Some things just plain don't make sense.

               Have you ever noticed something that you found a very obvoius flaw in? Something that makes you wonder if the people in charge had rocks in their heads? Something that made you say to yourself: "If I ran things, this would go SO much better?" Well, if you said no to all these questions, you're either very easily satisfied, or just dilusional. For the rest of us, we assume that even though things aren't perfect, they're as good as they can be. However, it's hard not to get riled up when you notice glaringly obvious flaws in the system that untrained folk like me can tell. Here is a list of things that tend to irritate me, even though there's nothing I can do about it. If you agree or disagree, feel free to comment. It'll be the first ones I've gotten on a blog.

             First of all, what is the deal with getting a driver's license? I mean, when you get a dog or cat license, you don't have to study a breeder's guide, or make an animal pass a written test. When you go to get a marriage license, you don't need to practice it for 100 hours with a married person. But when you apply for a driver's license, you've got to stand in a line for, like a half an hour before you even wait your turn. Then, you've got to pay more than the price of most restaurant dinners, pass a random 36 questions multiple-choice test on driving with no more than 6 questions wrong. And THEN you've got to practice and study to pass a behind-the-wheel driver's test! I mean, it's not like I'm going to drive all the way down to Washington and run over the president. I'm not going to drive over the border with a ton of heavy explosives, and their stupid tests couldn't determine whether I did that anyway.

             Anyway, I'm not a moron. I know that cars can be dangerous, and I know they can kill people if used improperly. I get that. But guns have so much higher a potential to kill or injure a person (Especially since they can be concealed), and you can get one just by filling out some stupid application and not having killed someone in the past. Besides that, you can use a lot of things that you don't need licenses for that can kill people. Things like knives. Have you ever heard of knife licences? Like for chefs or something? Or how about saw licenses? Ever seen one of those? You can kill someone with a chair, or by smashing a television over their head. Does that mean you need a ton of training and a license to use THEM?

           And I'm not trying to get a driver's license to kill someone, smuggle something, steal, vandalize, or anything bad like that. All I want is to be able to drive my friends and family members around if they need it, like in case of emergency! But noooo. I didn't memorize the manuel enough to pass the written test for the learner's permit. I know that driving is a privilage not a right, but it shouldn't require so much work to earn that privilage.

         The second thing that doesn't make sense is bosses. Some bosses are nice enough, but then there's the kind that gets a bloated salary over a hundred times your own, let your coworkers slack off (As long as they don't get up in his/her face), sit behind a desk barking orders while you do hard stuff like disassemble dozens of machines, design innovative new products, write brilliant scripts, or deal with some of the most thick-headed coworkers you've ever seen. All while the highly paid supervisor directs you to do something that may or may not help the company. If that weren't stupid enough, you've got to pretend that the boss is always right, and speak softly to them even while the other workers get away with gross incompetence, and even when the boss can demean you, talk down to you, yell or swear at you and get away with it as long as he doesn't physically injure you or punish you solely on your religion or skin color. Well, that's all well and good, but that indicates that if you don't have a huge paycheck or a high title, you're not entitled to feelings and you should be treated like cattle or something. After all, doesn't it make you feel like a sell-out to treat someone who treats you like garbage as if he were an old friend of yours?

              Another thing that doesn't make sense is political correctness. I mean, women don't want to be put down or shown negatively in a particular prejudice, and you'll likely get the living tar beaten out of you if you call someone a name based on their race or religion. But just how many people complain when a white male is used as the villain of a story, or called "snowflake", or if people say "We can't help it. We're men.", or all of these dumb father jokes (especially with adult cartoon shows like The Simpsons) that make males look like incompetent gaurdians. And even with little boys, they are, more often than not, shown as the mischievous mess-makers while the little girls are often shown as book-smart mild-mannered little princesses who can sometimes be stronger or tougher than the boys just to show who's in charge. Hmph. So... What exactly are we supposed to believe here? Only white males can be put down? White males should grow up with inferiority complexes just to make everyone else feel better?

              I find that to be insulting to white males because historically, they've included geniuses like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, and Leonardo Divinci just to name a few. Yet when someone thinks of a white male, they're more likely to think of Homer Simpson. It's also insulting to the other genders, races and creeds because if they're really so great, they don't NEED to make white men look bad just to boost their own self esteem. The worst part of it is that nobody ever seems to notice. I mean, nobody thinks its insulting to show a young woman as the hero of a story, such as Kim Possible, but if they have a particularly shrew-like villainess, even though they're SUPPOSED to be evil, BAM! Instant law suit and sexist label. And you always hear bad stuff about the white man enslaving a colored person or taking away an indian's land, but how many of you out there want to hear about the same thing with a reversed role (someone of a different nationality enslaving white men). It's the same story, the same moral, but it just doesn't sound the same unless a white guy is the goat does it?

               Another thing that doesn't make sense is in our legal system. Our legal process is based on presumed innocence unless there's sufficient evidence against the accused, and even then, some fancy-pants lawyer can brainwash the twelve untrained members of the jury, or the self-righteous judge. The jury may be prejudiced against the accused or for the accused and not care what the lawyer says. The lawyer probably doesn't care who's right or who's wrong as long as he wins and gets a nice fat check, and how do we know the jury hasn't been bribed or something? And just because the lawyer comes up with a plausible excuse, it certainly doesn't stop the accused from being guilty and worthy of being punished. If all that weren't enough, the killers aren't being punished as much as they should be. I mean, they took a human life, which is something nothing in the world can restore or re-create when it's gone, AND is very precious. What do they get for it? A few years in prison? A sentence in an asylum? Maybe a lifetime sentence in prison? Let out on a temporary insanity plea? Self defense? Involuntary manslaughter? Blast it, they should die! They should have their own lives given up for the life they took away, regardless of whether it was malicious or if it was going to happen again, or if they were nuts at the time but they're not now.

                 I'd like to finish up with another thing that makes no sense, but that we all love anyway. Babies. I mean, it's practically against the law not to love them just because they're so dang cute and helpless, but infants exist to be taken care of, and taking care of an infant is VERY unsatisfying. They make more messes than you can clean up, they never appear grateful, they make enough noises to give you constant headaches, it'll be many years before they can do anything at all for you including saying your name, and by the time they ARE older, they will have forgotten anything nice you did for them when they were babies. I mean, think about it: How many things do YOU remember about what someone did for you back when you were in diapers? I'll bet that if anyone considerably older than you said they babysitted you when you were a baby, you'd believe them, and if someone who watched you when you were little DIDN'T come up to you and mention it, you wouldn't know them at all.

           (Sigh) When you're a mother or father of children, it's a different story. They more or less have to keep respecting you because you're their guardian, but if you're their aunt or uncle, I'd strongly suggest you wait until your neices and/or nephews get old enough to appreciate you, and while they're still like three or younger, stick to things such as providing money, materials, or keeping them safe. Leave the messy and teaching things to the parents.

Anyway, it's not rocket science, and if you agree or disagree, you can send me a comment. Stay tuned for my other blogs.