Picketing: a 5-year FLASHBACK blog!

(Originally posted September 24, 2007)

Okay it is important to stand up for what you believe in but I don't think making a sign and holding it up helps.  I never felt differently about something because I saw somebody picketing.  Someone has a sign that says "Joe's Shoe Store is UNFAIR TO WORKERS!" like I'm supposed to stop going there.  I didn't even hear Joe's side of it.  and then every time a celebrity gets arrested there are these people that come out of the woodwork with their signs.  "PUT HIM IN JAIL!" or "LET HIM OUT OF JAIL!" or whatever.  MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

There are a lot of things I am strongly opposed to.  For example, multiple condiments on french fries.  French fries are best with ketchup, but there are some weirdos out there that like mayo on their french fries instead.  WHATEVER.  Live and let live.  But then it goes too far when some people decide to put ketchup AND mayo on their french fries at the SAME TIME!  That is not right.  I have even seen people do it with ketchup and mustard.  MUSTARD!  ON FRENCH FRIES!  It is so terrible.  But I will never go to a high school cafeteria with a big sign that says "DON'T USE TWO THINGS ON FRENCH FRIES!"  I have a life, you know?

Another thing I hate is when people wear the hands-free telephone thing on their ear and walk around in public talking to themselves.  I tried to make a sign with a big red slash across the face of a person who was wearing one of those, but the ear thing was too hard to draw.  It looked like I was just strongly against stupid-looking jerks, which I kind of am but that wasn't the point right then.

I guess that's kind of convoluted because I already said that picketing was a waste of time but the idea behind that sign wasn't to change anyone's opinion.  I just wanted people to feel bad.

So yeah lately I am pretty full of hate I guess.  I keep having to wait in line at the beer store behind some fool that is buying tons of scratch-off tickets, scratching them right there at the counter, and using the $1 or whatever he wins to buy more scratch-off tickets.  You can probably understand how that can get a person all irritated.


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