The Itch and the truck driver

Every itch begins from a place of itchlessness, or, no itchness. From the moment an itch is made manifest, it quickly progresses from annoying to maddening. Scratching brings temporary relief, which is always followed by worse itching. Left alone, however, most itches simply vanish. This is no simple feat. To leave an itch unattended, one has to experience the itch in real time. That requires suspension of judgement. The itch is neither good nor bad. Pleasant or awful. It simply is. So the question I have to ask myself is, ” Can i not scratch for two more years? six years, ever again?

Trucks and miscellaneous construction equipment emit a piercing ‘beep-beep-beep’ noise when they back up. I’ve always assumed this sound was a response to past litigation. Insurance companies, seeking to avoid lawsuits, decided this was a defendable way to warn stupid people that a large vehicle was sneaking up on them. In other words, flattened morons can’t sue a construction company if they are duly alerted by a series of shrieking beeps. Now I should make clear, I’m totally in favor of signaling dumbasses. But what I do not support is the ‘beep-beep-beeping’ happening every friggin’ morning at the break of friggin’ dawn. Who’s up to be run over that early?! And I’ll take it one step further. I think the drivers of these vehicles back up way more than necessary. I think they secretly enjoy the fact that they’re waking up people for miles around. I think they think, “

i’m up early, so screw you, you get up too. anyway that’s what i think. have no solution to this situation. just wanted these people know that on them, and hate them.

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