or; a few minutes before a final . . .
There's a radio station here in Utah that every other Wednesday has a feature called "Things That Must Go". It's a list of things that their listeners send in to gripe about, and they read them on the air. This morning, as I was studying (read: trying in vain to study) for today's final, I listened to their list, and was inspired. So here goes, my list of THINGS THAT MUST GO!!!!!
-College textbook buyback hassles. You spend weeks trying to find a copy of the book before the semester starts that fits your budget, and you finally find one that's only eighty-five bucks and is falling apart (most of chapter 2 is missing). So you go to class, thinking that since the teacher said the book was "required" that you would use it. Guess what? You don't even touch the damn thing all semester! And then, you go to try and sell it back, and they say . . . "Oh, we're sorry, it looks like a new edition of that one is out. I can't take it." Grrrrrrr . . . :@
-People who come in to look for shade trees, and they make me walk them through the whole freaking nursery, telling them the pros and cons of every single tree. And then they do the same thing to five other people. Get a life! You think we don't have jobs to do besides dick around showing you trees?
-That pungent smell of the denizens on the busses . . . ugh.
-Fat girls that wear skimpy clothes. Now, I'm a hot-blooded male, and I like to see a good-looking girl just the same as everyone else, but I'd be willing to sacrifice seeing the beautiful bellybuttons and shoulders if it would mean that I didn't have to see fat people's panzas hanging out of their too-small shirts. It's disgusting, ladies. Please put on some clothes. As I said, I'll sacrifice belly shirts altogether to save me the torture of seeing that . . .
-Old men who buy big ol' diesel trucks and then jack them up so high that it seems to take a crane to get them into their vehicles. You would never - I repeat, NEVER - need a truck that big, and it only seems to make it a hassle for everyone else. Quit trying to "relive the glory days" and make up for your paltry packages!
-People who call to just . . . ahem . . . chat. I'm not a fan of the phone, unless we're unable to get together for distance of monetary reasons (so, in other words, you're the exception, BlueDev) let's just meet up and then we can talk! I hate talking on the phone when you're a mile away.
-Buying things from amazon.com. Now, notice I didn't say through, only from. I love to buy books from other people, with amazon.com as the go-between, but buying from amazon proper is a lesson in patience, when your package arrives about two months too late.
-The computer lab in the business building, mostly because they have the nicest computers so I like to work there, but all that finance mumbo-jumbo that I hear people talking around me make my head swirl. In the foreign language building, we don't even have a computer lab. It must be a prejudice! 
Anyway, there's some of my list. I'm sure that every few weeks I'll write a new list, but for now I think I'm done. So - please, those who read, feel free to share that things that you think must go . . . at least to preserve your sanity.
Because I sure feel better. 