Echo Kinetic

Lots of it

Is it just me, or does the gene pool need a little chlorine?  Sometimes i wonder whether it’s me having a lower tolerance for bullshit, or whether people are getting worse.  Jury is still out on that one.  Here are 4 things which came to mind which give me the shits.

Drivers wearing hats

For some reason, as soon as someone puts on a hat, they lose the ability to drive.  I’m not talking about caps, but floppy old person hats, the kind you see on the back window sill of a 1997 Magna and the driver wearing fit over sunglasses. These people have lost their ability to use the indicator (it’s optional on the weekend right?), the accelerator and the wheel at the same time.  Probably back in 1983.  You, get off the road.

People who force their way onto the tram, when there is clearly no room.

Listen buddy, i’ve been playing sardine since Toorak Rd, no one has got off the tram at your stop, there is absolutely no fucking room alright. You seriously aren’t that fucking skinny, that if a few people inhale you will fit. So you’ve got somewhere to be? You should have left work on time like i did, so i could get on the tram.  This is closely related to people who push through crowds at a stop like “Fed Square” during peak hour, to be first off.  For fuck sake, everyone is getting off, wait your turn.  You know what, most things about trams give me the shits. Period.  They are only better than trains by default.

People who insist on stopping at random points on a thoroughfare.

If i’m walking at a constant pace, behind someone, and for no reason, that person stops, i tend to bump into them.  Or just as bad, people who are going the other way and stop for no reason other to gaze off, (allegedly) deep in thought. You ruin the flow of people walking, get out of the way.  Again, this is similar to people to insist on walking against the flow.  You aren’t that important I’m going to clear a path for you because you decide that it’s quicker to try and dodge around 20 people walking the other direction.  Fuck you and self imposed importantness

Kids who play  hip hop from their crappy phone speakers on buses.

I first had the pleasure of experiencing this for the first time in Perth, while getting a bus out of the City to Highwycomb.  Since then it seems to have infected the youth here in Melbourne, spread by people with low IQ’s and lower life aspirations. Some sick gangstas were chillin and illin, talkin bout blunts, 40’s, bitches, in voices so high i’m fairly sure their balls hadn’t even dropped. These kids wouldn’t have even been 15 yet, and if there wasn’t 4 of you probably all armed with knives, crowbars and syringes, I’ll probably tell you to shut the fuck up.  It’s not so much the music, i’m partial to a bit of NWA, Drapht or Bliss n Eso, but it’s the attitude that these little dip shits were trying to pull off.  You don’t deal crack, this isn’t Brooklyn or the streets of Compton, is fucking the middle of industrial Perth.

/vent