Amusement park annoyances.

This year for spring break we took in two amusement parks.  I love amusement parks.  The people watching is superior and the smells and excitement are intoxicating.  It seems that every time I pay a visit to an amusement park a list of similar situations catch my attention.  Can we visit a few of them?

1. There is a tshirt that is popular, I'm not sure why anyone thinks it is funny but I will without fail see it at a park visit.  It says Cool Story Babe, now go fix me a sandwich.  The first time I saw this tshirt it was being worn by a 12 year old boy and I thought how sad that this poor child is being raised by such horrible parents.  This time however it was being worn by an overweight balding man with no "Babe" in sight.  I found myself wondering why he was still wearing the tshirt because apparently his "babe" had left him after he got overweight eating all those sandwiches.

2. Heavy makeup.  Dare I say clown like.  One gets hot and sweaty at amusement parks.  Why on earth would one want to apply so much makeup before a day of coaster riding?  A new trend that I noticed was to shave ones eyebrows off and then draw them back on.  Really?  You honestly think you are better at drawing eyebrows?  I can't draw a stick figure man, I certainly am not going to take on a predominant feature of my face!

3. Bright colored hair.  I may be in my 40's but I still think this is a fun look especially for summer.  I saw a woman with black, neon green and then a few strands of kelly green in the front.  It looked so cute!  If this is a look that you are going to go for please please please spend the money to have it done right.  About the park there were various examples of do and do not versions of this hair style.  The ones that I would say were the do not versions looked reminiscent of a 10 year old tie dye tshirt that wasn't done right in the first place.

4. PDA.  I don't care if you are homo or hetero no one wants to see you get it on with your significant other in a line that we will be extremely up close and personal in for the next 90 minutes.

5. I have come to terms with the whole piercings phenomenon.  Nose...tongue..eyebrow.  You do what you got to do.  I saw a new one this trip.  Lower back.  Has anyone else seen this?  Okay, you know how skinny people have two dimples on their lower back?  Okay.  Well put a stud in each of those.  I don't even want to know how they do it.  I would be ripping mine out every time I put my pants on so this is a no go fashion statement for me personally.

6. Do not sit on the hand rails.  This is not new.  Every park I have ever visited will announce for your safety please do not sit on the handrails and yet every time some one is sitting on the handrails.  What could the answer to this age old problem be?  I thought maybe you could heat them up, you know the temperature of the sun then put disclaimers all over them warning people so that you can't get sued.  You could put slime all over them.  Make it look completely disgusting like boogers or poo, it could even be scented.  How about slick metal walls?  Honestly this is the best choice.  Air condition that bad boy and make waiting in the 120 min line at least somewhat cool.

Thank you for indulging me.  What is your favorite amusement park annoyance?

You think you know...but you don't.

Educated guess.  Guesstimate.  Hypothesis.  Assumption. Speculation. Deduction. Derivation. Interpretation.

A person goes about their day to day living their life and basing their observations on what they have experienced.  This person will react to an offending situation based on their opinion without thinking there just might be another viewpoint.  There are ALWAYS at least 2 sides to a story.

All I am saying is that when you go about your day to day life realize that people around you are hurting.  People around you are carrying an invisible load.  The cashier that doesn't speak or snaps at you could just have an unfortunate personality but more likely that person has had something hurt them.  

The child that acts out or is sarcastic could just need a little mercy...grace...KINDNESS.  Especially with a child, if you return sarcasm to their sarcasm the only thing that you are teaching them is that is an appropriate behavior because an adult did it.

Today's assignment.  Don't go about your day trying to find the hurting and help them.  Live your life intentionally thinking that you have no clue who is hurting so everyone deserves your kindness.  Your long fuse.  Your smile.

Have a great day.