LeFou, I'm afraid I've been thinking...

So I have some things I have been thinking about lately. Mostly just things I have observed, and I would like to put my thoughts out there. As of late I have become a convert into the religion of cleanliness. Those of you who know me know that I am not the cleanest person in the world, but I do like the idea of cleanliness and I look forward to becoming a more tidy and clean person in the future. Today I am going to focus on not wearing shoes in the house. This concept is not exactly new to me, but the importance of it has begun to make itself aware in my mind. As a child there was never any rules about not wearing shoes in the house, and because I was a child I never really thought about it. Unfortunately, now I am thinking about it, and I plan on introducing your mind to the horror that I now face. I would like to ask a question first. What kind of stuff do you walk through while you are wearing shoes? I am going to answer this question for you. You walk through all kinds of crap. From public restrooms, to mud, dog doodie, food, bugs, and the occasional puke. Here is where the problem begins. If you allow shoes in your home, you are allowing all that nastiness to be rubbed and smashed into your carpet and all over your floors. Who likes to lay out on their carpet at home? Personally, that was my favorite place to sprawl out as a child. What was I laying in?! Does this make anyone else sick a little bit? I can't even fathom the amounts of excrement and filth that the carpet contained. Extend that to people that put their shoes all over the furniture. You are basically living in your own personal 3rd world country. Anyway, that is just something for you to think about.

I don't really think that people understand how to properly walk on the sidewalk. Today I got out of class and started walking to my car. While traveling down the sidewalk there was a woman who almost ran into me. I was walking on the right side of the sidewalk, where you are suppose to be, and she couldn't decide which side she was suppose to be walking on. Who knows, maybe she was from Europe. The thing I don't understand is how often this happens. Isn't the rule go right? It is just like driving, stay on the right side of the road, or sidewalk. It kind of makes sense though, there are so many bad drivers. It must stem from the fact that they don't know how to walk either. It really surprises me how often I nearly walk into someone because they don't understand the walk right concept. There is another possibility of why this happens. A lot of people, I have noticed, are pretty much just concerned about themselves. This means that when they are walking they expect that everyone will move out of their way. They hog the entire sidewalk, and make you walk on the grass to avoid collision. These are the people that become truck drivers. Am I wrong? There are so many times I have almost died because of a truck driver that assumes that it can just switch lanes going up a hill at 35 mph on the freeway. It is like the driver just waits until I am about to pass, and then switches lanes right at the last second. It must be a game to them. They report back the number of cars run off the road to their superior, and the one with the highest number gets a paid vacation to Kentucky, a coupon for all you can eat "meat and potaters", and a hair cut at Melvin's Mullets. At least that is my theory.

The final thing that I would like to talk about today is work. I am not a fan of working. I wear a shirt that says "Hard Work Is For People Without Talent" and I am a firm believer of that shirt. It is for this reason that my goal is to land a job where I do nothing, or next to nothing. My favorite thing in the world is making money for doing nothing, and I am dang good at it. This is why I don't understand people that have to keep busy while they are at work. If they have nothing to do, they will create projects. For example I worked at a gas station once, and we had a list of stuff that we had to do before we closed each day. So I would get my list done as fast as I could, and then pray that there wouldn't be very many customers that day. That way I could just sit around and do nothing then get paid $9/hour for it. There were a couple of crazy people there that when they were done doing the stuff on the list they would go around and do random stuff that didn't necessarily need to be done. On good days these people would start doing my jobs, which I was fine with. I didn't understand their need to do more than their share, but there was no way I was gonna say no to someone making money for me. I guess the main point I am getting at here is why do some people not like to get paid to do nothing? Is it a moral dilemma for them to get money for nothing? Do they lack the ability to sit still and relax? Do they hate themselves? It makes no sense to me. I guess it is like people who run for fun. I don't think I will ever understand that. I can understand playing some kind of sport that you have to run to accomplish the tasks in the game, but just running? While I am on the subject of sports I personally believe that the fact that people get paid millions of dollars to throw around some kind of ball is ridiculous. How can we live in a world where a brainless monkey that throws a ball around and cheats on his wife makes more than an educator? I have an idea. Let's take the excess money that all the sports bring in, that the players use to buy hookers and cars, and do something useful with it. Maybe use it to improve public education, give it to college students that need help with their tuition, or even clothe and feed the homeless. Just out of curiosity I went and found the total of the 2011 Green Bay Packers salary it is $63,723,500. The lowest paid person on their team, the person that probably sits on the side lines every game, made $375,000 this year, the top paid player made nearly 8 million. How does that even work? Does that make any sense? There are people doing actual important things, and they are getting paid hardly anything to do it. Do you know why immigration is so bad, and why it is immigrants taking the hard labor jobs that pay horribly? It is because the americans that would normally be doing those jobs are getting paid millions of dollars to throw around a freaking ball! Sure athletes are entertaining, but so is a dog chasing it's tail, or a cat trying to catch a laser that is pointed at the wall. I hope I have made my point.