We must stop demonizing people who fart in public. This has gone on for far too long. It’s a total miscarriage of justice. Farters have been ostracized, shamed and humiliated unfairly. They have had to hide in closets, bathrooms or other places away from sight or smell. It’s time for society to accept farts for what they really are.

Farts are nothing more than gas, or more accurately flatus. They consist of hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane combine with hydrogen sulfide and ammonia. The average person farts 15 and 20-times per day. It’s a natural process that relieves abdominal discomfort, and yet we treat it with distain, banishing the poor farter for doing what comes naturally. This must stop. Farting is the result of a healthy, complex ecosystem in the intestines.
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It’s time to accept farting as part of human nature.

Are you one of those people who always seems to be pushing on the “pull” door or pulling on the “push” door? There’s no need to be embarrassed; there’s still hope for you. Here are several clues to determine if a door you’re approaching is a pull door or a push door:
Check out the hardware. If there’s no handle, then it might be a push door. If there’s a big handle, then it might be a pull door.
Ignore the hinges. Hinges can go either way or both ways.
If you see a sign that says, “Emergency Exit Only Alarm Will Sound” it’s probably a push door but don’t push it.
Some doors have magnetic door holders to keep them open. If you see these holders the door is a pull door.
Push doors must be pushed open. Therefore, there’re usually fingerprints, hand prints, dirt, grease or grime on the door from people pushing it. It’s a push door.
Look for sign that say “OUT” or “IN”.
If you still have no clue, wait for someone heading your direction and follow them.
If no one is going your direction, wait for someone to come from the outside and see if they push or pull.
Here’s a great clue. Usually push doors have a sign that says “PUSH” and pull doors have signs that say, “PULL”.
If all else fails, trip the fire alarm and watch what people do as they exit the building.
Hopefully, these clues will save you from embarrassment. Good luck.
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​I read with interest and article by Dennis Green for the Business Insider, “The 10 Worst Style Mistakes a Man can make, According to Women — and how to Avoid them. He mentioned:
jean shorts (jorts), baggy jeans, inappropriate headwear, improper grooming, fake glasses, socks with sandals, clothes that don’t fit, pleated khaki pants, loud shirts with writing, graphics, or flames, and tucked-in shirts that aren't supposed to be tucked. As usual with numerated lists, he forgot a few. Here are more fashion faux pas: 

1. Cheese head – This is okay in many parts of Wisconsin and at any Green Bay Packers’ game but should be avoided at all other times.
2. Shirtless or shoeless – okay at the beach but not a restaurant.
3. Face tattoos that cover the entire face. This is acceptable in some small groups but not for normal people.
4. Low pants with underwear showing. The style for young folks provided the underwear are clean. If the underpants are yellow in the front and brown in the back; don’t wear them.
5. Painted face and/or chest – just like cheese heads, painted faces and chest are okay at sporting events but not to be worn in public.
6. Suspenders with a belt – this conveys a basic insecurity. Make up your mind, one or the other.
7. Low riding pants with butt cleavage showing (plumper’s pants) – seldom acceptable. Pull up your pants.
8. Food stains on T-shirt – never acceptable.
9. Wearing a football helmet and/or mouth guard. WTF? Did you have brain surgery?
10. Excessive cat or dog hairs – some pet owners might overlook this but most won’t.

If you see yourself dressing like any of these, clean up your act.

I read with interest an article written by Jim Carman and posted in the Military Officers Association of America. He was writing about indicators that you have a problematic boss. He listed someone who is easily distracted or multi-tasking during your initial interview, has poor eye contact, provides terse or shallow answers to your questions, dominates the conversation with excessive emphasis on the boss’s achievements, and comments negatively about others. Those of you that follow my blog know that I always find whatever the authors omit. Here’re a list often additional indicators of a problematic boss:
Your boss:

• now calls you “That Stupid New Guy.”
• slaps you in the back of the head while passing your desk.
• asks you to buy coffee but doesn’t pay you.
• hits on your significant other.
• show excessive interest in your teenage child.
• spends all morning cleaning an AK47 and talking to it.
• spends all afternoon coloring in a coloring book.
• talks to imaginary employees in the room and/or a “Little Me” sitting on a shoulder.
• wants to know if you’re currently satisfied with your current drug dealer.
• asks you to invest in a Nigerian financial opportunity.
• pats you on the butt and lets a hand linger too long.

 
If your resume isn’t current, you need to update it.

A while back, I read on my news feed the 7 Signs You’re Drinking Too Much Coffee. The article listed these symptoms: you feel anxious, your stomach hurts, your heart is racing, you have diarrhea, you can’t sleep, you've got the jitters and you get headaches.
As usual, these types of lists always omit some
symptoms.

​Here’s what the list omitted:

1. You buy coffee colors shirts so the stains don’t show.
2. You plant coffee beans in your garden.
3. Your Starbuck’s bill is more than your electric bill.
4. You sprinkle ground coffee on your omelets.
5. You start carrying instant coffee and spoon for a quick pick-me-up instead of a snack.
6. You start looking for coffee flavoring in all your food.
7. You can smell a coffee shop one mile away.
8. Your teeth turn brown.
9. Use start using a needle to inject the coffee directly into your blood stream.
10. You think hospital coffee tastes good.

If you have any of these symptoms, you may need an intervention.

A while back, I read with interest, “The 10 Worst Jobs for the Future by Stacy Rapacon, Online Editor, for Kiplinger (7/17/2017). The list was based on an analysis of 785 popular occupations, considering their pay rates, growth potential over the next decade and educational requirements. The ten jobs they listed were in marketing, manufacturing and blue-collar workers.Of course, they missed several jobs that are dying.


​Here’s my list of additional bad jobs:

1. Press Secretary for President Trump
2. Chairperson of the Congressional Ethics Committee
3. Food taster for Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
4. Suicide bomber
5. American professor in an exchange program at a university in North Korea
6. Chief of Staff for the POTUS.
7. Javelin catcher for the Olympics
8. Moderator for the Democratic candidates’ debate.
9. Telephone book printer
10. Video and game rental store clerk.

If you have one of these jobs, update your resume.