Wash your hands! OR ELSE!

Here is something for you to be mad about and you don’t even realize it… Have you been in the restroom at a Home Depot or Lowe’s or some other hardware store lately? I’ve noticed something in restrooms of stores that are not restaurants. You know how when you go in to take a piss in a restaurant’s bathroom, you see the signs that say something like “employees must wash hands before leaving?” I’ve started to see those signs pop up in the restrooms of hardware stores, department stores and even places like tire shops. WTF? I understand why these signs are in restaurants of course. No one wants some guy that didn’t wash his hands after taking a crap rolling your burrito at Taco Bell. I couldn’t give a rat’s ass if the guy that is stocking the plywood in the lumber section has clean hands. In fact, I want that guy to have dirty and soiled hands, it let’s me know that he knows what he is talking about when I ask him a question about cinder blocks. Now here is the part where you should be upset; there is some government agency that oversees the signs in the restroom at the hardware store. Particularly at this juncture when the country is basically broke, is this expenditure infuriating. Do I need the government running every little part of my life? Is it really necessary to spend the money to fund the agency that is in charge of this? Is it necessary to make the stores spend money on signage? Don’t give me the argument that it is only a few bucks… I realize that it isn’t much money, but what’s next? Will there be a sign by the door that instructs employees to wipe their feet before entering the store so that customers don’t get the bottoms of their shoes dirty? If you are afraid of the employees getting the plywood dirty with their soiled hands, I’ve got some news for you; PLYWOOD IS ALREADY DIRTY!! If you are really concerned about your precious hands (probably mostly women and men that are against the don’t ask, don’t tell policy), you be responsible for yourself and wash them after you carry the plywood into your back yard. Stop trying to get your nose into everybody else’s business… I thought this was America!

Can anybody explain to me why French is the “international” language? Watching the Olympics, I remembered this fact. Every time the announcer at the events says anything, he says it in English and French. Yes, I realize that the Olympics are in Canada, but that’s not the reason they do this. How many people in the world speak French? 150 million at the most? Let’s see, you’ve got the people in France, the people in Canada (or at least some of them) and the people of a few small island nations like Haiti. I feel like I would be happier if the international language was switched to English, Spanish or even Chinese. These have to be the most spoken languages around the world, don’t you think? My guess is English is the most spoken language because even countries like India and a lot of China speak it as well. I forgot about Esperanto. Does anyone actually speak Esperanto?

Some Canadian mogul skier won a gold medal the other night in the Olympics. It was the first gold that the Canadians had ever won at the Winter Olympics while being held in Canada which is three different Olympics. What?!? Really? Canada hasn’t cleaned up at the winter games? Why not? Isn’t Canada pretty much covered in snow and ice about half of the year? Don’t a lot of Canadians grow up on ice skates or skis? You would think that just by the laws of average that Canadians would be kicking ass at the Winter Olympics. I couldn’t figure this one out. Maybe that leaf on the Canadian flag isn’t a maple leaf after all… Maybe that’s why the Canadians are so laid back and polite…