• If your ringtone is going to be an orgasm (ugh, totally lame), turn it off before you are in the midst of a courtroom. Manners, people! (news.com.au)

• London residents panic over chemical spill…I mean, 5-alarm chili! Literally. (timesonline.co.uk)

• Alabama woman: “My motto has been they are going to have to pry this vibrator from my cold, dead hand. I refuse to give up.” Haven’t we all thought that at some point? (TBO.com)

• Father makes 6 year old son chug a beer. Hilarity does not ensue. (tbo.com)

• An Alabama couple celebrates their 80th wedding anniversary. “After all these years,” he said, “I still enjoy being with her.” Does this give us hope or does it make us morbidly depressed? I’m going with depressed. (sfgate.com)

• Ditzy cheerleader bloopers are always a great way to wake up in the morning. (COED Magazine)

Welcome to my new weekly rant. There are too many things we encounter in our every day routines that in reality, if we all quit doing them, would make life a whole let better. Then I wouldn’t walk around all the time rolling my eyes and thinking (often times out loud): “Puh-lease is that really necessary?” (Hence the title of my column)

So each week I will feature something new that we really could all live without. Consider it a lesson in public manners. Your mother will thank me… and you should too.

This week: People who talk (often way to loudly) on their cell phones while at the gym.

Okay people are we for serious here? How am I supposed to lip-synch along with Umbrella-ella-ella if all I hear coming through my headphones OVER my music is:

“No way!! She did? Wow well Jenny got that top two months ago”.

Seriously people, if you can talk that fast while on the elliptical, you probably aren’t exerting your maximum workout potential. So why even bother? Save yourself some energy and go gab with that friend on the other end of the phone over a big brownie sundae. Leave me to workout in peace.

Really I simply don’t get it. You workout for what, like mayyybe an hour a day and you can’t stay away from your cell phone? Read More »