thoughts from the pet food aisle.

one of my jobs is a ‘box boy’, ‘freight stocker’ whatever you want to call it at the local grocery store:::::…

i’m twisting the friskies cans to face forward and putting them on in stacks of five, and in walks a middle aged man, long dirty blonde hair, a goatee and scruff, and shades, looking through the cat food cans, and sit back and listen to his words of wisdom again, with me, if you will:

"gotta find the bastards something to eat…"

"i wouldn’t wanna eat any of this shit…." (no, really? if you did, you’d need to see the doctor’s.)

and then he picks one up, sets it down, "can’t get any seafood, since the gulf’s fucked up."

all i really heard were "bastards, shit, and fucked."

wow the vocabulary of the average american, mind-blasting, isn’t it?

i mean seriously, you’re in a public place, not everyone shares your love of four letter or vulgar words, who knows how many kids are around… it’s nice you’re trying to make small talk with the employee, but bad choice of conversation.

i always hated that ‘blame it on the media’ term, because i’m one of those people who HATE those psychologists who have nothing better to do than to think they have the answers to the world’s problems, and tell us that comics were the reason for juvenile delinquents, Mortal Kombat, and Doom were responsible for violence these days…

if we want to follow that theology, i think prisons are responsible for kidnappers, because prisons hold people against their will. i mean seriously.

but one thing i do blame on the media, is the average person’s capacity or incapacity for vocabulary… because you watch some movies, or at least i do, and it’s like all i hear is fuck like 938028902 times in between easy words for the actor to pronounce, we can’t be throwing sophisticated words…

and it’s like ‘geez, when did we all become sailors?"

just my thoughts.

have a little respect, and gain a little knowledge. there’s a whole dictionary out there of words we’ve not used in awhile. and at least for us english speakers there’s more than four-letter words, and there’s a myriad of words to choose from.