Phoenix Drivers

I have a new job that I started a couple weeks ago and it is located on the other side of the valley. For those of you that don't know Phoenix is divided up into four valleys, NE, NW, SE and SW. I live in the south west valley and I work in the north east valley. It is approximately 35 miles away. In any other part of this country that would take about 30 minutes but here in phoenix it takes over an hour. No you did not read that wrong. I sit behind every tom, dick and harry that either are texting, eating, putting on make-up, watching the cop on the side of the road or those who literally don't know how to drive. What I mean is we have illegal immigrants that can read or speak English but some how have a car. They have never driven before nor have any idea of the laws but they are driving.

At least once a week you see something on the news about a hit and run or a car crash that the driver jumps out of the car and runs off. Daily you see van or trucks pulled over with a bunch of Mexicans sitting hand cuffed up on the side of the road. It is the wild west out here, but with no Indians, just illegal Mexicans.

I think the highways should be more like the bumber cars at an amusement park. If someone is in your way just bump them out of the way.

HALLOWEEN COSTUMES AND KIDS

What the hell is wrong with people. I was at the costume shop last night looking for a Halloween costume for my infant daughter and I see a few young girls starring at the wall covered with pictures of all the different costume ideas. I look at the board trying to find something cute for Olivia and I start seeing all of the pre-teen/teen girls costumes. No wonder why kids are having sex so young these days. Almost every costume was slutty. (Short skirts, low cut shirts or mid drift shirts, sexy nurse, sexy school girls, sexy everything) Teen age girls should have nothing with the work "sexy" attached to it. The should dress like kids instead of slutty girls hanging out a bars and street corners. They need to wait until college for that.

What ever happened to dressing up as your favorite action figure, monster or comic book character? I used to wear a big winter jacket undernear a cheap plasic cover all with a picture of incredible hulk on it and a hard plastic mask that made me sweat. I looked like crap but I still got candy. Halloween used to be all about candy not the costume. Costumes were just the means to the end.

Now that I have a daughter I notice all this stuff that amazes me. The stuff that I once thought was funny or cool now drives me crazy. Anything to do with children I am now very sensitive about. I can say this for sure that my daughter is not going to be allowed to wear anything like that. No make-up until sixteen and definitely nothing that is considered "sexy". There are too many perverts out there now a days.

Mexican Food

What the hell is up with all of the Mexican restaurants in this city? My new boss loves Mexican food. Every time I have lunch with him he wants to eat Mexican. He eats it three times a day. You have to be kidding me? I eat it once and I have three blow outs. Actually, that is going to be my new diet plan. Eat Mexican food and blow everything out my ass. I am sure to lose at least half my body weight in two weeks.

Anyways, Mexican food consists of five or six different ingredients; rice, beans, salsa, ground beef or chicken, tortillas, and cheese. How come when you go into a Mexican restaurant their menus are like ten pages long? How many different ways can you cook the same six ingredients? How many different ways can you serve those six ingredients on a tortilla? Pan fried, deep fried, steamed, roll up, served flat? Who gives a shit? NEWS FLASH.... IT ALL TASTES THE SAME. Don't try to fool me by calling is something fancy. (insert any Mexican dishes name here, I can't spell the crazy Mexican words) Is a barrito any different if you have red sauce or green sauce on it? Don't try to be so crafty. Everything should be call taco's. You have your choice of hard or soft tortilla shells. It is up to you. How easy it that?

Traffic Court

I was pulled over in the city of Goodyear for not obeying a traffic device. Just in case you didn't know a traffic device is anything in the road that helps control traffic. In my case, the white line near an intersection. I am in the middle of all farm land approaching an intersection, there is a white line, then stop sign, and approximately 18 feet later an intersection. I, just like every other person in the world does, stopped at the stop sign. After going through the intersection I got pulled over by a 22 year old police officer. He gave me a ticket for not obeying the traffic devices at the intersection. He admitted that I stopped but I didn't stop where I was supposed to. He said what if there were people crossing the intersection. I reminded him we were in the middle of no where. There are no cross walks or street signs indicating pedestrian crossing ahead. He was pissing me off so bad that when he asked me to sign the ticket I threw the pen back at him. He proceeded to asked for a contact number. I told him "I didn't have one". He stated I couldn't leave until I gave him one. So I gave him one "555-5555". He says "I can stand here all day". I wanted to follow that statement up with "it's 115 degrees outside and nice and cool inside my car, I can do this too". I didn't say anything else and finally gave him my number.

Needless to say I went to court to defend myself. I brought photos of the intersection to help prove my case. I plead not guilty and a month later we went to trail. My court date was two days ago and I can't believe what happened.

First off, the young police officer completely lied in court about what happened. He stated that I ran the stopped sign completely and just blew through the intersection. Later he admitted I stopped but said I was way out in the middle of the intersection. The judge was taken back by this case. It was not an open and shut case as some may believe. He had to take a recess to talk it over with two other judges. Have you ever heard of such a thing? Taking a recess in traffic court to figure out the case.

Anyways, twenty plus minutes go by and the judge walks back into the room with two different law books. He starts reading a whole bunch of different laws for various traffic statutes around Arizona. He stated that "the white line is a traffic device that you must stop behind. If there is a stop sing pasted the white line you must pull up to the stop sign and then stop there as well and if the intersection is beyond that you again have to pull up and stop at the intersection." WHAT!
So, if you weren't paying attention at this particular intersection you have to stop three time before you can go by.

This is my problem. If a judge, who has studied law his whole life, had to have a 20 plus minute recess to find out the traffic laws, how in Gods name is the everyday guy suppose to know this. Even though I did stop at the stop sign I did not complete all three stop that this intersection requires thus I was found guilty for not following a traffic device. I cost me $150 bucks for following the laws that I was taught in driving school. What really makes matters worse the judge told the officer not to pull people over for this any longer. WHAT! That is how messed up phoenix is right now. They are so up-side-down in debt that they need every penny they can squeeze out of people. BURN baby BURN.

WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT

This blog is dedicated to what I like to call "the messed up things in this world". Each day I will pick something that really grinds my gears. Sometimes it will be funny, other times it will be angry, and most times it will be stuff that just pisses me off. We live in a crazy messed up world and I just want to get some things off my chest. Please understand that these are solely my views on what is going on around me and some of the facts and figures may be askew. I hope you enjoy the reading.