It's about time I ranted about society.

The more I use Facebook, the more I realize that I am unable to live without it, and the more I notice that every irritating quirk I used to observe from afar now invades my living quarters as I peruse through statuses. There's always one girl who demands that "bitchez be taken off Facebook" and there's always one guy making sure everyone is aware of the fact that he's "chillen wit his girl." Just recently, I read one status which said something about living life without regrets, which brings me to my next point: people with "inner children" should be sterilized. Please don't give me crap about living without regrets and treating every day like it's your last. Everyone has regrets, even if you're too busy being spiritual and reading your horoscope to acknowledge it. For example, I regret losing my virginity to my boyfriend back in high school. It's not like I'm kicking and screaming about it on a daily basis, but if I had the chance to travel back in time and tell my 16-year-old self that sleeping with a drug dealer with long hair and a Nirvana T-shirt is a bad idea, I would most definitely do it. If I had an inner child, I would sit here and go on about how that was God's plan and how I learned from it, but I'm just going to go ahead and assert that at 16 I was a moron who lacked good judgment.

I also cannot stand when people change the channel during commercials. Boy, this really gets my goat. I caught my sister doing this once and I yelled at her. My boyfriend also tried to pull that shenanigans and I put a stop to it real fast. I understand people don't like commercials, but to switch to another program during a commercial break is like taking an extra five miles to drive down the back roads to get somewhere when you could have just sat through the red light. People who switch the channel during commercials never really wind up watching the program they started out watching because they have no idea when the program actually comes back on, and even if they are cognizant, they've probably already become interested in something else, which makes watching television with them a fruitless and frustrating endeavor. You know what else is fruitless and frustrating? Listening to people who haven't decided what they are going to say but decided to talk regardless. I get this a lot at work; I work at a TV station and people are always calling in with half-assed sentences tumbling out of their mouths. For example, one woman once called in to ask when a particular story had aired. She started out by saying that "the man on TV had been talking about it" and when I asked her which man, she could offer no further details. Then I spent another twenty minutes, literally, trying to pluck out whatever scrap of descriptive language I could from her shantytown of a brain, because she did not know what the story was about, when it aired, what show she had seen it in, or any other piece of information which would have helped to solve her problem. Please, people. If you feel the need to call another person, try verbalizing your question and if it sounds incoherent, do not pass go, do not collect $200 and try again. I also clearly remember one woman who called to tell me how hard her life was, and could we do a story on her? After all, she was a single parent who put three girls through college and her baby daddy wasn't in the picture and she didn't have a car and she wrote a letter and could she read me the letter? and she started a group to keep kids out of gangs because Jesus told her to and blah blah blah.

That felt great.