Ticketmaster

You know what really grinds my gears?

Ticketmaster. Every time I try to purchase concert tickets, I get the ticketmaster run around. First with the pre sales. If you don't pay $50 or have a platinum amex card, you can't get good tickets. Once you go on at the exact time, you will be placed in a line that continues to get longer. A one minute wait becomes a five minute wait, as if thousands of people are cutting the line in front you. Afterwards, you are assigned a terrible seat. You may graciously accept it or let it go to get a worse seat. Then you get dinged with the fees. They charge you a "convenience charge" for being incredibly inconvenient. Then they charge you to print out your tickets.

They are obviously a monopoly and need to be shut down.

Unnecessary social networking sites.

You know what really grinds my gears?

Unnecessary social networking sites. Ok, I will say that some of these are just incredible, Like take Facebook for example. It is genius and has been an incredible tool for me with a lot of the work that I do.

But some of these are tools that are just abused. For example, I have to manage a Twitter account at my office and people share the stupidest shit. Like "My cat likes his new toy" or "OMG! LUV THE JoBro" or they will link to pointless websites. I sometimes wonder why our tax dollars are paying to have this archived by the government. In 1000 years, people will look back and be like, "Damn! Their lives were boring as fuck"

With that said, I absolutely hate FourSquare (4sq). This is a site that tracks you and tells all of your e-friends where you are at any given minute. Like really, i don't wanna know if you are at Trader Joe's, Penn Station or Planned Parenthood. have you ever stopped to think it may not be the best idea to publish your movements to people on the internet?

Mall Cops

You know what really grinds my gears?

Mall Cops. These individuals were so smart that they have entered the field of being rent-a-cops. I am not talking about the people who just work in malls, I am taking about people who are paid to be "security guards." These people range from Mall Cops to Wackenhuts to Gated Community Guards to the man who feels it necessary to pull me aside walking out of kmart with one box of laundry detergent.

Basically these are people who have absolutely no authority or legal power, and feel saddened by it, so they go out of their way to be as obnoxious and rude as they possibly can.

For anyone who has gone to college recently, I am sure you can remember the lovely encounters with campus police. These are some of the only people on the payroll who interact with students, yet, are too stupid to have a college degree. These individuals get a sort of sick pleasure of hassling students for presentation of ID cards or inconveniencing them and smiling while doing it. As Ms. Lindsey Kay Howard can attest to, these are the some of the smuggest SOB's out there.

Then, we have the mall cop. They single out teenagers because (Of course...) people in their 20s and older never steal. These people are too lazy to walk around the mall and use a segway to make their way through people. The Segway mall cop has a larger ego than most because he is slightly higher than everyone else. These people segway back and forth between the food court and main entrance which why they are often slightly over weight.

If you are from South Florida or LA, you may be familiar with the idea of a gated community. Essentially, people put giant signs on the entrance to their neighborhoods in the form of a gate that say the following: "We have cool stuff to steal". Anyway, these people feel that they are the police force with in the gates and will do things such as give tickets, ask for IDs and give you disapproving looks.

But what really grinds my gears is the following. Why are these people packing heat? Seriously, if you can't be a real cop (because they are just so smart too) why are you permitted to hold a gun?