100 things I've been wondering about…

25 Jan
January 25, 2009

From pressing world matters to the utterly mundane, and in no particular order, why do (some) people…?

  1. Fail to admit to global warming despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
  2. Adopt children from overseas instead of adopting children who need homes in our own country?
  3. Drink obscene amounts of soda from bucket-sized cups?
  4. Overcaffeinate and underhydrate?
  5. Live in the same building and not greet each other in the hallway or elevator?
  6. Care more about what celebrities do or don’t do than what their family members are doing?
  7. Make war?
  8. Not believe in evolution?
  9. Cut down the trees on their front lawns?
  10. Paint their homes hideous colors?
  11. Do a lousy job decorating their homes?
  12. Spend more time watching bad TV than reading good books?
  13. Tailgate?
  14. Eat fake foods?
  15. Spank their children?
  16. Play video game musical instruments instead of learning how to play the real thing?
  17. Knowingly put unsafe chemicals in products just to make their product more profitable?
  18. Have a business but no web site for it?
  19. Not take responsibility for shoveling out their parking spots or sidewalks when it snows?
  20. Get addicted to text messaging?
  21. Broadcast their intimate thoughts over the internet?
  22. Live in this country for 20 years and never learn English?
  23. Never travel abroad?
  24. Enjoy watching people humiliate themselves on reality shows?
  25. Offer up their lives to be the subject of reality shows?
  26. Buy expensive material items instead of protecting themselves with health insurance?
  27. Not take action when they see someone needs help?
  28. Go to stores at 5am to get in line for a sale at a retail store?
  29. Over eat?
  30. Under eat?
  31. Enjoy doing things that disrupt nature (snowmobiling, jet skiing)?
  32. Fail to be curious about the world we live in?
  33. Kill animals for sport?
  34. Not understand that their actions affect others?
  35. Buy cheesy art?
  36. Collect dumb stuff?
  37. Wear colors that don’t flatter them?
  38. Not update their wardrobes?
  39. Have a hard time accepting people who are different from themselves?
  40. Live beyond their means?
  41. Brag about their money?
  42. Have affairs/cheat on their spouses?
  43. Sleep with the radio or tv on?
  44. Over aircondition their homes?
  45. Not recycle even though it’s readily available to them?
  46. Feel that they are above the law?
  47. Run for office for the wrong reasons?
  48. Think that George W. Bush was a good president?
  49. Seem to not be concerned about wiretapping or torture?
  50. Seem to not be concerned about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died in the war?
  51. Keep pitbulls and other dangerous dogs?
  52. Dress their pets up in clothes?
  53. Leave their estates to their pets?
  54. Treat their pets better than their aging parents?
  55. Bully others?
  56. Spend more time online than off?
  57. Stay in unhappy marriages or relationships?
  58. Keep friendships with toxic people and then complain about them?
  59. Vote for corrupt politicians?
  60. Buy expensive purebred pets when there are plenty of pets at shelters?
  61. Cheat on their diets?
  62. Procrastinate?
  63. Seek immediate gratification over long term success?
  64. Feel threatened by others’ successes?
  65. Feel threatened by others’ alternative lifestyles?
  66. Restate the obvious?
  67. Overschedule their kids and stress them out?
  68. Not put their little kids to bed at an appropriate hour?
  69. Abuse or hit their spouses?
  70. Get bad perms?
  71. Over pluck their eyebrows? Don’t they know they don’t grow back after awhile?
  72. Skip breakfast even though it’s good for you?
  73. Not clean their homes?
  74. Leave messes in public restrooms without regard to the impact on other people?
  75. Spend all their extra time helping others but not attending to their own needs?
  76. Spend all their time attending to their own needs and not helping others?
  77. Allow a health problem to get out of hand before going to the doctor?
  78. Allow children in this country to go hungry and without medical care?
  79. Allow our veterans to be marginalized?
  80. Believe that any criticism of Israel is equivalent to anti-Semitism?
  81. Try to convert other people to their own religion to “save” them?
  82. Believe that the world was really created in 7 days?
  83. Spend too much time tanning?
  84. Drive unsafely?
  85. Care so much about what another person does with his or her own body?
  86. Have bad manners?
  87. Have trouble making small talk?
  88. Not understand the water crisis?
  89. Blindly follow religious leaders?
  90. Blindly follow unqualified politicians?
  91. Profess their faith and then behave in a hypocritical manner?
  92. Violate ethics in business and other areas of life?
  93. Get married to people they don’t love?
  94. Litter?
  95. Get addicted to drugs?
  96. Have no idea where their teens are?
  97. Ignore their instincts?
  98. Not carry a cell phone?
  99. Complain without offering solutions?
  100. Not exercise their right to vote?
6 Comments/0 Tweets/posted in general observations
6 replies
  1. girlslashwoman says:
    January 25, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    My thoughts:
    2. It’s the celebrity craze fueled by long wait list for national adoptions. They need to come up with a better system. It’s not healthy to rip away a child from overseas and plant them in an environment where no one can teach them about their culture.
    5. They’re afraid that they’ll be rejected or they just don’t care enough.
    7. They aren’t very well educated.
    12. They don’t have patience.
    18. They are comfortable and they don’t want to acknowledge that the world is changing.
    26. Because our society is tailored to reward risk and leisure instead of security and hard work.
    48. I have no clue about this one.
    67. They feel like their parents failed them or they want to live through their children.
    74. They weren’t potty trained?
    89 – 92. It’s just the sad state of the world we live in.
    97. They don’t trust themselves.
    100. They don’t appreciate what they have.
    I really like that you made the time to write this list. It was good food for thought :)

  2. Pamela Rosenthal says:
    January 25, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    That’s cool. Thanks so much for your responses!

  3. Rachel Levy says:
    January 25, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    Great List! How long have you been keeping this running? Or did you write it in one sitting??

  4. Pamela Rosenthal says:
    January 25, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    it was in my head…just popped out! :-)

  5. Mother Shaffer says:
    January 26, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    Very bold, Pam. Always impressive when someone makes their stance on some controversial subjects public. Bravo.

  6. Pamela Rosenthal says:
    January 26, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    Thanks Mother Shaffer. Some of these are opinions for sure. I guess that was obvious :-) But, some are just observations and things that we all do…like procrastinate or cheat on diets. etc. thanks for commenting!

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