Rants and Raves

I'm thinking too much again. Please go to the blog to make comments so we can all share. http://www.chrischat.blogspot.com
Here's the latest.
1. We're sitting at a light after church waiting for the light to turn green. My kids ask why they are smelling cigarette smoke. We look over, and there is a car next to us with the window half open and the people in the car are smoking. Our windows were open too, since it was such a nice day. Why do smokers think it is ok to pollute our air with their hundreds of carcinogenic particles they put into the air? Are they really not aware that they are hurting other people? There are very few places a person can light up and not affect someone else, so I think these are valid questions.
2. Is a part-time band director a semi-conductor?
3. Why are parents so unaware of the defiant, rude behavior of their kids towards their teachers? Even if I correct a student's behavior in class, I get attitude as if I'm wrong to try to help them become a better person. The language is unbelievable too. Do they really speak that way at home? If so, are Mom and Dad doing the same thing?
4. None of the girls at the high school think the boys look good in saggy pants, so why do they keep wearing them?
5. Why isn't the county going to pay for our recyclables? They make money from all this stuff, don't they?
6. Is everyone trying to eat at home more like us, since the price of everything is so high we can no longer afford to eat out much?
7. Do people in our school district have no understanding that we are already on a very lean budget, and that there isn't much to cut other than textbooks, teachers, security staff, busing and admin? Are they aware that teachers had no to little salary increase for three years until last year, and that we are still behind in trying to stay up with the cost of living? Do they know we once again will have no raises? Why are people so unaware?
8. Why is Fred Weber still in business in South County? Is the company not aware we'd all like to see them leave and stop polluting our area with toxic fumes and toxic run-off into the Meramec?
9. Good Friends are like Angels in my life.
10. Dogs are love-sponges and everyone should have one, except the morons in my subdivision who let them bark all night long.