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I Need a Car Exorcism

  • March 19, 2010 11:05 am

I used to laugh whenever I saw people getting their cars blessed at Shinto shrines in Japan. Well, I am laughing no longer. Since I bought my Prius two years ago, my eco-conscious move has caused nothing but mishaps:

  1. a log dislodged by a 18 wheeler came hurling at me on the freeway and hit the car
  2. I was backed into in a parking lot by a guy talking on his cell
  3. a construction cone got lodged in the front grill when a truck hit the cone and made it fly into my lane
  4. someone side swiped me from the lane next to mine and drove me up onto the curb.

And now, I find out that I am driving a speeding death trap with sticky pedals.  Read more...

Nannies Are For Changing Diapers!

  • February 9, 2010 8:08 am

Brace yourself. I have some terrible news. You may want to be seated, perhaps even sedated. Here it is. The headline from Saturday’s San Francisco Chronicle:

“Café asks customers to turn off laptops and start talking.”

WTF?!? The nanny state is going private? If I want to go to a café and sing Adam Lambert love songs, I will. If I want to put in some ear buds in and cut myself off from the rest of the world, I will. If I want to ask the stranger next to me where he got that handsome pocket square, I will. But I do not want to be told to do it!

Is it already not bad enough that we have to wear seatbelts, smoke twenty feet away from small children, and read how much sodium is in our Big Mac’s? My god, whatever happened to personal irresponsibility?  Read more...