The simple fact is that I was not built for heat. Besides being old and fat, IBS can make things ... complicated (to say the least) in summer. Add to that my general persnicketiness when the summer's heat bears down, and you have the makings of the ultimate curmudgeon.

And you kids, get off my lawn. Except I'm pretty sure the bulk of the illegal fireworks still being set off well into the wee hours of the morning lately have been the work of adults who just didn't care that others have to work in the morning. Thank them for my crankiness at the moment.

That's one of the things that gets my goat (I call him Claude) on a regular rotation: People who don't consider other people, who think that only their wants and needs matter. You see them in those who take up two to four parking spaces in a busy parking lot (and you can bet that in a paid parking lot they're only paying for one space; at least pay for all you occupy so that private business won't be out for the extra spaces). They're also the ones who leave their shopping carts just wherever, blow through stop signs and lights because they feel entitled, belittle those who must get by using SNAP and other programs (we all need help sometimes, especially in this economy), and embody so many other things the red words in the Bible warned us against.

What so many seem to forget is that we all live in the same world, and rules are........

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