Overheard a couple of coworkers talking about the local beaches and lakes in various states of opening or closing. Young kid--a good boy, from what I have seen--wants to follow the rules and doesn't want to be That Guy, even though he knows other people are not being so considerate or obedient. Older lady--of whom I am fond but also think she's a bit...of a goddamn fool, frankly--alternated between praising him for this and lightly encouraging him to just do whatever he wants. The "get yours while the getting is good" philosophy, I guess, as a corollary of "nobody else follows the rules, why should I" principles.
Needless to say, I'm not impressed by this "whelp, might as well do whatever the fuck I want!" attitude. It's so weirdly...complacent. Yes, it's rule-breaking technically, but it comes from such a place of social conformity. Oh, look, everyone else is doing this, I will to, regardless of whether it's a good idea. Just this morning, she was talking about reports about people her own age on ventilators, so she swings wildly between taking the situation seriously and just deciding to fuck everything because she's bored.
I'm just so tired of people's irrationality around this. They're afraid but they're going to do stupid shit. They want protections at work but they want to go shopping. It's like...they can't connect point A and point B.
Also, I slept very poorly because my dog wasn't feeling well and asked to go out every hour for three hours in the middle of the night. I spent the day with that shaky, exhausted feeling that verges on a panic attack because my brain is just so overwhelmed by everything at that point. So my patience for anyone's bullshit is probably at an all-time low. I hate being this cranky asshole, but I don't seem to have the mental resources needed to be more pleasant. I have defaulted to my jerk settings--sorry.
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