So on Wednesday, I was reading a blog from http://lotta-valdez.xanga.com/704860933/rantish--a-blog-of-rants/ and I remember thinking to myself, "Geez, I hope that never happens to me." But, I think that blog cursed me [sorry, lotta, but it did].

The very next day, I went to Portland to pay my school bill and to drop some books off at Powell's. On the bus ride up, which was over an hour, this lady with crutches came on about ten minutes after I did. Normally, I don't pay much attention to people on the bus, because they generally don't bother me.

All that went to hell when this woman opened her mouth. She immediately started complaining to the bus driver about how all the other bus drivers were treating her like shit. One driver, she insisted, stole $60 from her [I'm not sure how, unless, she gave it to him personally. I've riden the bus MANY times, and not once have I seen the drivers take money. They're not allowed to. Treat passengers like shit, yes, but take money, no]. She was shouting that she was ten feet away from the stop, and the bus driver saw her, but didn't stop.

Now, I understand the anger and resentment that one could feel being on crutches and not being able to get to the stop on time. But this driver explained [and I agree with him 100%] that they are told to pick up people who are only at bus stops, They are on a time constraint, and if they wait even five minutes extra [and can you imagine the amount of time it would have taken her to hobble to the bus, pay the fare, and sit? It took her several minutes more than the average rider to just walk on the bus!], they screw up the schedule for the rest of the day. She complained for another twenty seconds before she headed to a seat, asking the driver to report the others to the people in charge.

Even though the driver, I'm sure, has no idea who she's talking about.

For the next twenty minutes, she went on to complain to this random guy sitting a couple chairs away about how her life is shit and how she's having to play the cards she's been dealt. She then launched into this whole story about how she was in a coma, and she just got out of the hospital.

"Maybe I should have stayed in the hospital today. I should have just stayed in bed. I don't even know why I got out this morning."

Tell me how anyone is comfortable telling that to any stranger. She wasn't even talking to me, and I felt pity for her.

But wait a minute! What the FUCK?! This is exactly what lotta wrote about, and here I am feeling pity for some lady's shit that I shouldn't even be hearing!! What??!!

So I just cranked up my BIG WHISKEY AND THE GROOGROX KING on the good old iPod, hoping to drown her out.

But, nooooo, she feels the need to be even louder than THAT!

After bitching and moaning, she went on to talk about the company she worked for. She was telling everybody that she's had to close down three stores because no one was there to work them for her. She explained that she was looking to hire anyone, even children. The company she works with deals with heavy machinery and packing material.

This is when this Muslim family came on; a father, his wife, and their daughter, who looked to be about five.

The woman turns to the child and is like, "Hey, do you want a job?" The girl just looked at her, like, "Do you want to not talk to me?" The lady repeated the question, even asked the child if she knew English.

This is where I started cracking up. Have you ever seen ignorant-ass people who think that if they speak louder--in English--to someone who they assume doesn't speak it, that maybe they'll understand them? Yep. That was this motherfucker.

The lady offered this child a job working phones for her company, and the girl just nodded. The parents just smile politely, but refused to say anything. And the funny part of the whole exchange was that the parents were talking in English when they were coming on the bus.

So this lady, after harrassing the child, goes on for the rest of trip about how she'll hire anyone, even a two year old. She even told this story about how she approached this strange 6 year old on the street to offer her a job, and the mother got angry at her. She didn't understand why. Apparently, she doesn't understand that the U.S. has Child Labor Laws in place.

I love it when people are just retarded. She was going around the bus handing out flyers to everyone. One woman refused to take one, and the lady looked at the guy she was talking to and said, "I don't know what that was about. Must be something wrong with her."

I can't tell you how happy I was when she got off the bus. The bus was so...tense free....

But it cracked me up how that something I read on Xanga happened to me the next day. I wonder what other prophecies will come from this site.

I've been watching "I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here". I don't want to. My hunger for all things stupid is making me do it. Here is a group of people who have no right to be famous [and by people, I really mean Creepy Flesh-Coloured Beard & Co.] who go out into the Costa Rican jungle and "rough it out". The point is to stay as long as possible, because every person there is representing a charity. And the longer they stay, the more money they can raise for that charity.

                                                
 
As we all know, Spencer and Heidi deserve to burn. In hell or over an open fire can be debated. Preferably both. In the three episodes that I've watched, these two have done nothing but... they've done nothing. Spencer has said that he is the ultimate villain, and he plans to continue to be so. Whenever there's a challenge, both he and good ol' wifey have said that they're in the competition to win, and they don't care about anyone else.

                                                                      

Now, that's all fine and dandy. I have no problem with people out to win. It is a competition. What I have a problem with, is when the group is split into teams, and every challenge is to win something for that said team, and you still say that you don't care whether or not the team wins.

Still confused?

Let me explain a little. There was a challenge where the teams [which are split boys vs. girls] chooses one person to go into this dark room and fish out as many stars as they can. In this room, there are rats, bugs, spiders, snakes, and cat fish crawling/swimming all over and guarding them. Both Heidi and Spencer were chosen, and when they went up to do it, the hosts reminded them that whoever wins will get food [meat, fruits, vegetables] for their team, while the other team gets leftover rice and beans. Instant response: "We don't care if the others eat."

After the challenge, which Spencer [so humbly] won, he was talking to the cameras, and he was explaining that he's in this to win, and you never know what he's going to do. He was even contemplating throwing the fish back into the water so that no one ate "because they're just a bunch of nobodies".

Normally, I wouldn't pay attention to this kind of dickheaded-ness. Really, it's quite stupid. The reason why I am is because they both claim to be Christians. Now, I have no right to be judging their personal lives, but it's hard, when they are so forcefully pushing it into my face. They are continously saying that materials aren't important, money isn't important, but every time they're with the group, they're belittling them for not being famous or rich enough. In fact, there was one moment when Heidi started crying because the label of her shampoo was torn off.

                                                 

Is this the kind of Christianity that I want to be portrayed to the world? Where we talk about loving our neighbours and showing kindness to our enemies, yet are egotistical, rude, arrogant.. everything that Christianity is NOT about? I mean, these two people kept saying how they were going to leave the jungle, even though they're there to raise money for the less fortunate. In fact, in one episode, John Sally asked them what was going to happen to the charities they picked [even though Spencer didn't pick one, since he's only on there for the publicity], and Spidi replied with, "That's why we picked the biggest ones." John Sally [with whom I will offer myself to just for what he said] asked, "So what? They don't need the money?"

                                                                       

This is why Christianity is getting such a bad rep. In fact, I was reading in the news the other day where David Silverman, vice president and national spokesman of American Atheists, said, [and I quote], "Right now, we're seeing atheism on a rise".** This just makes my heart break. What can we do to show people that there really is something to believe in?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090522/pl_politico/22832_1