The real spirit of the Fourth of July

The 4th of July weekend was eventful, both for the good and the bad.

My mom came up to spend the day with me. Her and my stepdad got a hotel so we could go swimming. The first one advertised their pool open but it was not. She got her money back but stayed at another one. We spent the day together, went to dinner and watched the fireworks. She also got me a screen door for my apartment.

I would have spent three days with my mom but in the middle of what was supposed to be a three day my idiot boss scheduled me for a 4 hour shift. I barely worked but it ruined everything.

My DVD player died so I went to get a new one. The local K-Mart is going out of business so I thought it would be a good place to get one. I found a Curtis brand DVD player for $26. I thought it was the best I would do so I got it. I set it up and sure enough not only did it stop playing DVDs but also shorted out my flat screen TV!!! Now, no DVD player and no TV either.

I had to wait for the K-Mart store manager to come in to get it returned and they only gave me a gift card in exchange! So I used it to get a 16gb flash drive and a copy of “The Avengers” for my friend Hunter.

I then drove to Wal-Mart and they had a Sony DVD player for $30! If only I had not jumped at that crappy one I could have saved my self a lot of grief for just $4 more!

To paraphrase a quote Homer Simpson: “WHY MUST LIFE BE SO HARD?! WHY MUST I FAIL AT EVERY THING I DO?!”

I forgot to wish everyone a happy 4th of July!

Today we celebrate the fact that a bunch of rich, aristocratic white guys didn’t want to pay their taxes, so they started a war that poor people fought for them and then turned around and taxed said poor people who could not vote because they did not own enough land and crushed them in two separate tax revolts similar to the one they started. 

Of course, the same thing happened in 4th of February 1861 the same thing happened but those men are remembered as rebels and traitors.

Go fig.

Fly on hypocrisy flag!