Why I hate America!

[Alysser]

Richard i don't think America is alone in it's laziness, we down under are almost as guilty,if we are not it is because we just have not got all the fancy gadgets you have available to you, but honestly we probably have most of them these days too,the old saying comes to mind "only in america", it is a sad fact of life today, we are all getting lazier by the minute thanks to technology.

Yes do remember not all disabilitys are visible,and i have seen time and time again people taking disabled parking, but as i suffer from something myself that is invisible to people i remember that and think maybe these people are the same, however here in NZ we have to have special stickers to put on our car windows, if you have not one of them , then you are not entitled to disabled parking, i myself am eligible but have not taken up on it, i can just imagine the looks and abuse i might get as i look perfectly fine.

I agree with you 100%. While some third world countries probably don't get the gadgets we get, I think most countries do, but we have more. SO alot of countries are taking the guilt trip with us.

I am also eligible for a handi-cap parking pass thing, but I don't really need it.

[catnapper]

I'm not surprised in the least. Didn't "The King of Queens" do a series of shows about this same thing? (I don't know since I don't watch the show, just saw the previews)

Anyhow, think about it. We've been slowly getting lazier and lazier. These are things I did as a kid that I don't do now (not just me, everyone I know too)
* Flush the toilet by myself in public - a seeing eye does that for me. Sometimes they turn water on and dispense paper towels too.
* Roll my car windows down. I push a button now.
* Get up and change the tv channel. I push buttons nows
* brush my teeth using up and down and circular motions. Now I have an electric toothbrush.... a fews ago the little spinning head wasn't spinning and I stood at the sink thnking "oh no, now what am I gonna do?!" and then reality kicked in: brush like I used to!
* How about the new washers that wash AND dry. Really, how hard is it to remove clothes from the washer to toss into the dryer? 1 whole minute? And what about clothes you don't want to shrink in the dryer?

There's more but I'm not particuarly inspired today.