Life: The Point System

[indigo_rose99]

We should accumulate points.

Points for every time someone cuts us off in traffic and we don't honk or yell rude names.  Points for letting someone into the line of traffic.  Points for giving away the bus pass as we leave the city.  Points for allowing someone else's dog to slobber and shed on our favorite coat with a friendly smile.  Points for cooing at the ugliest baby in all creation.  I, for instance, should be gaining points rapidly as I type this and the small child behind me kicks my seat.

And we should lose points, too.  Cutting off someone in traffic when we could have been both legal and polite...  My one look at the mother behind me cost me at least a point or two (it was NOT a glare, thank you, my glares are angrier. ....Though she obviously took it that way.).  And the guy in front of me loses a point for leaning back his seat, then either leaning forward or standing up.  Clearly I would lose several points if I pushed his seat back upright while he is gone. 

I'm sure I accumulated thousands of points for moving my father...  And then being his executrix.  And I'm equally sure I've lost most of them in the many mean things I've said about my siblings and the lack of aid in parental care.  *sigh*  I figure my life is a slow drift downward of points (yes, I'm far negative).  The best I can do is slow it with unexpected birthday wishes.

Meanwhile, today I continue to accumulate...

Comments

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

You don't lose points for moving his seat back up while he's gone--you lose them for moving it back up when he's NOT gone.