Gentler, kinder.

Screw that.

I really, really try, but rampant stupidity emanating from others frequently gets in the way.

For instance, some tourists in New York City.

You are not in Kansas anymore…you are walking on crowded sidewalks. That party of 4 can absolutely not walk straight across holding hands and singing Kumbaya.

It will not work in NYC. Neither will smoking cigarettes in Central Park or riding bikes on the byways or on city sidewalks.

No MAGA hats anywhere because America IS great and that slogan is all about white supremacy.

A litany of stupid:

Traffic lights that are not synchronized.

People on speaker phones. My husband and I had a spa pedicure yesterday and during the sacred massage portion of the treatment a self-serving woman was on speaker phone and in a loud voice repeated herself a minimum of six times asking her friend if her puppy was ugly…had she chosen the wrong one. In that moment I prayed that the puppy made a clean break.

The word LIKE spoken every other word.

Mediocre food at high end prices.

Lying politicians.

Bad movies and books. You pay your money and are invested and then realize it ain’t going anywhere.

Drivers who cut you off and honk their horns.

Bad people who get ahead and probably get it.

NY Yankee Giancarlo Stanton who regularly comes to the plate with bases loaded and 2 outs and either strikes out or pops out.

Daniel Jones still wearing a New York Football Giants uniform rather than a McDonald’s or sanitation engineers outfit.

Novak Djokovic winning gold because he is truly a dick. Forget the GOAT. Channel Federer and Nadal.

Anything Kardashian or Melania.

Excessive false eyelashes.

Musk oil worn to theater, Pilates and spin class.

People dropping garbage before they reach the trash can.

Dirty public toilets. I am tired of holding it in.

Mean people. Leave Simone Biles’ hair alone.  She just won tons of gold for your country. The critics probably can’t even get off the couch without assistance and will never attempt the beam or uneven parallel bars.

It’s so unbelievably hot and yet stupid people do not believe in climate change.

trump supporters who do not dig deep into Project 2025, Medicare, childcare, education and taxation. Remember the Red Scare in the 1950s and the fear of the communist party having a stronghold in America. Well, you ignorant slurs. If you vote in trump in the next election Red Will Not Be Dead.

Bullies.

Rude people.

Guns in a home with children.

Gum chewers.

Summers Eve nonbelievers.

Unsupportive bras and men (Jon Hamm) who do not wear underwear and tight pants. I have witnessed it up close.

People checking out in grocery lines and after everything is packed up they stand there like dummies taken aback when they realize they need to pay for the items. Same with lines for takeout. Peeps who do not know what to order when they reach the front of the line after standing in line for 10 minutes.

That’s sufficient for today.

Please send your comments if you have any home grown remedies for curing stupid.

My goal is to MASA.