Daily Rant 1

Went back to work today for the first time in 5 weeks (don’t ask) – I had over 100 emails waiting for me in my inbox. To say that my mind was blown would be a bit of an understatement! Still, a lot of them were stuff that had nothing to do with me, and hopefully I’ll get back into the swing of things soon enough.

I called AOL the other day, and they agreed to knock £20 a month off my broadband for the next 18 months. There were other options on the market, but I really can’t be bothered to go through the rigmarole of arranging the migration. Most companies show that it can take up to 3 weeks, during which time the connection may be lost or reduced to a dial-up one. Can’t have that I’m afraid; no way that myself and wifey can manage online gaming together at the same time on a dial-up connection!

Sounds like they’ve outsourced their contact handling to India as well. It didn’t instil confidence in me, I must say. I appreciate that incompetence knows no national boundaries, and rubbish customer service can happen anywhere in the world, but seriously...

In other news, a group of foul mouthed kids were shouting at the top of their voices and throwing each other about on the grass verge right next to our car last night. We’d just put the little one to bed, and they were effectively right outside her window. I opened the upstairs blinds to see what the hell was going on, and one of them shouted ‘how man…look.. there’s a git gadjee lookin’ … they started to wander off, but not before the one doing most of the ‘throwing’ had sneered up at me and lobbed the V sign.

I honestly believe that there are occasions where giving someone a good kicking is justified.

Hopefully natural justice will work out ok, and he’ll be knocked over and killed very soon while playing chicken with a car. Or perhaps set upon by a pack of starving wolves. I hope he lives long enough to feel it, however the end comes. And I don’t care how vicious that makes me sound, I’m at the end of my tether with the lot of them.

Without wanting to sound too much like an old fart, ‘kids these days!!!’ … they know all about their rights, and accept none of the responsibilities that go with them. They know no fear; and why should they? Times have changed, and not for the better, and I really worry about the kind of world my little girl is growing up into.

I appreciate that this is a natural concern of parenthood, and my parents probably thought the same, but there’s a consensus with everyone I know that we’ve never experienced the kind of basic disrespect as consistently as this before at any time in our lives.

People just don’t seem to care anymore.

But on a lighter note :