I had lunch with a bunch of friends in Venice the other day.

I ordered a burger. I asked for it to be medium.

It came back like it was still half alive on my plate. I swore I heard my burger moo quite a number of times. I asked the waitress to take it back, and she got frustrated, but she did do it eventually.

On my way out of the restaurant, I was walking down the street. There is a law in California that all traffic yields to pedestrians crossing the street. It is one of the great things about California.

In New York, the law reads a little differently. Pedestrians that walk across the street, take the chance of getting killed by a car, because the car will never yield to a pedestrian.

Anyway, as I am walking across Palms Boulevard, and after Kinney Boulevard, this girl on a bike is coming towards me. I took a step into the street, and she slams on her brakes, because she wasn’t going to stop. She shakes her head, and gives me a dirty look. Now, she might have been 5’3″.

I am 6’2.5″, I am not exactly small.

I looked at her, and I said, nice attitude. She looks at me, and she says fuck you, nice attitude, too.

I don’t know about you, but the way I was brought up, is that if somebody is bigger and stronger than you, don’t fuck with them, because you never know who you are going to fuck with.

Here is a woman.

She doesn’t know who I am at all. I could be a crazy person.

I could be a borderline. I could have a borderline personality, I could go and punch her in the mouth and not even care if she is a woman or not.

But she just decided to mouth off.

It made me think. Why are people so angry?

It’s not like that this is a rare occurrence.

This is something that actually happens on a regular basis.

Where I will feel that aggression, or that anger and frustration from somebody who is walking across the street, or yielding, or not yielding, or somebody behind the wheel of a car. You know, and you honk the horn and they give you the finger, and they are angry.

Why are people so angry? And why do people feel the need to mouth off towards you?

When I was a kid, my grandmother always taught me to respect people. I am not looking for confrontation. I am also somebody who is not going to back down from confrontation.

But it amazes me how many people don’t care if somebody is a male, and they are female. And I notice it is a lot of females nowadays. Females will mouth off to men like there is no tomorrow.

My response to her really should have been, haven’t had an orgasm lately, honey?

It is amazing, how many women will mouth off to men, because they know that the man is not going to do anything. They will literally get in a man’s face, and mouth off to them, because they know the man wouldn’t dare do anything.

But then again, how much domestic violence is out there? How many times do you read about men hitting women?

I’m not saying men should hit women. Not at all.

But when you’re mouthing off to a complete stranger, you don’t know who you’re dealing with. Maybe it’s chivalrous David Wygant. Or maybe it’s the next Ted Bundy.

I don’t know, but if I was a woman, I just wouldn’t be mouthing off all day long to strangers.

I would lose some of the anger.

It is getting old, all this anger, and it’s ugly.