I'm continually amazed at how fast American society has changed in the past and how stagnant it is presently. Even with an enormous change through technology, we are still hung up on some really stupid shit. I'm posting because two issues come to mind.
First, I'm pouring through documents and online forms to determine if I have insurance coverage for my daughter who is probably going to need braces later this year. I seriously cannot figure it the fuck out, and I'm a fucking lawyer. I'm also sitting on an $800 post-insurance invoice from a rural hospital for putting some skin glue on my son's head from when he fell off a swingset out in the country. It was late evening and the local hospital is listed as also the local urgent care. They submitted it as an emergency room visit. I've had a dozen phone calls and nobody will agree with me that the bill is either wrong or complete bullshit. I'm about to just fucking pay it because I'm fucking exhausted.
Second, tipping culture. I liked a local food review group on facebook and half the fucking posts are fights over tipping. I've heard of several studies that show that it is a completely unjust and absurd system. It's biased towards pretty blonde girls and against most black people regardless of attractiveness. It's super arbitrary, why is a server entitled to more because the dish they bring out costs $40 instead of $25? And nobody can agree on what "good service" really is, not to mention all the short handed staffs that get punished because their employers are too cheap to offer a wage attractive enough to get more people to join them. Yet we just fucking stick to it instead of doing what the rest of the goddamned world does and pay servers a decent wage that is included in the price. If the service truly sucks, complain, and the server gets better or gets fired like any other job.
Just blows my mind, especially the first. Everybody hates their health insurance companies, but cloak roomers just go ballistic if any proposal is made to change the system. I just don't get it.