Matt of All Trades blog, like the title suggests, is by a Vermont author and offers offbeat musings on pop culture, media, journalism, humor, weirdness, stupid people, smart people, my life as a journalist, landscaper, photographer, married gay man, dog lover and weather geek and more. It's run by me, Matt Sutkoski, a native Vermonter living in St. Albans, Vt.
Police said this women was driving to her wedding but was drunk behind the wheel.
At most weddings I've been to, there's been a fair amount of drinking. Which is great, because it's a celebration! I'll drink to that!
Like most people on their wedding day, both my husband Jeff and I were stone cold sober, each surely with a blood alcohol content of 0.0 percent before and during our vows nearly six years ago.
I can't guarantee the same for later that day, during the post-wedding celebration.
You want to - pardon the pun - drink in the moment of your vows, and it's easiest to do that while sober.
A bride in Arizona didn't think so. She was drunk before the wedding, which led to a highly embarrasing and dangerous situation:
Police said she was drunk behind the wheel, and in March caused a crash that sent one person to the hospital with what thankfully turned out to be minor injuries.
Though police said she was on her way to her wedding, and told them that at the scene of the crash. However, the woman, Amber Young, 32, said later that she was not on her way to her wedding that day and was wearing a sundress as she drove to meet a friend for lunch.
You be the judge.
Her attorney said police posted the photo, not as a warning against drunk driving, but to mock Young.
In any event, don't drink and drive, whether you're going to your wedding, or just ready to have lunch.
Alexa, our new Amazon Echo voice activated personal assistant, sits in a central location in our house for easy use. But learning that it can talk a blue streak has me wondering if it should be hidden away when we have company.
The Modereger relatives in South Dakota gave us anAmazon Echo, or Alexa, the voice-activated personal assistant device.
Jeff and I love it!
It's really cool, as many of you who have one know. It answers any question you have, and is a great personal assistant that hooks us in with entertainment, music and news, too.
Thanks Brian and Michelle and all the Moderegers!
We've put it to quick use, asking Alexa all sorts of spur-of the moment questions, many of them absurd, just to see how she would respond.
After a couple failed answers, I asked Alexa if she was OK, and to our delight, she said "Fine, thank you."
A television commercial played the Doris Day song "Que Sera Sera" prompting us to wonder if Doris Day is still alive and if so, how old is she. Alexa assured us that Doris Day is alive and 94 years old.
Jeff was mildly concerned about the weather back home in Yankton, South Dakota on Sunday, but Alexa assured us it was mild (34 degrees) and partly cloudy.
However, we've learned that Amazon Echo can have a few glitches.
In a viral video, a child asked it to an Amazon Echo Dot, one variation of this device to play "Digger Digger." As Consumerist notes, we can assume the youngster wanted to hear one of two chidrens' songs, either "Diggers, Dumpers and Trucks," by Kidzone or "Diggers (Diggers and Dumpers) by Tractor Ted.
Both songs are safely rated G.
However, we think Echo Dot misunderstood the question, and it turns out Alexa talks a blue streak. The viral video is below but beware, the audio is definitely NOT NSFW.
As you can hear, the Echo let loose a string of nasty words, including "dildo" as the adults in the room frantically pleaded with the device to just shut up.
This woman went on an epic 45-minute pro-Trump rant
after a Michael's craft store had the gall to charge
her $1 for a reusable shopping bag
There seems to be an, um, delightful trend among fans of Donald Trump:
A few of them are engaging in incredible, hugely embarrassing pro-Donald Trump rants in which they revel in the Donald's victory, whine about supposedly anti-white discrimination and pride themselves at being allegedly on top of the heap.
Except these people are at the bottom of the heap, given the derision, and punishment these ranters and ravers get.
Then there was the woman who ranted exhaustively for 45 minutes about the anti-white discrimination against her because some black store clerks charged her $1.00 for a reusable store bag Never mind that the clerks in question were charging everyone, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, age or whatnot.
If you can stand it, I've posted a couple of the videos of the rants at the bottom of this post. It's actually fun to laugh at how unhinged these people are.
I love the stupidity of these people. Trump won, the "logic" goes, so they have free rein to spout whatever nonsense they can. Finally! A chance for revenge against the blacks/illegal immigrants/Muslims/gays/liberals that oppressed us all these years!
The ranters forget that there are still repercussions for what they do..They get their 15 minute of internet fame, but instead of fun, they're exposed as fools.
This guy is banned for life from flying on Delta
because of his obnoxious Trump rant aboard
one of Delta's planes recently.
Some of them go on to complain how "discriminated" against they are. The Florida Starbucks ranter, David Sanguesa, said he was having a "bad day" when he ranted, but was still angry at Starbucks
According to the Miami Herald, Sanguesa had this to say about supposed bias against him because he's a white Trump supporter:
"My attorneys want to file a lawsuit. No one saw the first part of the video. I was completely done wrong. I was racially discriminated against. I was refused service. I was wrong to get upset, but I was racially discriminated against. She wouldn't serve me.....She knew I was a Trump supporter and wouldn't give me coffee."
No, actually, they wouldn't serve you because you were being a jerk and bothering everybody else. It's really still OK in America to discriminate against morons like you, Mr. Sanguesa.
Oh, and by the way, the First Amendment still says the government can't tell you what to say and what not to say. But private companies, including your employer? They can pretty much do what they want.
Surprise! Your free speech rights don't, er, Trump our free speech rights to call you out as an idiot.
Take the incident at a Floor and Decor store in Colorado. A gay man named James Shawlin and his four year old son went into the store and were given permission by a clerk to look through boxes of stonework samples to determine which one he wanted to buy.
A store manager came up and rebuked Shawlin for looking in the boxes, and Shawlin basically said, "Geez don't treat me this way. My husband and I spend a lot of money in this store."
That set off the store manager. The manager called Shawlin "the faggot that voted for Hillary," and another customer chimed in to bully Shawlin.
Naturally, Shawlin took to social media to note this incident, and Floor and Decor quickly fired the store manager. I guess Trump wasn't able to keep that store manager's job, huh? So much for job creation.
Delta has since banned the idiot from flying Delta. For life. And Delta gave full refunds to all the other passengers on the flight who were subject to the Trump moron.
Sometimes, the rants are a work of art. The woman in Chicago went on for 45 minutes (!!!!!) about how she is discriminated against because she's a white Trump supporter.
This happened at a Michael's craft store. It's remarkable in the video how calm and professional the store clerk and manager sounded as this woman went on, and on and on.
"And I voted for Trump! So there! What, you want to kick me out because of that!" the Chicago unhinged woman yells. "And look who won! And look who won! And look who won!"
You didn't, lady. You've become a national laughingstock, upper management at Michael's congratulated the store workers for their professionalism, and other witnesses stood up in support of the employees.
