Railing against minor irritations is like falling out with your partner, then picking fights, over and over, for the sake of it. And when has that ever helped?
There’s a man in Colorado who, it’s safe to say, is pretty irritated by the noise of aircraft approaching and leaving Denver airport, 30 miles from his house. How irritated, exactly? In 2015, he made 3,555 complaints out of 4,870 received by the airport, according to a new research paper. And he’s not unique. Five people made 61% of the complaints about Portland airport, and in Washington, DC, “two individuals at one residence” clocked up 6,852 complaints in a year against Ronald Reagan Washington National airport. (About the noise, I mean. No word on how many complained about it being named after Reagan.)
As an inveterate maker of official complaints myself, I confess to some admiration for these moaners. Yes, I know the adage that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, while expecting different results. But there’s a cosmic defiance here that I respect. The world may be enraging and absurd – yet at least someone has the self-respect to keep protesting against that fact.
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