I'm allowed to vent, right?

1.) I walk past people and needles and drug deals and screaming and swearing and just general unhappiness and restlessness every time I go outside. It scares me and it should scare our government. These people need real help. I don't know of any significant action being taken at any level of government besides reversing services and cutting budgets that have been in place for years. The problem is not getting smaller, it's getting bigger, very quickly.
What really scares me is the effect it is having on other people. People in the building I work in are expressing resentment, anger, annoyance at these people and I see how it is creating a huge split in the community.

2.) I'm in line to buy something. Someone ahead of me turns in their lottery ticket and the little song plays and then they spend however long they feel they need to playing again, and maybe even again. If I got to the front of the line, bought my shoe polish and then paid for it, and then I decided I wanted to buy a can of tuna, I would have to leave the counter, go find my tuna and then get in line again. That is what these people should do. Or I know, don't waste your money gambling with the government... you won't win.

3.) Someone stole our Safeway club number and now every time I buy something they say "Thank-you Mrs. Johns." So my name is Iris now. It's really annoying. Is she redeeming our points? Was this her plan all along? Was she behind us in line one day and heard us quote our number and then decide she would hack into our Safeway account? And I tried to change it back... we have to get a whole new account and give up what points she may have left us with.

4.) I was buying some groceries and the guy put my 4 items in to a plastic bag (I was already choked that I had forgotten to bring my reusable bag) and then tied it into a tight knot. I was pretty annoyed about that... inner monologue "how can I get into it without ripping it... I won't be able to use it again... why did I forget my effing tote-thing? it's right by the door, I knew I was going to the store..." Then, he got another bag and put the bag he had just packed and tied up into another bag and started to tie it. I interrupted the conversation I was having with myself and stopped him. He was pretty upset... I guess he was on some sort of roll.
Here's a conservative assumption:

Extra grocery bags per customer (average): 2
Customers this guy bags for each day (average): 50
Shifts per week: 5
Weeks per year: 52
2 bags x 50 customers = 100 extra bags/day
100 bags x 5 = 500 extra bags/week
500 bags x 52 = 26,000 EXTRA bags/year.
And that's just that one guy, in that one store.

I work for waste diversion in our region. I know that the plastic bags aren't a pressing volume issue in the landfill. But still... come on.