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Listen, I respect your right to gather, to tie up traffic, to protest, to get your message out there any way you can. anyway that is EXCEPT for hounding me to take a flier. I told you I didn't want one, I told you I wasn't interested and still you stuffed that stupid fluorescent green piece of paper in my hand. Now I really do wish you had been trying to save the planet by handing me a dead tree, but I honestly wasn't listening to you well enough to find out.

Also I'm sorry if you were embarrassed when I crumpled the pamphlet and threw it in your face, I am also shocked that the cop standing right there, made YOU pick it up at the threat of a citation for littering. That's fucked up. Maybe if you had been pissing and moaning about the abuse of power the Cambridge police exhibit, I would have been more interested in your cause... Well, probably not, you see I was on my way to get coffee. I'm a bit of a brute without my coffee in the morning.


And this happened.

A few weeks ago I swung over to the local mall. My goal was simple, picking up GEARS OF WAR 2 at the local gamestop. To my dismay I was 2 days early I hadn't realized that the game wasn't being released until the Friday that week and I showed up Wednesday. So this wasn't that big of a deal, Or was it?

At that point which would have been around November fifth I had been without my Diabetes meds for about a week. Unfortunately when my blood sugar gets high I get a bit mean spirited, well I become an asshole. But Now, I KNOW this and if I learned anything from a childhood watching cartoons, it's that "Knowing is Half the Battle!"

I thought to myself, I'll grab an Iced Coffee At the Dunkin' and head home before blow my lid and do something stupid.

So I get in line at Dunkin'. There is a woman ordering two dozen doughnuts... at the mall... that the Dunkin Donut Kiosk ...AT THE FUCKING MALL!

"Breath, relax chill out."
I repeat in my head.
"Breath, relax chill out."

...And I do, I take a deep breath, I relax, and I order my Coffee.

"Large Iced Hazlenut, Four Slenda, Extra Cream."

The woman turns to me and with a straight face says. "Your crazy. that stuff will give you Cancer."

I can't believe this. "wh-wh-what?"

She continues. "that much, well any splenda, It'll give you cancer."


I tell her that I'm diabetic, and I'll take my chances, and I thank her. I'm still polite, and calm, and relaxed.

"And Seizures or epilep..."

Yeah, I yelled at her. But I got my coffee. =)