We keep hearing about some “royal wedding”. I’m guessing someone “important” is getting married over in England or something. Why would I care about that? They’re not my friends… they’re not even in my country.
They better not turn this into a national holiday here in America. You know they tend to do stupid stuff like that.
Almost all of my friends know me as being a tech-savvy kinda guy. Something I never understood is why they express publicly (like on Facebook) that they are having computer problems… and they’re all stressed out about it sometimes… concerned that they might lose data or not have their computer for school or whatever it is… yet they never come to me for help. They KNOW I’m good with that kinda stuff.
Oh well. Their loss, really.
Y’know I had one friend who said their laptop wasn’t working. I offered to take a look at it and they said that would be helpful because they need it for school… but then they never said anything about it since. That was a few weeks ago I think.
Some people use the “computer illiteracy” excuse WAY too much. Not understanding how a computer really works has no relevance to some of the things I’ve witnessed people having “trouble” with. For example, following prompts on the screen.
“Do you want to continue?” followed by a choice of YES or NO.
…
The person might tell me “What do I do now? You know I don’t understand computers!”
This situation will usually continue to play out like this:
Me: “Well, what does it say?”
Them: “Do you want to continue?”
Me: “Okay. Do you?”
Them: “Yes, of course”
Me: “Okaaaay… so what’s the problem?”
Them: “Well do I just click ‘YES’?”
Me: …
People get so stupid on the computer… and it pisses me off. I have friends like that. I even have family like that. I don’t understand it.
I used to work at a school and some of the teachers drove me crazy with this. They could follow instructions on paper just fine. But take those SAME instructions and put them on a computer screen and they suddenly can’t understand a thing. Idiots. I swear…
Normally if I have tried to get along with someone and it just doesn’t work, I just close those doors and cut off contact completely. After all, I can’t be friends with everybody.
Sometimes that person is the spouse of a close friend that I care about and with whom I have a friendship that is important to me. These situations are so frustrating. I’m not sure what to do… I’m in this situation right now.
Not much of a rant, I guess. Perhaps this should have gone in my normal blog. Whatever. I don’t care.
I’ll probably never understand why people can’t use simple punctuation. I mean, come on. A period here, a comma there… it’s NOT THAT HARD… and it makes a WORLD of difference for the person trying to understand you.
Pisses me off. People think I’m just being picky. Yeah well, I’d rather be picky than be ignorant.
Some people post stuff on Facebook and I honestly sit there for minutes trying to decipher what they’re saying because they can’t use a little punctuation to mark the pauses in their sentences. There have been occasion where I’ve never figured out what they were saying at all.
Don’t they realize that they’ll find more people interested in their ads if the spell things right? Particularly, the thing they’re trying to sell or give away. Just saw one for a free “Labador”. That dog could be perfect for someone but that person might be doing a search for “Labrador” and never find the ad.
Idiots, I swear.
OMG people! I don’t expect pro camera work from you, but COME ON. At LEAST don’t post your pictures sideways or upside down! I don’t care if you’re giving away free stuff. Nobody wants to go to the chiropractor after viewing your ad.
Y’know what I hate?
I hate it when I get ready to go somewhere, but first I take the time to put together a CD to listen to in the truck while I’m driving. It’s not as simple as just grabbing one off the shelf. I go through folders on my computer and meticulously pick out songs sometimes. In this case, I even recorded one from YouTube because I couldn’t find it elsewhere. After I finally made the disc, I took off without it.
I really hate that.
Welcome to this.
As you may or may not know, the purpose of this blog is to funnel negative energy into a place away from my typical social circles as to help improve my overall attitude and behavior within them. It’s a place for me to vent my frustrations and irritations about things.
While that’s a great start, I believe, it helps tremendously to know that someone is listening to me. Think of being upset about something and having a friend who will listen to you vent about it. We’ve all been in that kind of situation. It’s good to know someone will listen. That being said, it would help me out a lot if I knew people were actually reading this blog. Otherwise, it’s not much more effective than talking to a wall.
Comment back on posts. It’s a way of letting me know you’re listening. Ever been on the phone with someone and been talking for a few minutes, then pausing and saying “Hello? Hellooo?” only to find out that the call dropped minutes ago? Nobody likes that feeling. Likewise, it’s extra frustrating for me to post blogs and then “wonder” if anybody is reading them.
I invite any and all to read the entries of my new blog here and interact with me by commenting on posts. However, I will warn you that since this IS an outlet for negativity, don’t expect happy content here.
