What constitutes a rock in one s shoe?
As the poet Robert Service said, It isn t the mountain ahead that wears you out, it s the grain of sand in your shoe. A rock in your shoe is an irritation. Life is full of them. But it s important to make a distinction between what is an irritation and what is merely an annoyance. If you re on the local train and it stops at every stop, it may be an annoyance, but that s what it s supposed to do. If, on the other hand, you re on the express train and it still stops at every stop or worse, in between stops that s an irritation. It s an irritation because something or someone screwed up (a rock in your shoe is never your own fault, BTW!). This site is dedicated to examining not only life s little irritations, but also its bigger ones the unquestioned rules, the bureaucrats, the hypocrites and the outright lies we are confronted with every day. These are the insidious things that over time worm their way into the very souls of our existence. Like the little stone that gets into your shoe,
