Click "Don't" Like

As I was scanning the dial for something to watch on the tube tonight I settled on 2 episodes of Carolina Stories on ETV at 8:00 PM. One was about the demise of The Pavilion at Myrtle Beach, and you know what? I don't like that! I don't like that a piece of history and fun for generations will never be again, and think Myrtle Beach is worse off without it. The other episode was about the demise of our shrimping industry here in the South Carolina. How our shrimpers can't compete with cheaper imports and high gas prices. I don't like that! Me and Ashley had some fresh caught S.C. shrimp last week, and they are better than anything you'll put in your mouth from Thailand or China, but you cannot find them much anymore. As I was pondering all of the things I don't like, that have changed about my home state, the list kept growing and growing:

I don't like that Darlington gets only one race in Nascar. 1 race at Darlington is worth 10 in Las Vegas or Kansas. Kansas?

I don't like that it costs a weeks paycheck for a family of 4 to attend a Clemson or South Carolina football game when you figure in tickets, parking, gas and food.

I don't like that I cannot eat more than one serving of fish per week per the state government if I caught it in one of our rivers or lakes because their is to much mercury and PCB's in our water.

I don't like chicken bog without sausage. That's not chicken bog, that's chicken and rice.

I don't like chain restaurants that sell shrimp and grits on the menu yet have no clue of how to prepare them. And they definitely use those nasty, imported shrimp.

I don't like that here in South Carolina, the heart of the bible belt, only 1 in 5, 20% of our population, will attend church somewhere this Sunday.

I don't like that curfews are now needed for our young people because they cannot help shooting at each other.

I don't like orange barrels on seemingly every major road signalling more construction ahead. They appear to now be our state symbol.

I don't like that developers have taken over our coastline and mountains.

I don't like that their is hardly any farmland left in the whole state.

I don't like the lottery, and waiting to pay for a diet Mountain Dew for 10 minutes while someone decides which 2 dollar ticket they want.

I don't like seeing roadside views destroyed by loggers clear cutting hundreds or thousands of acres.

I don't like, well, you get it. And that's just some random thoughts about South Carolina. If we were to go national or worldwide, well; I don't like politicians, 4 hour baseball games, millionaires on strike, gas prices, 100 degree days, the value of the dollar, unemployment rates at 10%, Oprah's TV network, Oprah, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, wimpy preachers seeking to please man, the Yankees or Steelers, people who dis our military, Canada, Georgia, soccer, telemarketers, health insurance costs, country music that ain't country, Rascal Flats, arghhhhhhh! Maybe I'm just growing old and cranky. Ya know, I don't like that either! To be continued...