Liz, you’re an a**hole. 

I went for a walk the other day. Nothing special. Just getting some steps in, clearing my head, enjoying the weather.

The kind of thing my doctor keeps telling me to do more of and I keep pretending I already do.

I'm walking past a garden center when this catches my eye:

The label said Liz.

I stopped. I looked at it. I looked around. I spotted a trash can not 10 feet away.  

Now I don't know Liz personally. Maybe Liz is a wonderful human being in every other area of her life.

Maybe Liz volunteers on weekends and calls her grandmother and returns her shopping cart every single time.

But on this particular morning, Liz was an a**hole.

And here's what really got me. It wasn't even hard to do the right thing. That's what I can't get past.

If the trash can had been across a parking lot, across a street, up a flight of stairs,  I'd still think she was wrong. But at least I could follow the logic. 

I've been noticing this more and more lately with the younger generation. Little shortcuts that don't even save any time. 

Leaving a cart two feet from the cart return. Sending a ton of text when a thirty-second phone call would have solved the whole thing. Streaming a show and looking at your phone the entire time.

My wife says I notice these things too much. She's probably right. But I also think when you stop caring about the small stuff, the big stuff starts to slide too.

Somebody had to fish Liz's Frappuccino out of that plant pot (it ended up being me btw). 

Have you noticed this kind of thing more lately? Young people taking shortcuts that don't even save them anything? 

Or am I just a grumpy old man with too much time on his hands?

Enjoy your Sunday!

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