The Daily Peeve / Rant

This is not a big peeve but is was somewhat annoying, although culturally interesting.

This sfternoon I attended a dramatic production by our town's Black Repertory theater company. It was a serious play about a woman who goes after her former slave for a sexual relationship.

The audience hooped and hollered throughout the play, and even laughed at the struggles of the (evil) white woman as she lay on the floor dying. Granted, there were little ironic bits of humor in the play as there should be in a good drama. But felt like I was attending a big cartoon production. All of the laughter throughout was disconcerting. I dont mind a bit of audience participation especially in films, but this was too much.

I cant help but wonder how the actress felt as she played the dying woman. Maybe she played up the comic aspects a bit?

This was a Sumday afternoon crowd and I really think they were far more kid-like than other audiences I have been part of at the Black Rep. There were large groups of college kids, and I wonder if they were the loud, laughing ones? I hate to say that because I was seated in the midst of one such college group and while they might have talked to each other during the production, just a little, talked about the play, they were NOT the hoopers and hollerers.

It was just--odd.

I think I will avoid matinee performances at the Black Rep. Evening audiences are more serious.

So, I apparently being hot wasn't just from the weather, looks like I have the flu or a virus. Feeling horrible today and did last night. Managed to watch Poldark while lying in bed in a stupor. My brain is feeling fuzzy and I feel woozy and dizzy. Hope this thing passes fast because the weather is now lovely.

This annoyed me today. I was at my primary to get my physical. She has all new front desk staff who have both been there 8 mos now yet still can't seem to get shit done. As I waited to check in, the receptionist said this to a patient on the phone, "He wrote declined. THat's all, I don't know why. No, I do not know why it is declined, it just is," with a tone like "don't bother me". Before she checks me in, she swivels around and says to the other receptionist, "do you believe the shit we have to put up with?" The other woman said, "I know, it's ridiculous what people want." WHAT??? You say all this in front of a line of actual patients, plus you did nothing to help the patient dealing with the denial issue.

I think being a receptionist is incredibly hard and annoying, I would not want that job. But can you try to put on your game face and not swear about patients in front of patients? Jeebus. My doctor would've fired those two on the spot if she knew but because she tolerates no BS she has trouble keeping front desk staff and I didn't want to ruin her day.

Yeah, that is pretty poor customer service...yikes! It reminded me of last summer when I fell down the stairs and broke my foot. I somehow got myself to the urgent care, tear-stained face, wobbly as hell on crutches, and the receptionist is trying to jam a clipboard into my hands while I am desperately trying not to fall over. The whole front desk was so rude and unhelpful (even to the doctor that saw me) I decided it warranted a call to the office manager the next day to discuss how the front line treats their patients in their fancy new office.

maybe I should do that, but one of them might have been the office manager for all I know

Back and forth weather, I put away my summer clothes and now it is hot again.

However, at night it is cold!

So, the biggest black widow spider in the world migrated from the mailbox to my dining room and into the kitchen.

Sorry, but it had to go to never never land.

New rule: no one is allowed to say "right?" at the end of most of their sentences. Please. It's like the speaker keeps asking for validation. Very annoying and distracting.

traffic grid lock (have I said this before) If you are in a city and the light is green you STILL need to make sure there is room to get through and leave the intersection clear. It doesn't help my attitude when the license plate of the offender is from a mid-western state either.

I work in a college library. And I swear, I don't know how some of these kids get into college. The one working on my shift right now doesn't know how to tell how a newspaper's sections work. A guy came up to the counter and asked for the Times. We get two papers: the Times and the Clarion. The papers are not delivered all in one piece: they are sometimes in three or four sections each. She hands him the "top section" of the Times. He asks, Is this it? It seems awfully small for a Sunday paper.

As he walked away, I knew that couldn't be all of the paper. I go over to the counter, next to where she is sitting, and lo and behold, there's the other sections of the Times.

Do these kids not know to look at the top of the paper for the name of it? Maybe they've never seen a newspaper. This particular one seems like a real dim bulb.

I know I sound like a b*tch.