Stupid me !!

I was in a rush last month and decided to eat at a McDonalds on the way. I don't like McDonalds but find myself in there once every month or so anyway. I always leave McDonalds feeling bewildered. Why did I come here? When you walk in, there are five or six counters where you could get on line. The only problem is you don't know if they are all lines.  That creates this time of milling about to try and find the right line where someone is actually working behind the counter. Usually I am so hungry when I go into a McDonalds I would eat anything, and this is the reason I am here to begin with. This answers my earlier question "Why did I come here?" So after standing on a line, that's not really a line, for a few minutes I now see my mistake and jump in line behind someone who I was in front of a minute ago. "Okay let me just get through this"  As I reach the counter and make eye contact with the counter person she turns and walks away. She finally retuns to take my order. I always wonder why they do this? As I start giving my order she turns her head and continues a conversation with her fellow worker at the next counter. It's hard for me to keep ordering when I don't know if she is listening or not. A lull in her conversation forces her to turn her head toward me , make eye contact and with a little sarcasim says "Well". I say "Oh! okay" and give my order again. As she starts putting my order onto a tray I remind her that this order was to go. She probally never heard that. And even now she continues to put my order on a tray, so I just go along with it. I give her the money and ask her for a bag.

                                                            She looks at me a little funny and says" Why do want a bag?" "I wan't to take this to go" I reply. She shakes her head grabs the tray and goes in the back. You may ask yourself at this point why Ididn't use the drive thru. That is a another very good story. She returns with my order neatly packed in the bag and without eye contact or any words of any kind she slides my order to me. Like my grandmother shushing me away when I did something wrong. Only thing is I just got shushed by some snappy teenager half my age. "Great" I say to myself. Now a little behind I start to drive and eat at the same time. I get down the road and realize she forgot the fries. I shake my head and continue on my way debating if she did it purposely. It doesn't really matter at this point, for it would be useless to complain to the manager  and have him hand me a free fries, that I shouldn't be eating anyway. Where else can you serve mediocre food, coupled with poor service, and incomplete orders, and make millions of dollars. The truth is that my expectations of McDonalds is so low that I am almost willing to accecpt any abuse, and here's the kicker. I was reminded of all this because I am writing this blog from a McDondalds right now. Stupid me!!

280 % interest a month and growing.

I am trying to stay away from the tax thing but I was staring at a dollar bill about three weeks ago and it got me thinking. I got my self a marker and wrote my cell number on the bill with a little note. "please call me when you get this bill I wan't to keep track of it."With that done I went to the bagel store and bought some coffee. I am not a math major or anything but I guess I paid around  8% tax on that particular dollar or 8 cents. Well that dollar bill has changed hands at least thirty five times in three weeks and if my math is correct that's around $2.80. That means one dollar has almost tripled in tax money in a mere three weeks. The little rascal is now in North Carolina doing it's thing, generating tax revenue. Am I the only one who wonders where all this money is. If you find my dollar please continue to call me I want to see how much tax money my one dollar bill will amass in one year. I will let you all know from time to time where my dollar is and how much money it's made. Brutus

The trouble with our leaders.

Our government is so strapped for cash that our politicians and leaders spend all their time these days trying to find new and creative ways to get our money. They don't really care that we are as strapped as they are. It's pretty funny that it always comes back to some kind of tax. Then when they come up with some new idea that they believe is truly genius they can't wait to announce the new tax to the public as if it will save the day. The mayor today announces the commuter tax that will only affect the commuter. Who does he think the commuter is for gods sake. The commuter pays all kinds of extra taxes already. "Now we will be taxing alcohol." I thought I was already paying taxes on alcohol. "We will tax taxi cabs." Aren't there taxes already included in taxi charges. "We will tax gasoline." Oh how original. They should have a contest to see who can come up with the most obscure tax that no one would object to. "Lets tax people with body odor and double it if its on a subway". I have to leave out smoking here because the smokers are supporting the whole Congress with the taxes they pay. "So lets tax any one wearing a turban." A turban reminds all of us about 911 so I think it would be a very good tax. Not much opposition." Lets tax the buses." This way you wouldn't have to raise the fare. The bus riding public could pay their fare and then you could explain to them that the additional money is a tax and not a fare increase. Obesity is a hot topic these days." Come on! lets put a tax on it." The heavier you are the more the tax. Don't Laugh ! Brutus

The Sheriff's got my horse.

Back in the old west your horse was your life line much the way your car is today. That's why hanging was the punishment for horse thief's. So when my car was not where I left it the other day I felt like I could hang someone. After a few days I found out the City Of New York had stolen my car. I was flabbergasted needless to say. A day or so later I got a registered letter saying the reason they have stolen my car is that I owe them for a ticket in the amount of $ 60
And you have a ticket on another car for $ 200. Then the tickets became $480. Why not just make them $10,000. Well I like many other Americans lost my job in September and haven't really worked since. I have done side jobs here and there to keep up with my bills until now. The City demands $ 900 dollars from me immediately and $100 dollars a day for ten days. at that point they will sell my car and I will owe them the rest. I say why stop there. Why not just take the car for yourself or one of your siblings or cronies and call it even. I ask you is this America we live in or Germany 1940. Since when in America can you legally steal someones property, hold it for ransom at any cost you want and then sell it for whatever cost you decide. I guess if this was the old west I could just call the Sheriff. Oops the sheriff's got my horse.

What are they really doing

Where is everyone?

I am so frustrated with things that I thought I would try and frustrate all of you. I am wondering what all these politicans are actually doing for a living and how we could lay them off or let them go if we choose to. You know when things get tight they lay off fireman,cops and, garbage men. I think if we had our choice we could lay of the government. I prefer to have no new laws for a while rather than the garbage building up in the streets. I think the laws we have could last for a year or two don't you? We all know that the cost of our government is bankrupting us. It's like a bad loan you took out at twenty percent intrest and can't get rid of. The only difference is it will never be paid off. From the raises they give themselves to the eighty to one hundred percent pensions, this will be our undoing. Don't even get me started about there life long medical coverage. Start with the Senetors then the Congress. Give them the pink slips. When things pick up maybe we will give you a call back. How can some person making ten times your salary with no chance of being fired properly represent you. How can you and I get together and make some new laws. The people laws. Yea that's the ticket. We lay them off, then we get in there and, make a law that says you can't make more money than the people you represent. Better yet! if we can't get them out then lets bring our troops home and send in the public servents. Send the politicians, congress and senetors to Afganistan. Hopefully they would not come back!