Subes for life!

/sigh it was one of those years … a confederacy of dunces.

Goodbye 2023.

Spending time on the road, one sees a lot of weird sh1te, and I’ve compiled a list of the lowlights.

In no particular order, don’t be one of these peoples:

• Left lane driver
• Cell phone talker in public
• Cell phone walker and talker*
• Cell phone content consumer without earbuds**
• Loud music in public spaces guy
• Driver with headlights on for extended periods while parked***
• Garbage strewer
• Kway****
• Oversharer
• Inattentive clerk*****
• Loud talker******
• Influencer, brand ambassador, blogger

There now, the world is already a much better place.

New year, new you.

Welcome to 2024.

*You are either not walking well, or not talking well, and you are most definitely annoying everyone trying to navigate around you.

**Like, c’mon, just don’t show up at a coffee house or restaurant and watch the sports-ball matchup tournament or whatever viral nonsense you absolutely must see right then and there … unless you are using earphones. Deal? Deal!

***Park your rig and turn off your headlights. It’s literally that simple. If you do it any other way, you are for sure blinding someone nearby, and you are annoying. In 2024, try to be less annoying.

****I’m torn on this one, ’cause two of my favorite homeless pals in SC are the most lovely women you’d ever want to meet. So warm and friendly, and so happy to share a wave or a smile or a nod of recognition with a comrade. Crazy AF, for sure, and probably conversing with several other voices in their head whilst talking with you, but with good hearts. The wackos drastically outweigh the scale in the other (wrong) direction, though. Thinking of you, murdery guy at the Flying J; thinking of you, the music lyrics pervert guy who hangs out near the high school with your camera just to trigger people; thinking of you, uber-prepper with your 8″ Bowie knife and six-shooter close at hand and way too willing to show them off to total strangers who aren’t really interested in conversing with you. ….Too many to list here. If you gonna be kway, keep it to yourself.

*****One of us needs to be paying attention to the price of the item(s) and the change needed in return, and it’s not me. Your machine is telling you the exact amount you need to count out. It’s not difficult.

******Camped between a line of Europeans in one direction, and a line of ‘Mericans in the other direction, take a wild guess which group was quiet and respectful and barely audible, and which was loud and obnoxious and chattering about nonsense incessantly. Take a wild guess….