I generally am ok with where I am, Charlotte,NC. But even there are some issues that "Grind my gears"
Here they are in no order:
1. Overgrowth in the past several years, which leads to overcrowding schools, roads, green space being lost forever, etc.
2. Whining transplants who complain about how our city is not like "back home", the "this is how we did it back in (insert state here) so we want you to adapt to our ways" and the "We are better than you" attitudes comes into play here. Of course, not all transplants are like this, but too many of them are.
3. People moving here without jobs, they expect to get one but then end up working at Target, Food Lion, etc. and taking away first-time workers oppurtunity's etc because everything else is taken.
4. Ridiculous driving habits, "Oh I'll pull out in front of you at the last second but then I'll drive 15 under the speed limit". People here for some reason refuse to turn on their headlights when it is raining outside too.
5. Snobs, maybe they are everywhere, but it sincerly annoys me when I go to a shopping center and I see people who are too damn lazy to find a parking spot so they park
in the street and create traffic hazards while chatting to their best friend on the phone about how rude we are because we fail to realize that the world revolves around them. Oh and too far to walk to put the shopping cart back? no problem, just leave it where it is and hopefully someone will move it.
6. Way too many newscasts- Why do we need 3 ten pm newscasts here? and why do they cut into syndicated TV program scheduling to add more newscasts? And why start the news at 4 pm and keep it going until 8?
7. Overhyped and overdramatic weathermen. There's a thunderstorm you say, WELL THEN GOSH-DARN IT WE'RE GOING LIVE ON-AIR RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END, PLEASE SCREAM AND RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can understand if there is a severe storm that the need to cut into tv programming is neccesary, but these people take it to the extreme everytime it rains, and yet they never seem to learn from it.
8. The "hug-a-thug" program. "Your honor, he has been arrested 50 times for attempted murder, but he says he is sorry and won't do it again". Judge speaking " Not guilty, just don't do it again" which translates into, "Oh I'll see you tomorrow for the same crime but I'll still let you go because I know what a good boy you are"
9. The local sports media. Anything that isn't Carolina Panther, UNC, or (sometimes) NASCAR related tends to get tossed aside. Case in point, when Duke won their title in 2001, there was barely a word about it anywhere. When UNC won in 05 and just recently, it's all the talk for weeks. The Carolina Hurricanes playoff run recently got little talk (again
) this season from the charlotte sportscasters, although some did seem to get a little more interested than in year's past.
hmm, guess that's it.
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