Leelanau Whippersnapper

Today is Sunday and I’m still having issues with the Wordpress update I did. I still don’t have full control over the editing functions on this blog, nor does the spell checker work. I’m a little pissed that the issue has not been resolved, others who run Wordpress blogs are also having problems, at least according to their website. So, stay with me here, eventually I’ll be able to post pictures and videos again, maybe I’ll see if I can revert back to 2.7 on my next day off so I can at least check my writing.

On to the title of today’s blog post. The Problem with Sunday. I’ve always hated Sunday. In my mind it’s the worst day of the week. Growing up it was always the last day of the weekend before having to go back to school. For most of America it’s the last day of a weekend before having to go back to work. For many people it’s the one day of the week where they have to get up, get out of bed, dress up, and go to church to worship their God and then socialize with people they would probably rather not see anyway. That’s how church was for me. It was an obligation, not something I would have freely chosen to do on my own. Some choices in life we don’t get to make, they are made for us. In any case, we learn from them. Right now in my life, Sunday represents the one single day at work when the people who come in shopping are more likely to be jerks and assholes than any other day of the week. You get contractors and builders coming in to buy supplies for their jobs for the week who are flustered by their reality, you get families coming in after Church to shop, many who are just tired and cranky for having to wake up in the morning. You get the out-of-town people who have traveled 300 miles to come to the store who then willingly complain about how far they had to drive when they wanted to buy that thing on sale that we’ve run out of. Really folks, PAY ATTENTION: ON THE LAST DAY OF A SALE, FOR A KNOWN POPULAR ITEM, IT IS UNREASONABLE FOR YOU TO EXPECT IT TO BE IN STOCK especially in a very busy store. Really, we do everything we can to make sure we have what you want to buy but it’s not really our fault that you waited until the last day of the sale to show up to try and buy it without bothering to pick up the phone to call first to see if it was still available. TAKE SOME FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY PEOPLE.

I digress. I had a whole shit ton more that I had written for this post but I decided to delete it. Writing is my outlet for frustration and anger and I suppose it’s a good one. Certianly it’s better than taking it out on random people. The human condition worries me, our singular society of selfish consumption and greed worries me, our inability to see the person standing right in front of us as also human worries me. These conditions and afflictions are the cause of so much hatred and violence in this world that it’s easy to withdraw and just say forget it and not deal with it. When will WE start drawing on our strengths rather than focusing so heavily on our weaknesses? Think about the person standing in front of you the next time something you did goes the wrong way. Empathy, compassion, and understanding will go a LONG way towards finding resolutions to problems we all create.

Now it’s off to bed. Finally I’m back to a normal schedule at work starting this week. I’ve done 3 weeks now of 60 hour weeks, I’m exhausted and frustrated that I spend all my time working. I’ve got about 6 weeks to go before I get my vacation, hopefully it will be a good 6 weeks.

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