There's humor in everything we do -- for a reason.
We are naturally a magnet for others and I wonder why.
When you are sitting in the car doing something, why do people tend to walk in your direction right next to you? Same with the opposite direction. Does it mean we are suppose to help them if they get mugged? Out of fear we may not open the door nor help them (bystander/witness). Why do they also look at you? They know your business is none of theirs.
You are about to open the door and enter the premises when a person opposite walking towards the door...they cut you off and go out w/o a glance back while you "held the door". You really held the door for you. This is annoying! I've now used other doors and shifted myself to surprise these selfish people. Argh.
Why don't people flush the toilet? I think people don't care about their mess and leave it to others' horrors. About every time I go to Cinemark (formerly Muvico), I go through about 10-15 stalls to find a clean toilet and adequate tissue.
On the Metro, a person sits on a seat but on two seats with one their backpack and one them. It's packed and when that person sees you they don't move over. Argh.
When people stare, some are so rude, they think it's necessary and when you look back they give you a disdaining or funny look. Guess they acting pretentious. I might have to put hands on my hips, turn in my seat, and bat lashes repetitively next time.
Why do we want to help others who need help with their problems? Do we have a problem that concurs or resonates with them? If so, it is not our duty to solve their problems, we may give advice if they accept. Don't force it even if you are great friends with them. I've learned my lesson.
What are your thoughts? Are their things people do that you find annoying?
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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yes!
1. how about when you help someone and they do not say thank you.
2. or you have witnessed someone literon the streets
3. and someone is whispering or talking out loud when you are trying to talk.
4. and when you wait in line forever at a store and the cashier says next. then the person behind you goes to that line. ummmmm hello I was here before you.
5. or how about when t he cashier just yells next and not next in line!
6. grocery stores that have one cashier and 6 check yourself lines open. the one cashier usually has someone with all the stores products in their cart.
7. last but not least someone is texting while driving! the worst and most dangerous thing anyone can do, especially on the highway!
I go on, and on, and on about the lack of courtesy/etiquette all the time. You'd think I was 70 they way I talk. And, being north again, I've wondered if it was a southern thing as it can't be generational--I see people my age and up acting rudely--and am floored. And, I'm losing the battle of wills not to say, "Oh, hey, you there, being rude--stop it." I'm going to have another "I'm a crotchety old lady in the guise of a 26 year old" moment: We should teach etiquette in schools. From how to answer a phone, to stand in a line, to how and when and where it is appropriate to use a cell phone (among many, many other things). That, and how to balance a check book and do laundry. Too many college freshman are lacking all of those essential skills.
LJ...I concur. I can not stand when they open another line and someone from behind you jumps over. At my local Giants though, it don't happen like that. they are so friendly and someone will walk over to two or three lines and tell the next person that hasn't put their things on the belt to step over to line number whatever. that's a fair situation to me.
Sorry but i absolutely LOVE self-checkout. As nice as the cashiers at my giants are, I don't always feel like talking to them, nor having the young teeny-boppers bag my cleaning spray with my lunch meat so I can die when I get home. Yeah there's one. I put the store on the belt the way it should be bagged....paper products, cleaning product, can goods, eggs and bread last. why don't you bag like that. is my bread going to the same room as my toilet paper? why put that in the same bag?
as for the bus. I have been know to move a person's bag. Yes and he looked at me like WTH but I proceed to sit my big you know what right on down. Your bag didn't buy a damn seat. If I got to hold my purse, you hold that backpack. Another issue I have with the bus is drivers that know your bus is crowded from front to back but you don't give people time to squeeze through the ignorant people with their legs hanging out in the aisles or the ones that think they too good to suck in the guts a little or the even ruder ones that mumble "damn where you trying to go" ...let's try home so get the heck out my way !!
Tabitha I feel you. But I have always been told I have an old soul and that's why I act the way I do !! My nickname in college was actually Grandma cause my friends said I complain like an old lady !!! Girl preach on about the college thing. My step-son just turned 14 and talking about driving. I said well do you know what insurance is...no. So you want to drive but don't know what insurance is and you expect your father and I to pay for it i guess huh. then he questions how much my son has in savings compared to him. well my son is TWO so Ii save FOR him. you're a young man, why not think about saving for yourself or again I guess you think your father and I are supposed to pay your way through school too. It's sad. it really is. even my two-year will stop "talking" when I tell him to if his sitter is trying to tell me something. These kids of today are just horrifying. I can see why people home school. I don't agree with home school cause I think it takes away from a child's social skills in some sense but I do understand it.
The single most annoying thing about people is their lack of awareness of other people in the vicinity. Talking extremely loudly on your cell phone in a public area, changing lanes without signalling, walking in the middle of the sidewalk, dithering over your order while the line backs up behind you at Starbucks, eating other people's lunch out of the work fridge, taking off early for no good reason so that your coworkers have to stay to cover for you, all this sort of thing comes down to the viewpoint that the person doing these things is the only real person in the world, and everybody else either isn't there, doesn't matter, or should know to defer automatically.
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