Sharing complaints

Life is not always a box of cherries. We have our ups and downs. We have our good days and our bad days. If we didn’t have our bad days we would not recognize our good days.

Once in a while someone will ask you how are you doing, but I don’t really believe they want to know, so most people will just say, fine or OK.

The first thing that we really need to be thankful for is that we were bom here in the United States of America. We can get in an automobile and go anywhere we want to go on the spur of the moment. We don’t even have to stop to show our ID to cross into another state. We can go from Oregon to Florida or California to Maine, if we want to.

We can be anything we want to be if we put the effort into it. The only thing that is standing in our way is our own limitations. We can believe anything we want to as far as beliefs are concerned. A person can believe in a god or gods. They can even decide not to believe in any god.

I said this so that I would not sound as though I was a complainer. However, I was recently thinking about all the things that annoy me and I decided to make a list. I had no clue it was going to be so long.

Trash along the highways is a pet peeve of mine. I periodically get out and pick up trash along the side of the road because I am sure that some of that trash may have flown out of my truck bed.

Waiting in line at a bank or store is a pet peeve of mine. I would not mind waiting if there are four lines and there are four people cashers (sic) working the registers but that is hardly ever the case. I mean it is a matter of perception.

Cops setting up speed traps is another pet peeve of mine. They are just there to collect more revenue for the city. If there were fewer cops on the payroll, the city would not need more money. The safety is a secondary side effect of the speed trap.

Another pet peeve of mine is doctors and hospitals not having a price list. A person going to these places don’t (sic) have a clue what they are going to charge you.

It is also a pet peeve of mine that the drive up restaurants rip you off by putting too much ice in the drinks. What are we buying anyway? We are buying the liquid, not the ice.

Speaking of standing in line. I consider it rude for the cashers to start checking the second person in line out before they are finished with first person in line.

Tune in next week for the rest of the list. They only allow 500 words.

BOYD B. MCNIEL

Pea Ridge, Ark.