Joey Broyles: MAKE ME FAMOUS

So here is what happened kids! Welcome to retail drama. It’s the same whether it be food or furniture.

Christine believes that because she saw one person get something taken out the front door that she has automatically earned this privilege to get shit taken out the front door only.

She came in to pick up her two chests and I said to her the usual thing I say to all our customers, “Okay I’ll get those ready in back. I’ll have you pull around to the back garage door and we’ll load up.” Most people find this to be a reasonable offer. Not Christine.

“Why I gotta drive around to the back?! You always tell me I gotta go around the back. And I see other people get their stuff brought through the front door.”

I am snappy! “We always have people pull around the back. It’s nothing new. We have on occasion taken stuff through the front door because it was right next to the front door. Your stuff is in back. That’s why we have you pull around to the back…”

She interrupts, “Ah hell no! That ain’t true you take it out the front. I don’t need to go round the back! You gon take it through that front door like you do for all the customers. I ain’t goin round to the back!”

“Well we usually go around to the back because it’s faster and there is less stuff in the way to bring it to your vehicle. But if you insist we’ll let you get it through the front door because you are a princess!”

“Oh I’m a princess! Okay den! I’m a princess!”

“Yep. Meet you out front,” incoherent mumbling and swearing under my breath as I walk hurriedly to the back.

This whole situation is absolutely ridiculous that she wants the shit to go through the front door. What’s fucking stupid is that it doesn’t really matter, other than I have to make sure not to hit the maze of furniture on my way up. It’s really the principle of the thing, we make all our customers go through the back door. Exceptions of course if it is right next to the front door or if they pick up a floor model before we get it taken down and put in back. I will tell you right now I do appreciate her business, I just don’t appreciate her fucking attitude. Of course I’m obviously guilty of attitude as well, but I digress.

I cart the first of two 5 drawer chests, wrapped in plastic and cardboard, up through the front door, which Christine kindly opens. Magically her attitude is completely gone because like a princess she has gotten her way. She may think because she is bigger and louder than me that she can get her way, but honestly it just takes too much energy out of me to even care. I’m wasting enough energy writing about it as it is.

I cart the second chest through the front door and the gentleman helping Christine says, “Ain’t you gonna help load these.”

I snidely remark, “Well usually that’s a back door special but sure I can help you load it.”

We say are goodbyes and I really don’t think any of this would have been a big deal if Christine had been a kind person. But she was rude and defiant and didn’t care to hear me speak, she just wanted her way or no way. Christine was completely capable of driving her vehicle around to the back garage door, like every other customer. Maybe that’s just how she was raised, “be completely difficult and make everyone do cartwheels for you because you are a princess!”

I’d be happy if tomorrow when I wake up, health care, in America would be free, instead of striving for “affordable health care”. I believe in my president and I voted for Obama, but I think it’s time we make some hard decisions. Decisions that will make some people lose their jobs, but in the end it would be worth it. I think it’s time that The White House scrap this health care plan for a free health care plan. Why are we one of the only free countries in the world without a universal and free health care plan?

Is there a conspiracy for population control in America? Or are there just some people out there that want to keep on getting richer. Even though I believe in some conspiracy theories, I don’t believe that the government is refusing to switch over to free health care because they want to control population growth. What I do believe is these insurance companies are crooked, the doctors are making way too much money for 7 or 8 minute consultations, and people without health care are going broke trying to stay well. This sort of thing would not happen in other countries which provide their citizens with free health care.

For those who don’t know what it’s like not having health insurance let me give you an idea. I was diagnosed with acute bronchitis in December. The doctor prescribed a number of things including an inhaler to help me breathe better. The total amount for drugs was about $160, out of pocket. The total bill after seeing this well educated man for 8 minutes was about $360, out of pocket. That means my doctor charges about $45 a minute. Do you know anyone else who makes that much? Granted not all of that money will go to my doctor, but it certainly feels like a lot of money to pay someone to make it all better. The argument of course is can you put a price on your well being? Yes, $500.

Imagine you are a parent with no health care and you make too much to qualify for any sort of state help, but you don’t make enough to pay $1,000 for two kids who get really sick. Of course you should have health insurance, life insurance, home owner’s insurance, car insurance but how do you afford to live after all these insurances? How does anyone stay well and get ahead in a country like America? The truth is this is where some of the poverty comes from, not all of it, but some. You go broke trying to fix your kids broken leg because he fell off a slide at the park.

Now I’m not here to pick on insurance companies. I’m here to pick on this health care issue. America needs free health care, since all these taxes you charge us, a large percent we will never see again, why not have the taxes go towards health care. Forget about my social security because we all know that money doesn’t grow on trees and there’s no social security left for the youth of America. Why do you think 401k’s exist?

