Varifrank: Announcement: I’ve got a little list…

From this day forward, I shall use the perjorative term “toe-tapper” to describe someone I wish to mock. I hope to start a world wide popular movement of anti-”toe-tapping” bigotry.

Been looking for something like this for a while. I’ve used the word “dilletante” in the past and basically get naught but blank stares. My pal Otis is fond of ‘popinjay.’ That’s even more obscure, sadly, yet probably more correct. Toe-tapper is as good as any, I reckon.

Except this — I’m a pretty bad toe-tapper. An example might serve: this morning, I went to the corner convenience store to buy some beer and some ice. I ended up behind the dude buying scratch-off lotto tickets and looking at the Sunday paper and flicking all the Bics and waiting for his girlfriend to pick out her bottle of water. As my patience with morons has withered to zero, my empathy with my fellow human creatures has likeways vanished. Still, I strive to be a gentleman and decent human being. Rather than pull a roscoe and put a slug in him and the cashier (for putting up with this nonsense), my only defense, my last bulwark against homicide, is the toe tap, combined with the steely glare. Of course, none of it works, and I seriously doubt that the moron and his moron girlfriend even noticed, nor would they have cared if it did intrude in their consciousness.

Anyway, point is, we need a delineation, perhaps a re-terming, of the impatient moron-directed toe-tap. Maybe it’s just me?