Bad Driving, Doctor's Orders, and The Bullshit List
If I was a superhero, I'm pretty sure my Kryptonite would be curbs.  I don't know what it is, but I ALWAYS hit curbs when I'm driving.  Like, I could be driving perfectly, and I'll see a curb coming up 30 feet ahead, and something fails in between my eyes, hands, and feet, and I flip a shit.  It's especially bad around highways.  I always feel like I'm going to hit the curb when I'm turning onto/off of 400.  Driving fail.

Also, I've discovered that doctors' offices make me turn into a bumbling idiot.  I had to get physical therapy for my back today, and somehow I had trouble speaking to the receptionists and the parking deck lady.  I was completely inarticulate.  First I got lost in the building.  By the way, how fucking big are doctors' office buildings going to get before we all join hands across America?  I mean, fa real tho.  I was expecting there to be cheese at the end of that maze.

This is how to get to the rehab center where my therapy was: Get out of the car.  Go through one building.  Go across the street, weaving through old people and babies.  Enter building.  Go to top floor.  Go into one side of the center... make sure it's the right one. 
Go behind the waiting room.  Enter the little cove.  Turn left.  You're in the waiting room.  DAVID BOWIE, DID YOU DESIGN THIS BUILDING???

Then I almost hit a wall coming out of the parking deck.  Fack.

In other news, you know how some people have a Shit List?  I have a Bullshit List.  Today's entry?  Subsidized farming.  Yes, it still exists.  The U.S. Government pays tobacco farmers to grow tobacco, corn farmers to grow corn, and certain farmers to NOT grow their crops.  More than anything else, this hurts poor consumers.  One of the main reasons that lower-income people have health issues is because they can't afford healthy food.  Check it out next time you're at the grocery store: what costs more, a pound of fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, or the equivalent amount of a crappy, sodium-rich, overprocessed TV dinner?  It's due directly to these subsidies.  If crops were unregulated, the free market would determine the prices.  Corn, soy, rice, and most fruits and veggies would be fairly cheap, since they grow in most areas of the U.S. and and relatively cheap to produce.  Furthermore, locally-grown crops would be cheaper than imported, since the shipping costs would factor into the actual cost more closely.  It is truly a shanda* that the government still controls what we consume, and takes part in the malnutrition of so many people.



*Yiddish word of the day: Shanda (SHAWN-duh).  Shame.  "Your cousin Moshe cheated on his wife with her sister?  What a shanda.  She was always the pretty one!"