i might as well face it...

i am just NOT a museum person in any way shape or form. every so often i force myself to be what i imagine a good mother is, and go to a place like the discovery science center. today was one of those regrettably awful days :| i knew it was a big mistake while in the line - the radio was playing Raffi and as i covered my ears in agony, i noticed the woman behind was DANCING to it. she was dancing to Raffi and was of child-bearing age, of sane mind and had found someone willing to mate with her :|

the museum was full of such people in fact :| the kind of parents who use the built-in SLR flash, or worse still, their camera phone :| the kind of parents who call wipes "wipies" and sippy cups "sippies" and think their spawn are perfect, but everyone else's children are noisy little thugs (not mine - i was clicking my heels wishing to go home for most of the visit)

every exhibit was overrun with thousands of tiny children scurrying around like fire ants. and it was SO DARK! like 3200 iso dark :| and the exhibits didn't work very well. nor were they even very interesting or educational... sigh, i am sure there is something very wrong with me. i don't like:

• zoos
• theme parks (except super duper empty ones)
• aquariums
• crafts (well i do... but the stress of getting things perfect makes me regret wasting time on them)
  
• board games
• card games
• any kind of party game
• parties in general
• especially weddings :|
  
• sales e-s-p-e-c-i-a-l-l-y black friday
• big cities
• people smoking anywhere near me
  
• parking in LA where carparks are cramped and super busy
  
• crowded restaurants where i can't pick the perfect booth myself
• loud children in crowded restaurants with oblivious parents
  
• busy drive-thrus especially in n out
• target/walmart/costco after 10am on a weekend
• fairs
• parades
• dead stopped traffic merging into one lane
  
• irvine spectrum
• movie theaters
• shows and concerts (and if i must... leaving 10 minutes early is absolutely essential:)

is this normal Dr Phil???!