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More bathroom etiquette
Posted on: March 4, 2009
I’ve blogged in the past about washing your hands after using the bathroom. However, there is another piece of bathroom etiquette that has been getting on my nerves as well: cell phones. Seriously, do you really need to be on the phone in the bathroom? Do you really think the person on the other end really wants to hear the noises that happen in there? Ew! There are so many reasons not to do this, yet so many versions of the bathroom phoner. I’ve personally gone into a public restroom and encountered the loud cell phone yeller, which, in my opinion, is worse than encountering them in a restaurant. There’s also the person talking on the phone that makes it seem like they’re talking to you, which is just plain uncomfortable. Not to mention this makes the phone horribly germy, even if you wash your hands. Honestly, if the call is that important, wait to use the restroom. If you get a call while you’re in there, call them back! Please, for the sake of the rest of our sanity!
Some drivers scare me…
Posted on: March 3, 2009
- In: Common Sense | Just My Opinion | Life Lessons | Weather
- 1 Comment
from goclipless.com
I hate winter sometimes, especially when I see people like the ones I saw this morning on the road. Now, we had a big snowstorm here yesterday (see post below). Most people who live through winters in New England know that when it snows, your car gets covered. And when your car gets covered, you need to clean it off to drive safely. In fact, at least in Connecticut, it is the law. Now, I’ll admit, I’ll leave snow on top of my car if it’s just a dusting, maybe half an inch. But, we had over 6 inches yesterday. There is no excuse for people not to clear off their car. I don’t care how late you are, it is in everyone’s best interest that you clean your car. Imagine driving on the highway and having a huge chunk of snow come flying at you with no warning. I can understand if you have a large SUV or truck that you may not be able to get every speck of snow off the top, and that’s fine, as long as you get off what you can. However, it’s almost always the tiny little sedans I see that still have 6 inches of snow on top of the car. If the people with the SUVs can get their cars clean, I’m pretty sure you can clear off your tiny little sedan. Yet without fail, every storm brings these drivers. This morning alone, I saw at least one car with snow all over the top, one car with a full load of snow covering the back windshield, and one that was completely covered except for part of the front windshield. That is just plain dangerous. Please people, please, clean off your cars!
In like a lion…
Posted on: March 2, 2009
- In: Just My Opinion | Life Events | Weather
- 2 Comments
Well, this year is certainly living up to the saying that March comes “in like a lion, out like a lamb.” Just three days ago, on Friday, our weather was this:
Today, the weather is this:
Seriously, the biggest storm of the season in March? Isn’t March supposed to be the month that starts spring? I don’t know about everyone else, but I am personally getting a bit tired of the snow, and would love for the weather to just make up its mind in favor of spring.
What’s up with movies these days?
Posted on: March 1, 2009
I’ve had this conversation more than once with my friends: whatever happened to the original screenplay? Why does it seem like all the movies nowadays are one of four things: a remake, a (usually bad and unneccesary) sequel, based off real events, or based off a book? Take, for example, the movies currently playing at the theater I work at (and please correct me if I am wrong about any of these):
- Confessions of a Shopaholic – based off a book
- Coraline – based off a book
- Fired Up! – original story
- Gran Torino – original story
- He’s Just Not That Into You – based off a book
- Hotel for Dogs – based off a book
- Milk – based off real life events
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop – original story
- Slumdog Millionaire – based off a book
- Taken – original story
- The Pink Panther 2 – sequel
- The Reader – based off a book
- Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail – sequel
Okay, so out of 13 movies currently playing, we have 4 original stories, 2 sequels, 1 based on real life, and 6 based off books. So where are all the original storylines? Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy seeing my favorite books in movie form, or seeing movies based on real events. I even have been known to enjoy sequels occasionally (Pirates 2 & 3 yes, Matrix 2 & 3 no). However, we see all these remakes of older movies (Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 to 2008, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 1971 to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005). Where are the great original movies for our generation? If we don’t start spinning out some good original stories, what are they going to want to remake in 20 years?
Music = magic powers
Posted on: February 25, 2009
- In: College Life | Internet | Just My Opinion | Life Events
- 1 Comment
I’m convinced. Music has got to be the modern day form of magic. How else can you explain the power it has to completely transform a person’s state of mind? It helps that there are so many different types of music: rock, country, hip-hop, pop, oldies, etc.
courtesy of Julien Houbrechts
Take, for example, when my ex-boyfriend broke up with me. This put me in a bit of a conundrum, because many of my favorite songs are love songs, and obviously I didn’t want to listen to those right after going through a break-up. Bring in the awesome breakup songs. I changed my playlist to songs like Daughtry’s “Over You,” Leona Lewis’s “Better in Time,” and Rise Against’s “Blood to Bleed.” These songs helped to see that I wasn’t alone, and allowed me to still listen to songs I enjoyed that I could relate to and weren’t depressing me.
Or, when I was having a terrible day, you know the kind. It seems like every person that comes to the theater is either rude, an idiot, or both, you have a thousand tests the next day, and you can’t seem to get any of your homework right. Enter songs like Linkin Park’s “One Step Closer,” Rise Against’s “Life Less Frightening,” and My Chemical Romance’s “I’m Not Okay (I Promise).” Nice angry, energetic songs to help diffuse your anger/frustration. I know I can’t really stay angry when I’m singing along to songs like these.
