Run from the Fuzz and Avoid the Slammer

So I received this email a couple days ago.

I was and am absolutely appalled at this email; at first, I thought it was a joke. But there are other legitimate vacation offers within the email. I decided to write Kayak a letter. I expressed to them my disgust at their ability to exploit something that is not 'fun', and doesn't end in drinks at a hotel relaxing for many individuals/families/children/elderly people who try to get into this country by 'border jumping'.

Whether you agree or not with illegal immigration is irrelevant. What should piss you off is that someone finds it 'funny' enough to create a fucking *vacation package* out of it. What does this say about that company? Or the people who participate in the 'tour' as guides? Or the people who *take* the fucking tour? It says to me that they're out to make a buck by making light of something that ends in death for many of these people.

My dad is Mexican. My brother and sister are bi-racial. Much of my dad's family still lives in Mexico. My father's parents busted their asses to become citizens and raise his brothers and sisters here. We have traveled to Mexico to learn about the country and the culture and history. I grew up hearing ignorant neighbors calling my sister and brother racial slurs. I have picketed my father's place of employment for some stupid twat who called him a racial slur and was going to be promoted and become his supervisor (she subsequently left the day I picketed and never came back). I have seen and heard my fair share of ignorance from people in regards to disrespectful words and actions. This vacation 'deal' really takes the cake.

After writing the letter to the company, I got the generic auto-response:

Thanks for your feedback

Hello, I'm the CEO and Co-founder of Kayak.

We're a new company with big aspirations. Simply put, we want to help people find and navigate the wealth of travel information that's available on the web.

I personally read every email we receive from consumers like you. Why? Because we rely on your feedback to help improve Kayak. We have fewer site bugs, better features and functionality, and more accurate hotel and merchant ratings as a result.

Thanks for taking the time to write to us.

Steve Hafner
CEO and Co-founder, Kayak

We'll see if he actually responds.

In the meantime, if you feel so inclined, please send this company a letter expressing your disappointment/anger/outrage/disgust. I wrote that I felt an apology to the people of Mexico should be placed on their website. Maybe if enough people drop them a line, they will.

passive aggressive bullshit

Dead as dead can be,” my doctor tells me
But I just can’t believe him, never the optimistic one
I’m sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, “You disappoint me,”
Maybe you’re better off this way

Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability
To become…my perfect enemy…

Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe
Someday I’ll walk away and say, “You disappoint me,”
Maybe you’re better off this way

Maybe you’re better off this way
Maybe you’re better off this way
Maybe you’re better off this way
You’re better of this…you’re better off this…
Maybe you’re better off!

Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe
Someday I’ll walk away and say, “You fucking disappoint me!”
Maybe you’re better off this way

Go ahead and play dead
I know that you can hear this
Go ahead and play dead
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
You fucking disappoint me!

so i'm listening to this song, and it brings me reeling back to a definitive moment in time where i was betrayed by someone. betrayed for no particular reason, and not because of anything i've done. i'm no victim, be assured; neither are they. but for some reason, this song made me angry. i think because there are a few of us out there who have no answers, and all questions. and the person who could answer them is too much of a fucking pussy to answer them honestly, and would rather skulk around in the background, trying to continue to stir the pot and play the victim.

it pisses me off that someone i am supposed to be loyal to the death for would throw me away for a stupid lie; for a facade. that they would do the same to a friend. it's the inequity of it that bothers me, not so much that it happened directly to me. just that it happened, and for no apparent reason.


go ahead and play dead.

you fucking disappoint me.
passive aggressive bullshit.