A Bucket of Spam...well the Price is Right

Here are more things that bother me.

Hospital Wait Times

There is nothing good about waiting at the hospital. You're feeling like crap, the seats are uncomfortable, the reading material is boring, the atmosphere is depressing, and you're likely to catch something worse from the guy next to you coughing up fistfuls of phlegm who looks like he's been waiting so long that the hospital was built around him. I recently had to go to get a prescription and had to wait for more than three hours to have the doctor spend 60 seconds to diagnose and push me out the door. Three hours is a lot of lost recovery time, cause I certainly wasn't healing while sitting in that cloud of viruses while reading a readers digest encrusted with mucus. The worst part is, a few days later I had to return to get a note from the doctor for work purposes. This time around I was marked as "low priority" and it took me more than five hours to get that note. I should have told them I had swallowed a grenade, then I would have gotten in under two hours I'm sure.

The Price of Eating Healthy

I'm sick of hearing people acting impressed or surprised when they see a celebrity trim down after having a child, or losing a lot of weight before or after a movie role. It's easy for celebrities ... they're rich! We all want to eat healthy, but each time I go to the grocery store it becomes abundantly clear why I don't eat as well as I'd like. We're supposed to have 5-10 servings of fruits and vegetables a day but if you live in a family of three or more, you're looking at 30 servings a day, so prepare to go broke. Healthy food is expensive, in small quantities, and doesn't keep long, but unhealthy food is cheap, abundant, and will last until the end of time. You could buy organic vegetables and make a salad...or here's a loading pallet stacked of kraft dinner enough to feed you and your family for 6 months. Hell, you still have cash left over to buy some industrial tubs of mayonnaise, and a couple crates of hot dogs. No wonder we're all fat. If we were rich and could hire our own dietary advisors, personal trainers and chefs, and eat properly portioned fresh foods every meal. But since we're on a budget, it's more bologna and cheese whiz sandwiches.

Batteries

Buying batteries for anything is a pain in the ass. They're expensive, don't last as long as you'd want, and the next time I buy AA's only to find that I needed AAA's, I'm going to head butt a glass cabinet. Plus, there are too many choices! You got alkaline, rechargeable , nickel-cadmium, nickel metal hydride, lithium-ion, zinc-carbon, silver-oxide, and about a dozen sizes and shapes. If you don't get it right then you're basically feeding your digital camera money. I'm sure companies have the technology to make long lasting universal batteries, but they don't because then they couldn't sell as much. Them and the light bulb people are in cahoots and I hate their guts.