How To Be A Cry Baby
Today’s world is full of many people, all of whom fall into some kind of group. Groups like good, bad, evil, do-gooders, cheaters, etc. You can get more specific and group people into pilots, programmers, spawn campers (a la Quake), whatever. You name it, there’s some kind of grouping for it. And there’s nothing that says you can’t belong to more than one group; in fact there’s really no rules to this grouping game at all.
There are many groups you should strive to belong to; groups like peacekeepers or tree huggers or any group that basically tries to make the world a better place. Like getting rid of world hunger or helping people in remote villages get access to clean drinking water. All good, noble groups. But of all the groups, there are many you should do you best to avoid. Today, we’ll look at the cry-baby/complainer group. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with complaining, unless you find yourself doing it all the time, over and over (especially about the same thing) and not actually doing anything whatsoever to fix it. So, you want to belong to that group? Here’s a look at some sample things you can do to join.
1. Complain. Over and over. Tell the world (a blog is a great and conveniently lazy way to do this) how wronged you have been. Over and over. But never actually do anything to try and make things better. Chit chat about traffic jams is a personal favourite of mine for this.
2. Complain about silly things like how high the steps are at houses where you deliver mail.
3. Complain in court instead of trying to resolve a problem between yourselves. Everyone’s a winner when there are lawyers involved.
4. Take your complaints out on the messenger. Messengers are an easy target and directing your complaints to them will make yourself feel better, while at the same time avoiding actually solving anything. Another win-win situation.
5. Make sure you jump on a bandwagon if one exists. You always have more leverage for your whining when there is more than one person (except in the Army where this is considered mutiny).
Dare I go on? Choose your groups wisely for people will always judge you by your actions and thus by what groups you fall into. Oh and before you give me grief about complaining about the complainers… I’m trying to help them by pointing out their faults. :) And no, I am NOT talking about anyone in particular… this is just a funny blog that came out of that silly article above regarding Canada Post.
Tue, 31 May 2005 13:39 Posted in General
