ok so i have 2 rants this week. here is the background before i begin.
yesterday night my little sister had some friends over. i know both of the girls she had over and i don't normally have a problem with either one. sometimes though, one of them just gets in a mood where she has to squeal at EVERY LITTLE THING. last night was one of those nights.
i had got up around 5 am that morning to go to a school trip and i got home fairly late that evening. by the time i got home, both of the girls were at the house but they were being good so i left them be. i watched movies until 2ish in the morning and after being awake for around 22 hours, decided to get some rest. as i started to doze off, i heard the most EAR SPLITTING noise i heard in a long time. from down the hall my little sisters friends had decided it was a great time to start squealing and singing at the top of her lungs. i put up with her doing this for a good half hour (hoping she'd stop) before i decided to ask her to stop. so i get out of bed, walk to my sisters room, and ask the squealer to "please be quiet because some of us don't have endless energy and actually have to sleep". at this she quieted down and i went back to bed. around 3am (15ish minutes after i had dozed off) she decided to start singing up a storm with her horribly out of tune and too high pitched voice.
normally i'm the type who is pretty leaniant with people waking me up. normally, that is. but at 3am, brittany spears and madonna just don't float my boat.
so i climbed out of bed, grabbed a
really boring movie out of the movie closet, went into my sisters room, and put it on. before it began i said "because one of you keeps waking me up and it's 3 am, i've decided to let you guys watch an
amazing movie with
character that you guys will just LOVE and if you guys watch the whole thing, i'll let you guys keep singing." and then i left. little did they know it was "field of dream" which, everytime i've watched it, has put me to sleep in the first 10 minutes. it worked like a charm!!!!! i didn't hear a peep out of any of them until nearly 11 am.
so my rant is this... children who don't know how to shut off their freaking squeal button. if it's 3am and you're at someones house and there are people trying to sleep, do everybody a favor and put a freaking sock in it. talking is fine, heck even laughing is fine, but the last time i checked, brittany spears and madonna at 3am at the top of ur lungs in a squealy voice is unexceptable at every house i've ever stayed at. all i ask is that you be quiet and not make me take out my secret weapon, field of dream.
next, also yesterday i was with a bunch of people who i hang out with regularly. most of them are pretty nerdy as well so it's nice to have conversations with them on pressing world issues (example: global warming, world politics, teen pregnancy rates, world sporting events, and the global economy) and normally our debates are very amusing and have humorous ends. yesterday was slightly different though. somehow, one of the regulars in our group brought his girl friend. and though she's is a nice person, she has NO idea what she's talking about.
yesterdays topic was about books that should be included in the lists of the greats (such as toni morrison's novel Beloved) and which ones don't deserve the honor at all (we feel most of Charles Dickens works are over-rated). the trouble started when we started talking about by Daniel Wallace called "Big Fish: a novel of mystic proportions". at the height of our argument, my friends girlfriend butted in and said "but the father was telling lies the whole time so it's kind of a stupid book". we all stopped and looked at her. finally someone asked "have you ever even read the book?" to which she responded "no but it has to be like the movie, books always are".
so my second rant is this: if you haven't read a novel but seen the movie, DON'T EVER, under any cercumstances, say it's like the novel. the only thing it does is make you look stupid. read the novel, seriously!! i mean if you read 50 pages a day you'll be done with it in less than 5 days.