Brinnsanity

You probably haven’t noticed, but I’ve taken the last couple of weeks off to let my brain rest and have some experiences to write about in the future. In the midst of these adventures, I have identified areas at nearly every turn that are causing my mind to explode – figuratively, for now.

What follows, in no particular order, are people, places, or things that make me, Brinn, insane.

1. Everybody running for President. On both sides.

Look, I’m not that smart, and even I know you are both lying about almost everything. I do not believe anyone is going to build a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico – it didn’t work in Berlin and it won’t work on the border with Mexico. Just use the technology available already and patrol the border that we have. Also, I’m pretty sure nobody is going to take my guns away. The only way anybody will get my guns is barrel-first if you try to hurt me or my loved ones. Give me a break. You both tell people what you think we want to hear, but we know more or less that your agenda is going to mirror that of your major financial backers, of which I am not one. Another thing – quit taking tragic events and making them fit your agenda. Stop spinning the news and solve some problems already. I know you don’t care about me. I don’t need you to care about me. I have Jesus and my family for that. Just try to minimize the damage you do during your time in office. I lived through the Jimmy Carter administration, and I will live through yours.

One other thing – can you stop with the name-calling? If that is all you’ve got, you aren’t smart enough to be president. And it sets a bad example for our children.

2. Everybody reporting on everybody running for President.

All of you. You couldn’t tell us the facts without putting your spin on them if your life depended on it. “Mainstream media” or Fox News or CNN or any newspaper – We The American People don’t trust or believe any of you. You are no different from the political candidates; you all have agendas just like they do. You, like those above, freely take news events and tailor them to fit said agendas. This may shock you, but if you just give me unfiltered information, I’m capable of analyzing it myself and forming my own conclusions. My parents taught me to think for myself, and I have passed that on to my own children. I’m tired of you lying to me and everyone else. You are no longer anything but background noise in the day-to-day of my life. You go away and I will watch Andy Griffith Show reruns.

3. People that don’t do what they say they will.

This is for those people that have not already been chastised in #’s 1 & 2 above. Don’t lie to me. Just man up and tell me the truth. Have some credibility, some integrity and self-respect. This isn’t generational; this is a 2016 thing by people in all age groups. Maybe you don’t care about others – that isn’t a rare characteristic in these days of the ’selfie”. Perhaps you have just given up on life due to being walked on by those in Category 1 above. Whatever. Have a backbone and say what you mean and then do what you say.

4. Stupid drivers.

I don’t mean to hurt your feelings, but unless you drive like I do then you probably fall into this category. I say this in honesty to keep me from falling into the category immediately above.

Let me drop some knowledge on you right here as a public service: the left-hand lane is for passing, meaning it is for those drivers amongst us that go faster than the rest. Putting your cruise control on three miles an hour lower than the posted speed limit and staying in the LHL is going to cause you discomfort, courtesy of me, when I run up your tailpipe because you are going too slow!

Also available for your use are the lights that indicate you are turning. Some in the auto industry call them “blinkers”. In the interest of full disclosure, I do not always use my blinkers if I am changing lanes or such. But when I am turning left or right off the road I am on, I use them. Blinkers – live them, love them, use them and you will be a less stupid driver.

5. Other categories that didn’t make the cut because to include them would make this post too long and then nobody would read it:

A. Selfies. This may be a whole post by itself.

B. Any restaurant that prepares a meal for my wife. You always get it wrong.

C. Lawyers. The one working on my mom’s estate charged me $200 for pulling one item off the Internet. I have a feeling there is a connection between this and the reason so many lawyers become politicians.

D. Insurance companies. I’m beginning to feel more sympathetic to The Hammer and The Strongarm.

Hopefully you can identify with one or more of the listings above. If you do then my mission is complete – I have shared my misery with somebody else, and I am thankful for the company. Have a nice day.