Banks are run by Celebrities

so i check my bank account and some numbers are missing…i call the bank…i go through the whole automated bs that never really answers any questions…i grow tired of the charade and press 0 to speak to an actual human who can actually give me a clue…

blah blah blah…deposited on friday…blah blah blah…this guy who obviously believes that he is the end all and be all proceeds to tell me that all banking functions have been pushed back a day because of the holiday…vetran’s day…

ok….so my bank….who only opens for 3 hours on saturday to begin with…they all took those 3 hours off-vetran and layman….and these missing 3 hours have delayed my banking activities for a day OR MORE (he says)….

whatthefuckindabullshitizthat??

has every gd person in the banking industry served our country?….and what the hell is up with bank holidays any fucking way? they are little more than customer service agents-you know, like the check out girl at wal-mart, but they take off more fucking holidays than my kid’s school. who the fuck are these lazy bastards -and can someone bring them into this fucking century? can you name one other industry that simply shuts the hell down-regardless of who it inconvieninces, and chocks it up to an industry holiday?

what if cashiers across america decided that they would not work their register on any holiday that’s remotely recognized by our country all willy nilly? imagine finding out that you couldn’t buy your monday groceries until tuesday or wednesday because it is george washington’s birthday? how pissed would you be?

it is ridiculous-i realize that many years ago, the ‘bank’ was looked at like a super power house, etc but today it is run by glorified check out girls and boys, yet i have to plan my life around their days off?!?!? i call bull shit!

i need a new bank-one that realizes they are their for MY convenience, not the other freaking way around. this is fucking ridiculous-its 2006-you do not put an entire industry on pause to take the gd day off you f-ing idiots! and again…vetran’s day??????? what they hell were you celebrating-90% or more of you have never served our country for 30 seconds-cashing my check is NOT serving our country…

dear bankers…you suck

pilgrims, indians and schools

so i picked my kindergartner up from school…we are having the normal ‘what’d you learn…yeah…really…okay, use it in a sentence…she did what…that’s funny’ drive home chatter when she informs me that they are of-course learning about the origins of thanksgiving-

let me pause for a moment and clarify, i love thanksgiving. i love it as a holiday to get together with family, cook too much, eat too much, gain a pant size, watch some football, listen to kids screaming and running around the house, laughing, wine drinking…good times. i do not love the origins of thanksgiving, and have avoided recognizing the holiday and the history as being related until this year.

 anyway….so she tells me that the pilgrims were very nice people, who helped the indians….

‘helped?….did your teacher say how they helped?’

‘yes, she said that they taught the indians how to read and talk and make stuff. they taught them how to act and how to take care of their families. it was nice.’

whatthefuckindabullshitizthat??

what g-d year IS this? why are our children being taught the same bubble gum and bullshit history that we were taught years ago-has there been absolutely no progress in education what so fucking ever? i can’t wait to hear how they interpret slavery-let me guess, they went to africa and helped the poor people out of the jungle and gave them a chance by bringing them to america and teaching them how to talk and make stuff….it makes me sick to my stomach to think that this is why i am sending my kid to school…to be lied to and confused about how this world was and is….wtf?

i tried to keep quiet and accept the school’s version because she so enjoyed making her paper teepee…and i did…for almost five muntes before i felt compelled to correct the disneyfied version of our country’s history.

i explained to both of my children that the indians:

-were not from indian, they were from america and are the only natives of america making them native americans

-could talk just fine

-knew how to not only take care of their families, build what needed to be built, and how to cure many sicknesses and infact many of the same practices to cure ailments are in use today

-could read their language

-were trying to be nice to the pilgrims when they were almost entirely wiped out

-were tricked into wrapping their families with blankets that had be contaminated with small pox, including their children then forced to watch them die

-were scalped and killed like animals for fun and profit

-were driven out of areas were they could live happily into areas of the country that were barren and unable to grow food or thrive

 i explained to them that native americans never asked for or needed any help-they were just fine. i told her what the pilgrims did was like me going to someone’s house, pretending to be their friend, teaching them spanish, destroying their food, telling them to leave their house forever and when they said no, killing them-their entire family, and then living in their house, telling the world how i happened to ‘discover’ it.

they looked at me, then my oldest said…’okay, so the pilgim’s suck…what’s for dinner?’