Yesterday seemed quite pleasant and ended as such, however, today has started off negatively and I am desperately trying to get over the hurdle. The primary bother at the moment is Greenville, the place I now call home. It is beginning to grate on my nerves. There are positive aspects to the town, it is small and the people are friendly. Everything is beginning to be a pain in the ass! This town, though consisting of environmentally friendly people, does not exhibit those values... and it's really starting to piss me off.
For instance, I walked over to a coffee stand in the library to get some coffee in one of the various mugs that I use and after asking about the price, being referred to a menu on a near-by wall, then waiting in line, and placing my order, I am told hat they are not allowed to put coffee into anything other than their own paper cups. At this point I'm already frustrated and just want to et the coffee and get back to work, but instead I said not thanks and snatch my cup up of the counter and walked out fuming, trying not to slam the heavy library doors.
There is one bike lane in town spanning a whole 3 block distance and then disappears as mysteriously as it reappears. Karza and I almost were run over yesterday when we were traveling on the side walk (because we were traveling on the side of the road with oncoming traffic). The road intersections do not have crosswalk and in the pedestrian crossing areas, the vehicles do not yield to let pedestrians pass.
Basically if you are not driving a gas guzzling vehicle in this town, you are not observed or acknowledged.
Greenville is the epitome of consumerism at it's best and the throw-away society marketing and capitalism has created.
It saddens me to be such a place and apart of such a country. A country where in reviewing a person to serve on a high court they are able to not answer direct questions. Why would they not answer them, because their answers would not be welcomed by those making the decisions to appoint him. How is that not deceitful?
1 comment:
I will not begin to say I understand the frustration you must feel with the small town and the big ways in which they think they are living, not giving a second thought about what it is they are doing. I will however offer this.
Instead of storming off in a plume of smoke and fire, instead turn the words they use against them. They say they can't fill your mug, then find a loophole, use your knowledge to beat them at the silly little mind game they feel they must play, and in doing so perhaps start a small revolution in the small town, and hopefully inevitably keep a birds home safe till the baby bird can fly away home.
Chad
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