Sally does not use the mute button on the TV remote control. She uses a button no more than 1cm away to turn the volume all the way down. Presspresspresspresspresspresspresspress. Or Press. Once. Does not matter how many times I tell her that this pisses me off she will or cannot change her habit. When the TV is muted a light or icon tells me it is muted; when the volume is turned all the way down my eyes and ears tell me it is broke. Little things annoy; she has the bog seat up (rare), I have the volume down (common).
I don't like freebie handouts. The free newspapers and magazines and novelties and samples handed out in their thousands each morning to office workers. Didn't like them in London and don't like them in Sydney. I despair for the future of life on this planet - the only one we have - when I consider the volume of stuff that goes into producing this crap. Such a waste of resources. Just about all of this free stuff is simply thrown away. Most despair I reserve for the people who, on auto-pilot, take the stuff. If you don't need or want it - and lets face it, you don't - don't take it. So someone is limply waving it in front of you; big deal. You do not need to take it. Maybe it's taken out of pity for the presumably minimum-wage distributor-person. Don't waste your pity; if you did not take this stuff they could go and get another - better - job. The producers of this crap are evil and you are stupid and the distributor is exploited. You have choices. The news in free papers is no better than that in 'proper' papers. It is often worse. If you want to read a newspaper buy one. If you want to read the news do it online at work. If you want something to read on your commute you should buy a book. Get one from a secondhand bookstore that exchanges. That way, when finished, you take it back and get another one. You can buy books full of crosswords and do not need to take a whol newspaper just for the crossword. THINK!
...and as if to prove my point, a colleague just asked if I took one of the freebie cans of a new energy drink - Mother - from folks handing it out this morning. No, I said, I did not take a can and I gently explained why. He went on to tell me he'd tipped half away as it tasted awful. This guy is a middle aged IT bloke. Why the fuck does he need or want an energy drink? If you have never purchased Red Bull you probably neither want nor need Mother. You took it because it's free and you weren't thinking. THINK!
I look forward to geting back on my bike next week.
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