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Hot Takes!

This past week has been filled with school and work, which is boring to blog about. So this week, I thought I’d blog about something a little more fun: my hot takes. I got this idea while driving to work when I was stuck behind a slow driver. This brings me to my first hot take. Some may find this insensitive, but I am not a fan of the elderly. When I was driving, I passed that slow car in front of me, as I do when someone goes 35 in a 55. There are very few things in this life that fill me with such fiery, passionate rage as seeing that a bad driver was an older person. I hear my friends make comments about how bad they feel honking at a car, then finding out it’s an older person. I, on the other hand, have a wave of anger that washes over me when I see that the driver is old.

This is not simply about driving, either. Have you ever gone to Costco in the afternoon on a weekday? Well, I have. Along with the rest of the retired population in Toledo. They’re slow, take up the aisle, can’t drive in a parking lot, take five minutes to pull their Costco card out of their wallet as if this is a brand-new policy. I could go on and on. But to keep this short, and myself from getting heated, I’ll digress and move on.

This brings me to my next hot take, even though this sounds more like things I don’t like: children. Pretty much anything that wears diapers is a no-go for me. Now, it’s not that I don’t like children; I just don’t like misbehaved ones. Same with old people too, truly. The cool, lax older people are fine, just as the kids who are calm. But once they start yelling and running everywhere, you lose me. Also, don’t get me started on the sticky iPad kids.

My final hot take for this blog: I don’t get excited about fall or winter. I don’t think it needs to be snowing outside for it to feel like Christmas. I despise snow, ice and cold weather. I love the holidays, but my hate for the cold outweighs it. So while everyone is excited when the leaves start to change colors, I get irritated that I have to prepare to spend my mornings with frozen fingers, wiping the snow off my windshield for four months.

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  1. Karl SladerOctober 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM

    I can agree with the first hot take, nothing gets me more aggravated than slow old people on the road.

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