain”. This rolls right into my last irritating event for the day. So I’m trying to make my way through a parking lot and of course it’s raining and it’s nasty out. As I try to make my way through these various parking lots and across roads I am once again driven to almost insanity at the unselfishness of the people around me. Why is it when people are in their nice warm and dry cars, do they insist on not yielding to pedestrians who are visible wet, cold and desperately looking for the quickest routes to get inside or at least under cover to avoid rain? Do you really have to be somewhere so important and in such a short period of time that you can’t wait two extra seconds for some sorry sap to cross in front of you so they can enjoy that same dry feeling your getting from being inside your car? Seriously why are people so selfish?

Enough with the Chocolate already, I get it!

So just about everyone in the world with the exception of maybe some person in like Indochina and me prefers chocolate over vanilla. Let me make it clear that I do like chocolate so no I’m not chocolate hating here. I’m just so tired of chocolate dominating the entire flavor market for everything.

Has anyone ever tried vanilla milk? I absolutely love that stuff, when you can find it. And when you do find it you have to stock up because it’s either only out for a limited time or going out of stock to never be replenished. Why is that?

Oh here’s one. Why do I have to go to Dairy Queen and look up at the ice cream and blizzard flavors and see about 98% of all flavors in some form or fashion having chocolate in them? Wait let me make a small correction, you will find “For a limited time” Cotton Candy Blizzards or the pumpkin or candy apple flavor. Forgive me if I’m leaving something out, I don’t think I’ve been to a DQ in over a year. Partly because I’m not really a fast food guy and mostly because I’m so sick of only having forty- thousand blizzard flavors all of which have some form of chocolate in them. What is this obsession with chocolate in our country?

Applebee’s I have to give you a little bit of love here. Two words, The Blondie! You want to talk about a dessert? That blows away any chocolate dessert I’ve seen on that menu. So for now I say thank you Applebee’s and do say for now because it’s only a matter of time before it will be taken out completely and probably replaced by some German chocolate cake or who knows what.

Notice I said 98% earlier. That 2% is not all reserved for my vanilla brethren either. Butterscotch usually makes an appearance every now and then. I have to give it to butterscotch though it’s not bad but I usually only eat it in protest to chocolate and well of course if vanilla isn’t available.

So here’s my thing. Chocolate, alright I got it. I’m only asking that instead of a 98% chocolate domination in this world that we just up the distribution to like say 20% or maybe even as high as 30% vanilla/non-chocolate flavors. Vanilla is to me what chocolate is to the rest of the world. Someone out there throw me a freaking bone here!