So what are some of your favorite songs to listen to when you’re angry/upset/happy/in love/etc?
Were those manners on sale?
Posted on: February 23, 2009
- In: Amusing | Common Sense | Just My Opinion | Life Lessons
- 2 Comments
Okay, I’ve worked with the public for about 5 years now, I know that not everyone is a horrible customer. However, I would love to know where some people purchased their manners, because I think they ought to issue a recall.
from aol.com
Case 1: This one’s a classic. They walk in between movies, get up to the box office, and ignore me when I ask how I can help you. They’re going to stare at the movie board, again ignoring me when I say that there are no movies starting for another hour, as they have all started already. They will then ask me if anything’s starting now, and get angry with me when I repeat that nothing starts for an hour. Because it’s obviously my fault that they didn’t check the movie times beforehand.
Or the other variation on time: They walk in half an hour before/after their movie starts and ask for the tickets without looking at the board. I ask if they wanted those for the one that’s already in progress or the later show. They look at me like I’m stupid and say, “The X:XX show.” I tell them I’m sorry, but we don’t have a show at that time. “The newspaper said you did.” Well, then that changes everything doesn’t it? Let me just go up to the projectionists and tell them they need to stop the movie and play it from the beginning now, because that’s when the newspaper said it was on.
Case 2: They come up to me and chomp away at their gum making gross noises with it while they’re talking to me, and continue chomping with their mouth open so much that I’m amazed that the gum hasn’t fallen out. That’s just rude and disgusting.
Case 3: (this is one of my personal favorites) They come up and buy tickets to a movie that is available in 3D in select theaters, but not this one. Even though there is a notice on the movie board that it is not in 3D, I warn them before ringing them up, because I know that most people don’t bother looking. First they look at me as if I have three heads, then give me some variation of “Are you kidding me?” as if I have just ruined their life. Then come the dirty looks to everyone else in the party, then the angry, “Why not?” I inform them that we unfortunately do not have the correct projectors to show that type of movie. Then comes my favorite: “Who does?” Why do people think that I have every theater in the area memorized? I work at this theater. I know what movies we have playing here. If you would like to know what movies are playing at the other theaters, try calling them. And no, I do not have their phone number.
And yet I just keep smiling through them all…
You would think that, living in New England my entire life, I’d be fairly used to quick weather changes and random winter weather. Yet, somehow, it still manages to take me by surprise sometimes.
Take yesterday for example. Morning weather report: tapering showers/snow showers, becoming nicer as the day goes on. Well, if by nicer they meant downpours and up to 8 inches of snow in some places, then they were correct! Apparently, not even the weathermen had the slightest inkling that bad weather was coming last night.
from komonews.com
Personally, I was walking to my class when I noticed some pretty dark clouds, but the only thought I had was “Haha, if it was the middle of the summer I’d definitely be expecting a big thunderstorm to start right now,” but then dismissed them. Until a few raindrops fell on me, but my thoughts still only reached “I should hurry so I don’t get really rained on.” So I suppose I shouldn’t have been completely surprised when a sudden downpour started hammering on the thin roof of our classroom, scaring half the class. I wasn’t even really bothered by the rain, I’d just received a new waterproof jacket so I just treated it as a good time to test it (it worked ;]).
What I did not expect, nor appreciate, was the pelting snow/ice/rain mixture that was steadily falling at 8 o’clock when I went to take the 15 minute walk to my car and subsequent 45 minute drive home. Had I expected the snow, I’d have been fully prepared with a hat and gloves, and most likely a change of clothes to stay with a friend. However, considering it was completely unexpected, I had the fine pleasure of walking out to my car with wind-driven precipitation pelting my face and finding its way down my sleeves, then driving home with barely any visibility and nontreated roads. There was one slightly good point about the snow being unexpected though: everyone else was just as taken off guard and frazzled, so I didn’t encounter any of the usual “I’m impervious to sliding on snow so I’m going to drive like a maniac” type people.
What makes a good commercial?
Posted on: February 19, 2009
- In: Amusing | Commercials | Just My Opinion
- 1 Comment
Okay, I’ll admit, I’m very picky when it comes to TV commercials. If it seems more or less gross or stupid, I hate it. I know I get a little extreme when it comes to commercials, my friends all laugh when I start commenting on them. However, there are some commercials out there that are truly terrible. Take this recent commercial for Boost Mobile:
Now, who on earth wants to buy a phone that’s advertised by a girl whose armpit hair is flowing back and hitting the guy in the mouth? That is just disgusting, and not at all appealing. Yes, people will be remembering the commercial, but are they going to buy the product?
On the other hand, I do not hate all commercials. Some companies do a good job at trying to be funny without being too stupid or gross. Take this Carmax commercial:
Personally, I absolutely love the possessed car one. It makes me laugh every single time. This is a good example of a commercial that people are likely to remember, but also demonstrates pretty well the point the company wants to make. I believe that people would be more likely to remember this type of commercial positively and possibly use the service.
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