back of the class

So while at the power plant in the control room, i overheard a conversation between two operators. (actually it was more of a rant from one operator to the other). The one operator was saying how his grandparents told him that this is what it was heading to back then and that it still holds true today -- the government won't be happy until there are two classes of people -- the really rich and the really poor. By raising the gas prices and stuff and by letting all the immigrants in from Cuba and Puerto Rico, who will do the same job that the Americans are doing right now for half the price, the rich will keep getting richer, and the poor will get poorer. And until the good ol Americans, the ones who still have hair on their nuts, stand up and get their guns and start to bury those motherfuckers, we're going to lose all our jobs to those goddamn foreigners. At one point he also said "that's fucking bullshit, motherfucker" which i thought was amazing.

Now throughout all this as i was sitting right next to the guy saying this, I just thought to myself "good thing i have a salary job and am middle class. If this ever happens, i'm sure i'll be bumped up to the upper class and not the lower class, therefore i'm safe and don't have to care about this."

the other thought i had was: god, the poor are so annoying. whine bitch moan. waaaaah. seriously. sheeesh.

hotel rwanda

so i was at the front desk of the Holiday Inn i am staying at because i needed a plastic fork for my dinner. Upon arrival at the desk, I stumbled across a scene that makes me glad i never had a job in which i had to deal with customer complaints. So apparently this guy had money on his nightstand, which was gone when he got back to his room. Apparently, the cleaning people took the money. It's reasons like this why once i first get into my room after checking in, i immediately place the "do not disturb" sign on my door handle for the remainder of the stay so that i'm the only one entering my room evar. So the lady behind the counter was explaining how the cleaning staff sometimes receive tips from the guests if they do such a good job, so the cleaning lady probably thought it was a tip. i personally think that to offer this excuse is kinda bad on the hotel's part. There is no reason for the cleaning staff to take anything from your room except used towels, dirty sheets and trash. If something else is for them to take, there would be a note on it saying "for cleaning staff." But anyway, this is where it gets fun. Apparently, the money that was taken, was just quarters. But these weren't just any normal quarters. they were specific state quarters that this guy was collecting. so in other words, they were just normal quarters. And this guy was legitimately upset about these quarters being missing. He had laid them out on his nightstand in some kind of order and everything. So the hotel lady was asking him what state quarters they were so that they could try to reimburse him. and he was naming all these states - california, texas, new york.... and i was standing there thinking, "New York? that state quarter came out so long ago. you could get that anywhere. If he doesn't have that one by now, he must not be a very good collector." He would die if he ever saw my quarter collection book. I'm sooo cool!

my new favorite person

A 31-year-old Greek beheaded his girlfriend and carried her head around the popular tourist island of Santorini before he was arrested, police said on Sunday.

The man, who police said had psychological problems, injured a police officer and two women while trying to escape arrest after killing the 25-year-old teacher in Greece's most picturesque island.

"He was walking around, carrying her head and telling the astonished villagers not to stop him," a police official told Reuters. "They knew he had psychological problems ... but they didn't expect he would reach this point."

The man knifed a policeman who tried to arrest him, stole a police car and crashed into a motorcycle injuring two women, before police ended his escape by ramming the car.

marry me!

i believe now

So I read this article about how A.C. Slater is now going to be the sole host of the Hollywood variety program called "Extra." One of the show's former co-hosts, Mark McGrath, was leaving the show to get back together with the band Sugar Ray to put out a new album. I immediately said to myself, "there is a God!" and then all of a sudden, all around the world, statues were crumbling for me, and i was like, you know, i just want to fly....