Helper\’s Corner

Why do…?

September 4th, 2006

I’m at work and feeling ill, my throat is itchy, my hands cold, my eyes tired. More…I got up at ten to eight so I was really late for work. The project manager returned from leave today so that probably didn’t give him a very good impression of me, not that I particularly care. I didn’t use my deodorant today and I smell a bit although I have to admit I quite like the smell of my own sweat. It’s very different than the kind of stench you get from others. Maybe because of my diet?

It really annoys me when people stare. Little kids, old men, women, everyone stares except for the shabaab who just stop doing what they’re usually doing i.e bothering females. There was a time when I couldn’t go anywhere without feeling uncomfortable due to someone or the others unflinching gaze and I honestly used to feel like going around with a shemagh wrapped around my face. That’s changed now though, I do get the occasional looks by the old men, children do stare at me in the Masjid and sometimes, like yesterday at IKEA, you do get a girl who’s strangely fascinated by a short heavy bloke with a long beard and long hair and speaks English, sort of like an English speaking yeti dwarf. Point of all this? No point, just wanted to point out that pointing and staring is not good, end of point. Point.

My dad calls me up at work the day before yesterday and tells me that he’s flying out the day after. Nice timing dad, I’d wanted to send a few things for my sister, her husband and her father in law but I didn’t have any time to buy the stuff. My sister is pregnant with her first child and the delivery is expected to be sometime in November or December. Please make dua that everything goes ok.

What I don’t get is why cars don’t have trash cans, really, why not? I mean what are you supposed to do with the tissue paper you’ve just sneezed in or the sandwich wrapper from a fast food takeaway? Do you chuck it out the window? Do you let it slip to the floor and pretend that nothings happened? Do you hold it in your hand until you find a garbage skip? Why? I know it’s not hard to put a small garbage thing in, my Volvo had one, but that’s only because I hadn’t payed the optional third cup holder. Why should my rear car passengers have a cup holder while I’m being forced to hold a snot filled tissue paper in my hand while I drive? And even the way I drive anyone would be mad to attempt to drink or eat anything while seated in the middle row of my car. My dad does but that’s because he doesn’t really care what he gets on my car seats and I can’t ask him not to do it.

I have managed to find a solution to this problem but that requires quite frequent trips to IKEA and having to buy useless junk.. I use their large wonderful plastic carry bags as trash bags. The bags from IKEA are quite large and stiff so they don’t tip over and they don’t collapse. The bag just sits there behind the front passenger seat with it’s mouth open, waiting to receive my snot filled tissue paper and when it’s filled up after a couple of weeks I simply toss it in a skip and pay IKEA another visit.

Another really annoying this is why, why aren’t hooks in the boots of cars standard? Why can’t you have hooks protruding from the roof of jeeps so you can hang bags that should not be tipped over, like, for example the sizzling fish I bought yesterday at ‘The Red Lobster’ I placed the bag in the floor well in front of the front passenger seat and it fell over at a bend, I reached out and placed it upright only for it to tip over again so do you know what I did? I held the bag up with one hand and steered with the other, very safe.

Anyway, people annoy me, they seriously annoy me. Why are so many people just a bunch of half wit morons who refuse to think or even to try and understand what the other person is saying. The moment someone labels you a chauvinist, a sexist, a racist, an anti Semite or whatever other ists exist out there, you know that they’ve closed their minds. And why should people be spoon fed or else they go and make the most absurd connections possible instead of expending the effort required to make logical connections?

To illustrate my point let me give you an example of this kind of absurd connection making. I was debating a sister, in a very respectful manner, the issue of equality between the sexes. I insisted that there can be no equality because we are biologically different and that we have been created to play different roles which require different rights and obligations. In order to show that this does not mean anything bad I said that I refer to this as “positive discrimination”. To further prove my point I tried pointing out that western society, that is purportedly so equal, itself practices this act of positive discrimination. Why can an 18 year old vote and not a 17 year old? Why can an 18 year old drink and not a 17 year old? These are laws designed by the west because they feel that anyone under 18 should not have these rights because it is not appropriate. What about Allah ta3la who has given Men and women different rights because He knows what is suitable for whom? This sister saw red because she assumed I was comparing women to ‘minors’, I was doing nothing of the sort, I was simply pointing out one of the fallacies of western thought, and so she blasts me. She says that she thought individuals like myself were an urban myth and that it’s depressed her to find out that I actually do exist. Will I attempt to clear these misunderstandings? No and I have let her have the last say because I’ve had it, if you refuse to think logically or to provide sold reasoning for your arguments then I will stop debating and will simply smile and nod my head as one would do when a small child tells a tale.

Entry Filed under: Automotive, Contemplations, Misc., My Life