People say I am too negative. They're probably right. But it's so much more interesting to complain and say what's wrong
with stuff, than to look on the bright side and say how much you love stuff. Like I could start a page here saying how much
I love the Ramones and how awesome they are, but it would wind up being "I really like the Ramones, they are so awesome.....I
really really really like the Ramones....." which not only is boring to read, but the more I write it the more I start to
think. "You know, they really have no musical talent....and they are all really ugly...." and then by the time I'm done, they
suck.
It's just natural. Maybe natural to me, I don't know. Here I will try to say something positive:
I think it was really smart of Sharon to withdraw from the West Bank.
See? That's so boring.
So, I go to work. I'll be positive and say that I really like my job, it's a nice company, I like the owners and all
the guys I work with. And mostly I get to work by myself at my own pace, with no one breathing down my neck. It's nice.
But one day last week I worked on a project with another dude. He was a nice guy, but he had this one little quirk, and
that is that he likes country music. A lot. And I can listen to any country music, and really like it too, but only for about
30 minutes. After that, it starts to get on my nerves, and I want to reach into the radio and say "Dude! She broke up with
you, get over it!"
And worse, there are DJs. Morning DJs, on country radio. They talk about country music, who's marrying who and who's
breaking up, NASCAR, hunting, and Jeff Foxworthy. None of that interests me. Country people get mad when you make assumptions
about them, like when you assume that they all drive trucks, and they all cheat on their spouses, and they marry people that
they've known since the third grade.
They say, "You think we're all like that?"
And I say, "I don't know if you're all like that, but all your songs are about that." Maybe it's not all country people,
just all country song-writers.I just hate country music.
But I sit there and I do my job and I don't say anything about how inane and stupid it all is, even when the truck commercial
came on. Apparently you can get $3000 cash back on a Ford F-150, and this guy I'm working with tells me that it's only
on the Ford F-150 but what they don't tell you in that commercial is that you get nothing back when you buy the F-250.
Apparently this is a big deal, or something.
But I'm sitting there thinking, I hope to God I never know this much about trucks, or what they cost. And I hope to God
that if I ever do, that I don't care. And if I do care, I hope to God that I never talk about it for 20 minutes oblivious
to how boring it is to everyone else.
Like I go to this dinner party and all they're talking about is all the cruises they went on, and scuba diving off the
coast of Australia, and then one chick talks for fifteen minutes about how her 2-year-old crawls up the stairs. I should mention
that all the women at this party are single, and it's quickly becoming apparent why.
(Note to feminists: No, it's not because they're all independent, strong-minded women who make all their own rules
and won't be defined by what society expects of them. It's because they're all boring. And they all talk in these nasally
tones that's almost like a lecture even when they're just telling you directions to the nearest grocery store)
Is it just me? Am I really this negative? Or is it just something that happens when you reach 40? I've been bored before,
but now it's like I'm surrounded by boring.
