Pay your taxes

I’m not sure why I find it so irritating, but I do. Half of the parking lot at the pool where I swim on wednesdays is marked for staff only. I have been going there at least once a week for over a year and I have never seen the parking lot even a third full. But somehow as a customer I am relegated to the back half of the parking lot so that the staff doesn’t have to walk 10 extra feet. And the spots aren’t even used.

I think there are over ten staff reserved slots. I have never seen more than four staff inside the building at any one time. What the hell?

Thankfully, the city of Atlanta has decided to stop opening the MLK Natatorium on Fridays as part of their “budget crunch”. As such, I have no reason to be there more than once a week and am annoyed half as much. Additionally, during the warm months I bike over to the pool so I won’t even have to park at all.

Still, I have no where to swim on Friday which has effed up my training somewhat. I am amazed that the government has the unfettered gall to scale back public services when they only ever scale up taxes.

We have eight hundred billion dollars to give to banks and people who make crap cars that no one wants, but we can’t deliver your mail or keep the public pool open. Don’t forget to pay your taxes!

Ugh.

This is why I choose to not think about politics. The whole thing only serves to irritate and inflame.