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Act Like a Human Being.

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Trader Joe’s , originally uploaded by studio4041.


What turns some drivers into monsters when they get into the Studio City Trader Joe’s parking lot?

Yesterday, I stopped off there, around 11 am, to pick up a few items.

As I waited for an older lady to pull out of a parking space, a “young” woman in a Mercedes had to stop behind me.

Looking in my rear view mirror, I could see the Mercedes lady making gestures and signs indicating that I was “crazy” and “what the fuck are you doing?” That’s right, she was incensed, angered and completely furious that she had to stop inside a parking lot to wait for me to park.

And I needed to back up a bit to allow the old lady in front of me to pull out. The Mercedes driver would not move. With an expressionless Botox face, eyes covered in sunglasses, she was not going to reverse.

I got out of my car and walked back to her. “Would you pull your car back?” I asked. Behind her closed window, she screamed, “You’re crazy. Look at your car! If you lay a hand on my car, I’ll call the police.” She pulled into reverse, maybe 2 feet back.

The old lady pulled out, I pulled in and the Mercedes drove into the lane that exited onto Ventura Boulevard. While she stopped there at the light, I walked up to her again.

“Why don’t you try to act human,” I screamed.

It seemed to have no effect on her whatsoever.

Crude Times.

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crudenessOnce upon a time, there were public words that were not generally uttered in public. Comedian George Carlin was famous for reciting the seven dirty words that you could not say on television in 1972.

Gradually, we know that swearing and public vulgarity are now out in the open, for anyone to see.

Barnes and Noble, a respected national retailer of books, has a big sign in their window at The Grove advertising a woman who calls herself “E’s Answer Bitch”.

I don’t know who Leslie Gornstein is, nor do I really care, since her affiliation with “E!” is enough to make me not want to watch her or buy her books.

But I wonder about the word “bitch”, a term that many people find to be just as demeaning to woman as “slut” or “c–t”. Why is it funny? And why is it proper and fitting for a chain store to advertise this ugly word in big letters on their front windows when thousands of children pass by here daily? Does a woman calling herself “bitch” make it right?

What if I were to go into this Barnes and Noble and walk up to a female worker and say to her, “Hey, Bitch can you find me a book?” What would her possible reaction be? Would a waiter working in a restaurant in The Grove walk up to a table of old ladies and ask, “Hey you old bitches, are you ready to order?” Of course not. But someone at Barnes and Noble has spent thousands promoting the “E!’s Answer Bitch” and printing posters to hang in the window.

Maybe it is something small or unimportant to get offended about. But I offer this poster as an exhibit to just how crude the times we live in are.