Anyway the whole thing frustrates me because I fear going to the doctor. Not because I’m afraid of going to the doctor, but I’m afraid to open my mail and have a heart attack over the bill. That fear is unnecessary but it’s there because health care is about making money and not about making people better. Sure doctors become doctors to save lives, but their sworn oath only provides for those who have the coverage or the money!

Bottom line here is give us free health care because we’re Americans and we deserve to get more back than a tax return. I don’t need a tax refund, I need free health care!

Thanks for reading.

Joey Broyles
American Citizen since 1983

Too tired to blog! Here’s a vlog!

To watch this video click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=980OjuDlJVQ

To watch this video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/qhvECkY0zIE&hl=en_US&fs=1&

What’s wrong with this ad?

I see three loving couples posing on a beach or something. What I do not see is the end of the world, which apparently OneMillionMoms.com would disagree. I don’t think that an Armani Exchange ad is going to ruin the nation or cause five year old’s emotional distress. Further more the ad that pictures two scantily clad homosexual couples(the problem) and one scantily clad heterosexual couple are going to cause a ruckus. For instance the OneMillionMommies take issue with the “scantily dressed models”, “threesomes”, and of course the evil “same-sex couples”. Apparently sex is so icky to OneMillionMoms.com that they have to replace all the E’s in the word “sex” with asterisks because they live in circa 1950.

What irritates me is that the ad is called “Share The Love” and organizations like this do not understand what love is. I guess same-sex couples only have sex in their opinion. Which is entirely naive of them to think because let’s face it that’s the real reason for the uproar:

Sex. They look at two men in an embrace and it must mean the two men are going to do something sexual after the embrace. Tell me OneMillionMommies when you embrace your child or embrace your husband before they go to work/school does that mean that you want to have sex with them? I would doubt you want to have sex with your husband after every kiss because you know that a successful loving relationship is not based on sexual relations. And I damn well know you would not have sex with a child!

The whole issue just boils down to sex and the worries heterosexual couples have when their child see’s an ad like this of a Tylenol Ad:

Ad reads: “His backache is keeping him up.” “His boyfriend’s backache is keeping him up.” Two men laying in a bed, nothing happening.

Will this scar a child? Have you ever been a child and ran into a room to see your two heterosexual parents (lying naked under the sheets) sitting and talking before the morning coffee? No emotional scars. There is nothing sexual about this until it is attached to that of an adult who is specifically recalling or imagining things with their sexually repressed and dirty mind. Adults have sex. Children play with toys. Adults have developed fantasies, sometimes sexual. Children have undeveloped fantasies about being in a circus.

How do you explain straight crushes between two heterosexual five year olds? Simple: This girl likes that boy. How do I explain homosexuality to my child? Simple: This boy likes that boy. There is nothing sexual going on in a child’s mind.

It disgusts me that people feel that a shirtless woman or shirtless man is considered sexual. We are born innocent and the repressed adults are those who have the biggest impression on the innocent. Why do you think pornography exists? Two reasons curiosity and raging hormones from what your significant other refused to try with you. Adult fantasy, nothing more. (That is a whole other subject, I’m not getting into!)

The point is being gay is not about getting it up the ass! That’s what these sexually repressed Mommies and other affiliates have going on deep in their REPRESSED minds. They are afraid of the unknown or misinformed and are at some points curious: “what’s it like?”

What is like being in a honest and committed relationship with a man? It’s wonderful. It has it’s ups and downs like all relationships. It’s this great friendship where you can share all yourself with another person. It’s not at all different than being in a heterosexual relationship. You share responsibilities, pay the bills, and try your best at carving out your own dreams.

There is no difference between gay or straight relationships. Sex is not a relationship. Sex is an extra-curricular that makes your brain get all out of whack and then there’s an explosion at the end. But sex can also be known as making love. You are sharing the most personal part of your being with another person and for a moment two become one. It is not this dirty thing that people make it out to be. If you ask me, sex is a great thing but it’s not what makes me excited to come home to my fiancé every night. Every night going home is like going to see an old friend that you can’t wait to catch up with after all these years. That’s what sharing love is like for me.

All in all there are all these groups spreading hate. Shouldn’t there be an active counteracting group out there who is just as active? And I don’t mean GLAAD or all of those GSAs out there. I mean someone who is telling these ladies and Fred Phelps what’s wrong with their organizations, since they have no problem doing the same to us and ours. Any volunteers?

Full Armani Exchange Vs. OneMillionMoms.com News Story
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Additional Gay Hating Going On:

Here’s an ad that was rejected by CBS for this year’s Super Bowl. If this were a racial dating thing, it would have been taken to court. But since hating homosexuals is the new hate a race, nothing will happen.

