"Oh, Lord, I'm Not Ready for This..."

Daddy reads daily:

--The New York Times
--The Daily Item
--The New York Times Online

Weekly:

--The Sunday Patriot-News
--The Sunday New York Times
--The Juniata Sentinel
--The Duncannon Record
--The Newport News-Sun

And yet he still makes me listen to NPR and WITF radio news ON THE LOUDEST VOLUME POSSIBLE both ways whenever I have to drive with him anywhere.

I hate the radio, and I hate our local radio. It's all hateful and angry and bitter and hurts something awful all the time. And it's pretentious and sure of itself and superior and smirking and I hate it I hate it. Damn it. Ruins my entire sense, just having to hear it for two or three hours. It makes everything taste bad and gets inside me and jitters me up and makes me angry. I hate the radio. I'd much rather listen to quiet music, but Daddy needs MORE INFORMATIONS.

Which I think was kind of the cap on the poisonous death angel mushroom of my day, seriously.