People and Cable

Ok, so people in general make me angry, now that we have that out in the open, there has been one thing lately which is absolutely driving me up the wall, to the point of obsession actually. That issue believe it or not, is cable T.V. don't get me wrong here I love my cable T.V. not enough however to jeopordize my financial future or endure endless collection calls because I refuse to pay other bills just so I can watch my beloved cable T.V.

Now maybe you think I'm making this up, let me assure you I am not. I am fortunate enough to get to talk to these wonderful people every day. Lately I've been in a shitty mood, so I've been asking them difficult questions. Like what their monthly income is, then what the must pay expenses are in their lifes, thinking that this would prompt things like, rent/mortgage, gas, electric, food. That sort of thing, but you know what the only thing people can't really get by without... CABLE T.V.

That to me is so blatantly irresponsible and pathetic it's borderline retarded. How can you justify paying 40 dollars a month so you can watch CSI reruns 900 times weekly when you can't even make an attempt at a payment on your credit card, which loaned you thousands of dollars. It's theft for Christ's sake!

And heaven forbid you mention that maybe a way they could cut down on expenses would be to get rid of the cable T.V. for a couple of weeks and go with the old fashioned regular channels. Or heaven forbid get a library card FOR FREE and get books from the library to read, which also happen to be FREE. If you so much as imply that they could do without cable, these kindly old souls will rip your head off and chew on the bloody stump that is your neck. It's unreal, I can compare it very literally to seeing someone with turrets. You can make the most innocent of comments, like "wow, you can pay your cable bill but not the credit cards" and they suddenly start spewing obscenities that would make the most avid fan of cursing cringe.

The other genuinely sad part of this is that these people who are most upset about the prospect of not having cable T.V. are part of the fabled greatest generation. The responsible builders of todays society have in there old age taken to running up credit debt and not paying any of it. I think that we do owe these folks a fair share of thanks. Which we give them in SSI and other programs that certaintly won't be available for my generation due to horrid mess we have made out of Social Security and medicare/aid. So one would think, that this greatest generation would have no problem sacrificing the cable T.V. so they could pay actual debts.