Yesterday, after humping all my meager possessions up to my second floor apartment (Thank God for Otis Elevator) I got my apartment in what could be described as early college student decor… I went to the local supermarket for some grub as Phil wasn’t around to graciously feed me. Getting what would needed at the minimum to carry me over to early Sunday morn excursion to Wally Weird, so as to avoid most of the dieversity, screaming kids and super tanker land whales to sustain me for the month.
I put my grub on the check out conveyor and flirted with the young thang ringing up my purchase and stepped at the end looking around the store and the young thang asked “paper?” and I replied, “no, plastic is fine…” She looked at me funny and said, ” No, paper but the bag is 5 cents” , 5 cents for a bag, was my startled reply… Yes and no plastic bags unless it is one you bring in… What the fluck am I gonna use to line the fracken waste baskets? Two guys that had followed me in from the parking lot and had commented on my South Dakota tag and my Ornery Bastard on Board bumper sticker Phil had sent me were behind me in the check out line started busting out laughing at my ignorance and naivety to “OREGON COMMIE” way of life… fuck, my thought, what the unholy hell have I got myself into, 5 fucking cents for a paper bag where just a short time and one state away, paper and plastic bags were given away free gratis with your purchase, and you had a choice between paper or plastic. Five cents, not gonna break me, but the adage, “Nickel and Dime me to death” sure came to mind.
I called Phil that night to vent my building rage at the fucking 5 cent extortion I have been exposed to. When I left the Glorious Socialist State of Oregon in 2000, we only had a nickel a can and a dime a bottle “deposit” to contend with. I don’t ever believed in all the time I have talked with Phil over the phone that he truly had a belly laugh like that at my expense and Phil ain’t got a belly! I am sure between the tears of laughter he was obviously was trying to wipe away he explained the state of Oregon, and the state of Washington in their bloated, craven socialist utopia to implement a ‘tax/fee” to the unwashed deplorables for the temerity to insist they cut down trees to allow us proles to carry home our meager food stuffs. Wasn’t the eco-terrorists that exclaimed we need to switch to plastic bags because the trees were disappearing? Now, the plastic was degrading the landscape so we need to switch to trees? I can’t keep up with this shit. Phil went on to say I wasn’t even started yet with all the fees, wait until I register my truck and travel trailer and wait until I get my power bill… and when I learn all the rules our overlords have decreed upon high. What the hell have I heaped upon myself, is it too late to cut my loses and escape back to sanity and a modicum of freedom? Phil said , no, I am now here behind enemy lines for eventual combat. suck it up, embrace the suck was my thought. I called ChuckinBama and he laughed his ass too off at my apparent stupidity…and my rage over five fucking cents.
I was considering selling my travel trailer, but now have decided to keep it and also to pare down my belongings I toted around unused for over a year in case I finally get mad enough, or make a judicious escape from this paradise because I pissed some one off higher on the food chain or shot a karen/ken liberal asswipe and it seems that have multiplied since I lived here previously. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers that I retain my sanity and I not let slip the dogs of sociopathic homicidal beserker.
My Sister In Law sent me this and said she thought of me when she saw it.
I laughed out loud and told her that wasn’t even one pocket.
I’m wasn’t kidding.
Normally there would be a Snap On 4 inch crescent wrench in the mix that I have carried every day for over ten years but I seem to have misplaced it somewhere in the last week.
Other than that, this is my typical every day load.
It’s no wonder my britches are always trying to fall off and the holes in my belt are stretched out.
The normal load of nuts, bolts and screws is a little on the light side too.
This doesn’t count what is in my coat pockets either.
Before anyone asks, yes that is a thread gauge there towards the bottom next to the silver pliers multi tool.
You probably have always had a basic mistrust of banks.
It’s almost something we are born with.
For good reason.
If you know anything about the history of this country then you have all the proof you need as to why it is a good idea to distrust those dirty sonsabitches.
The Federal Reserve in particular.
Also, if you have been paying the slightest bit of attention lately, as if you could miss it, you have seen inflation running amok, your wages have been stagnant and your buying power has fallen off a cliff.
You may or may not have heard about this “Social Score” crap TPTB are absolutely slobbering on themselves they want installed everywhere, here in the U.S. particularly bad.
You have certainly heard about Bitcoin and Digital currencies, even if you are like me and don’t really understand them and trust them even less than the Banks.
That would be right, NO, it’s not any coincidence and it also helps to explain why they have been printing money at light speed for CONgress and The Sniffer In Chief to throw all over the world like confetti.
China, Russia, Brazil and a whole bunch more countries grew tired of getting beat up by the worlds reserve currency as it has been official U.S. policy to use that reserve currency status as a financial and political weapon.
So they formed their own preferred monetary / commodities network called BRICS.
We can now use this Federal Reserve Note/Dollar as a weapon against the very motherfuckers that have been using it against us since the day we were born.