Relative Something

I don’t get why people fail to respond to personal emails. I have begun a project where I conduct an interview of random members of my virtual community, Brainstorms, by email. Is it that they have supplied email addresses that they don’t actually use? Since I don’t regularly email them, have my queries ended up blocked by their spam filter? Is it a way to avoid saying, “No”? I have received 7 replies in the affirmative, 4 of whom have also actually then sent responses to my interview questions. Still waiting on the other three. I don’t know what to think about the complete silence from a few others.

I don’t get why Republican Senators filibustered and blocked a bill to provide 9/11 survivors and first responders with health care and compensation. Just to make that more irksome, the same politicians and their constituency had no hesitation to hastening the progress on assuring the extension of tax cuts for the wealthy.

I don’t get why drivers move into the left lane, but don’t drive faster than the rest of traffic. Why is it an annoyance to have someone drive faster than me? That’s another problem. When I am able to not give a hoot that drivers want to speed by in the left lane, I find myself wondering why other drivers allow a car to ride right on their bumper and don’t make an effort to move out of the way.

I don’t get why we allow the holidays to exacerbate the angst of family relationships. Why do we insist on gathering as families in a time of celebration, when families are fraught with conflict and animosity? Why haven’t we just figured it out and created traditions of gathering among the people who have no aversions toward each other?

I don’t get why I have so many ideas about things I don’t get until it comes time to write them down and then suddenly I can’t think of but a few of them.