The Occasional Solipsist

For anyone who knows me, either through direct experience or gleaned from browsing through the many shining examples on this blog, I am not now, nor have I ever been the most sensitive of people.

Not that I'm declaring to the world for once and for all that I am a bonafide jerk. People like me don't make declarations like that.

But I will say that I am not anywhere near as nice a guy as some out there, and here's why:

I had to sit through an agonizing 8+ hour drive up north to my in-laws on Friday, a drive that should have taken a scant 4.5 hours but for one silly bitch's bad driving. I don't know the details of the accident that closed the highway seemingly FOREVER, but what I do know is that a minivan entered a contest with a gas tanker in a very head-on capacity and surprisingly, the minivan lost. And because of this loss, I myself lost an extra 3.5 hours that I would rather have spent at my in-laws sailing quietly away from sobriety.

So, insensitive prick that I am, I spent the vast majority of that time sitting on the highway, listening to Superwife loudly count the minutes to and past Trinity's next feeding, smelling the pungent aroma of my daughter's latest offering, and seething at how inconvenient it was for the person driving that minivan to go ahead and get into an accident that killed them.

Imagine the nerve, ruining my friday afternoon like that.

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Insert funny segway here.

Meh, I've never been much for segways. To prove that, here's a great clip I came across today. Froggers of the world unite. Hilarious.

And in one bold, last non-segway, I just tonight got my hands on the new Ultimate Spiderman game. The good and moral part of me can't wait to save New York from all of the baddies. And the insensitive prick in me (see above) can't wait to kick hell out of all those innocent civilians.

Labels: family, gaming, rants, trinity