RANT that short videos have the sound on/off button on ANY corner. Couldn’t that be standardized? I’m always hunting for it and usually miss a key intro phrase. And don’t get me started on videos that don’t show a duration. Is this one minute, or 20? I just click them off.

RANT to charity emails. Giving Tuesday is out of control. The number of requests in my email grows every year as charities sell information to one another. This year, the volume was so overwhelming that I ended up deleting them all, and I bet I’m not the only one to do so.

RANT to people who insist on getting upset with people who listen to Christmas music before the day after Thanksgiving, or rant about people putting up Christmas decorations “early.” I enjoy seeing the lights; it brings me happiness, and the world sure could use more happiness right now. How about everyone just give some grace to your fellow neighbors and mind your own business?

RANT to dog owners who bag their dog’s poop and then toss the bag in the bushes or the gutter. Who are you trying to kid? I just removed 20 bags of poop from the bushes along the Burke-Gilman Trail. This is a public space! We have garbage collection for a reason. 

RANT to people who don’t wait for the people on the elevator to exit before they enter the elevator. It seems like they don’t even see the other people, and it’s “me first.”

RANT to those who have trashed Seattle’s streets, freeways and green spaces. Seattle will be welcoming thousands of national and international visitors in less than 100 days for the World Cup. Seattle needs to/must organize a cleanup.

RANT to stores that now have antitheft shopping carts. They don’t work! Twice, I’ve had my cart incorrectly stop dead in its tracks as I am trying to leave the store, and I feel like other shoppers are looking at me as if I’m a thief! Now I’m paranoid that it’s going to happen again every time I exit the store, and I’m beginning to wonder if my picture has been posted somewhere. Surely there’s a better way!

RANT and shame to the person who stole the bag of donated food from our driveway on May 9. It was for the postal workers’ annual food drive. Hungry? I would have given you food IF YOU’D ASKED!