But what is "awesome?"
This year I made it a point to go to concerts and to get out and enjoy things while I can. The Tool concert was a problem for me because of the drunken clown behind me yelling "let's go!" and blowing pot smoke on me all night. I believe that I posted about it here.
Roger Waters was just O.K.
Cubs game. A guy behind me was yelling about how Jason Hayward was only playing because "they can run but they're not smart enough to be great." The usher was laughing it up with him. The African American family sitting next to me, and I didn't appreciate it.
Went to see "Devotion" with my Dad. I don't want to spoil the movie but there were racial slurs/insults etc. and you would have thought that we were seeing a comedy the way that half of the theater was yukking it up.
The last funeral that I went to was my childhood best friend's father a couple of years ago. We were only allowed in to the funeral home a few at a time because of restrictions. At his own father's funeral my friend started talking about how he wished that they would just open everything back up because COVID was only killing "________." I haven't seen anybody from that group since.
My other group of friends hosted an early Christmas party last week. One of them got drunk and started talking about how a certain group of people don't work and get everything free from the government and she has nothing but works so hard. Her husband hasn't worked since COVID started, their kids are on Medicaid or whatever, and they get assistance with their heavily autistic son. But it's that other group that gets everything.
At stores, people act like they're competing for the products on the shelves. At Costco I saw a five and a half foot tall cat tower and I took a picture for my sister. A woman saw me do that and she hugged it and started yelling for help like she was being assaulted. It was over the top. I walked away and went back after somebody put it on a cart for her and I went to get the other one and she did it again. If she wanted both why didn't she have the employee put both on the cart in the first place?
Every day my boss tells me who he thinks needs to be "shot." His gem from the other day was telling me, after the earthquake in California this week, that he hopes that the whole state would slide into the ocean.
Everywhere that I go, that has people, is full of self-centered, rude, obnoxious loudmouths. I'm not convinced that there's a place with enough decent people to make the jerks seem to be outliers. I know that there isn't such a place within driving distance to my job.