The following are incidents caused by our Senior Citizen community. I used to think that they were isolated incidents here in South Florida but I'm sure the U.S. is covered with them. I will cover this in countdown formation...let me begin:


4.) Most old people here are rude as hell. They'll bump into you or hit you with a shopping cart and won't apologize for it. If you're in a busy store like Walmart, and we all know they're busy 24/7, they try to squeeze in between you and the throng of people there and almost knock my daughter down. WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!!

3.) Having to go after them at the Supermarket line. This happens to me quite often. Most of the time, I mean about 90-95% of the time, I will have only one or two things to buy and one of them will cut me off to the line with their shopping carts filled to the brim. Now, most people, including myself, will allow a person with only 1 or 2 things go ahead of me if I have a filled shopping cart. It's polite. But not the Seniors. Oh, no. They don't have to if they don't want to and they take their sweet time putting the items on the moving counter and paying and asking a million questions. When you see another cashier open their register and yell "Next!" you try to go over there but you've been behind this Senior so long that a line has formed behind you and they'll get there before you. So no matter what, you're screwed and might as well wait.

2.) I've been in retail for many years and have noticed that the elderly are at the top of the list for shop lifting above all others. Just the other day at my job, Petsmart, someone will ask me about a certain accessory that goes with an air pump for their aquarium. When I tell them that by purchasing this particular air pump it already includes the accessory, I come back 5 minutes later and see the air pump box opened and on the floor with the accessory missing. Never fails. Also, I'll see the old couples opening merchandise to look through it and when I go back 5 minutes later a few things will be missing.

1.) Absolutely the worst drivers aross the country coming close to an angry drunk behind the wheel. When they drive, they drive incredibly slow at about 15-20 mph...while practically on top of the wheel. How can they possible drive like that?! I tried it once in my neighborhood. Moved my chair up all the way against the wheel and almost crashed immediately. You have no chance of reacting to something unexpected. What else? They constantly mistake the accelerator pedal for the brake pedal. I'm so tired of hearing about some old person that drove through a business or someone's house, or that particular open market in some small quiet neighborhood. Plowed through I don't know how many people including children for 3 whole blocks. Same excuse. "I thought I was pressing the brake pedal." The worst? A little girl got hit while riding her bicycle....ON THE SIDEWALK!! By none other than one of our beloved senior citizens. I'm sorry...but if I can't drive when I'm old because I can barely see or I can't react quickly enough to divert an accident, then I won't drive. Better than taking a human life.

Sorry, it's just that Miami sucks and it's full of rude, ignorant, beligerent, and greedy people. Can't wait to get the hell out.

I must say that when I first heard about Sylvester Stallone's interest in making another Rocky movie I was a bit skeptic and immediately thought that a lot of people would take this as a joke. But when I finally read a plot synapsis and seen the pictures on set...this is going to be the most awaited movie, for me I mean, since the Lord of the Rings trilogy or Superman Returns. This is not a biased opinion on my part because of the fact that I'm a huge Sylvester Stallone fan, as well as the Rocky series being on my favorite movies list, but if you look around on many a forum, a lot of people are excited for the next installment of the Southpaw underdog from Philadelphia.

Plot Outline:
It's been years since Rocky has stepped into the ring. His wife Adrian died many years before and he's an embarrassment to his son who works for a big corporation and doesn't have time for him. He's alone and still living in the old South Philly neighborhood running a restaurant named after his wife. He goes about his days just telling stories to his customers about the old days, taking pictures with fans and signing autographs.
One day after seeing a virtual fight which depicts different fighters from different eras compete against one another in a simulated ring contest. One matchup pits Southpaw slugger Rocky Balboa against current heavyweight champ, Mason "The Line" Dixon. The computer recreation's result is that Rocky (in his prime) would have beaten Dixon.

Rocky then gets pumped up and starts exercising so he can jump back in the ring for some local low-level fights. But after seeing the virtual fight, Dixon and his entourage bring an offer even Rocky can't refuse. What is supposed to be a simple exhibition bout turns into the fight of their lives. In one corner, Dixon wants to prove that he is not just a "paper champion" fighting what the boxing community considers unproven opponents. In the other corner, Rocky follows his instincts and his dreams to show that he still has something to contribute despite his old age and all the beatings he took over the years. He's alone, his old neighborhood has changed, all his friends are dead or retired and he decides that he will take this one last shot at being the best at what he loves dearly, even if it means his death.

Trivia:
-Burt Young will return once again as Paulie
-Bill Conti will return to compose the music for the movie. He also composed the music for the first 5 movies.
-Tony Burton will return to play Tony Duke, Apollo Creed's old trainer to train Rocky.
-Mr. T will make a cameo appearance as Clubber Lang.
-This will be the fourth decade in a row to have a Rocky movie. Rocky and Rocky II came out in the 1970s, Rocky III and Rocky IV in the 1980s, and Rocky V in 1990. Rocky Balboa is scheduled for release on December 22, 2006.

That will be a great Christmas present for myself. In this day and age with everything that's wrong in the world, it's great to have movies of self-achievement like this come out. I can't wait until I have a son and be able to show him movies like the Rocky series, the Superman series, the Rookie, and Cinderella Man. I must say...for a guy that's 60 years old, he looks a lot better than most, if not all, people I know especially at that age.

It shouldn't be funny but it is...