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZCh2H5h8Y

I was very excited to see the release of the iPad and have been reading some reviews and people are being such naysayers about it. I think for $499 at 16GB, it’s a better deal than a Netbook. Why?

Let’s start with it’s built better and will have the longevity that a netbook does not have. (Provided you don’t smash the iPad with a hammer.) I don’t know anyone who owns a working PC that is more than 5 years old. My father owns a Mac from 1994 and it still runs with all it’s glory of a 256MB Hard Drive. Apple products are built to last.

You have just as many functions on the iPad as you do a Netbook. What were netbooks designed for? Light and easy to travel for easy internet access and maybe some word processing. Well are you strong enough to carry something that is 1.5 lbs? Yes. Can you go online? Yes. Can you word process? Yes. If you can get over having a physical keyboard and trust the touch screen keyboard, it will work for you.

Regarding the lack of a camera. Why does everyone want a camera on every damn piece of technology these days? There are enough amateur photographers out there as it is and I don’t believe that putting an iSight camera on the iPad improves it. If you need to conference use your laptop. A lot of this technology is stilling being developed and frankly the critics expectations are too high.

Regarding comments such as the “iPad is a glorified iPod Touch or iPhone” is hilarious. Well if the iPad had came out first there would be a whole lot more ooohs and aaahs, but it didn’t. This touch technology is becoming even more important and giving us more at the touch of our finger tips. I think that the first generation iPad is good for what it is and Apple is smart to leave room to grow, improve, and invent. The iPhone was starting small.

The possibilities of this gadget and improved versions of it in the near future are endless. It is very forward thinking for as much as people may not be impressed. Think of the uses for schools and specifically text books, “Everyone pull out your iPad.” Less clutter, less crap for kids to haul around in their backpacks. In many ways I look at the iPad as a new multi-tasking notepad or journal. And with WiFi it’s even more amazing, “Please turn on your Bluetooth and upload your assignments to the main computer.”

The iPad is magical and for someone to think it’s not, it just shows your lack of creativity and forward thinking. If you do need a clunky keyboard and a cd burner and whole bunch of ports… Save your money and just buy a regular laptop. Why on earth would you buy a netbook? Just get a laptop and may I recommend not buying Dell. I personally would buy a Mac. Of course everything comes down to price with people and that is the battle of Mac vs. PC. But let’s forget netbooks altogether they remind me of mini-cds: small and easier to forget about.

Research yourself on Apple.
Tech Specs
Pricing
Design and Accessories

After Thoughts: iPad vs. Kindle.

My brief thoughts on this matter. Up until now I thought the Kindle was neat, but I still prefer to buy a physical book that I can hold in my hands and feel the pages. But if you are considering a Kindle I would say try out the iPad in March before you go blowing $259 on a really expensive digital book that you can read. The iPad does more than the Kindle. I would feel happier spending $499 on something that at least does more than reads books and Word Documents. Seriously in that case you are just better off buying one book at a time.

45 minutes of the elliptical machine.

4.12 miles.

I’ve been working out for a month but have really only but 8 real work out days out of 21 days. I may be making small steps, but I am feeling much healthier already.

Also got a hair cut so that’ll throw everyone off with the weekly face picture!

Weekly photo:

Day Seven

45 minutes of the elliptical machine.

4.16 miles.

Weight: 190 lbs.

Just keep going!

Sunday’s workout was interrupted by a Furniture show in Chicago. Ca la vie.

Day Five. (Tuesday)
45 minutes of the elliptical machine.

4 miles.

Day Six.(Today)
45 minutes of the elliptical machine.

4.02 miles.

Here’s the Weekly photo:

So this year so far I have not made any other videos other than this one at work. We had a crazy man customer in and well, you’ll see after you watch this video. This is a rare video of me completely losing it. I had no idea I had every laugh known to man stuck inside of me. I’m telling you this crazy man was bat-shit crazy. He is sure to influence many a video in the future. Watch it:

In other news I’ve been doing a lot of cartoon drawings which started with Lady Gaga. Now I’ve done one of my boyfriend and one of my friend Monica. I think they look pretty cool. I’m still an amateur, because I draw that on a computer and not on paper. I’d say about six months ago I could not have done these kinds of graphic drawings at all! I have to say that by the time I got to work on Monica(which is my newest piece) I think I’ve found my niche. Check it out:

I made a lot of goals for myself this year but I’m pretty excited for the unexpected things I’ve done that were not on the list. But I still want to write and produce a follow up to my Google Me song. I will start that next Tuesday.

Until then Bitches!