Replies to '08/15 Rude and Crude People'

I realize that playing "devil's advocate" with myself is a bit odd, but whatever.  There are probably other ways with dealing with rude people without resorting to the "Kill Bill" style of vindictiveness.  How else can I shove a rude person into reality without breaking my foot off in his butt? (Isn't that a lovely image?).  Hmmm....

Once you physically pushed a girl out of the way (interesting that you chose 'the little one') you became part of the rudeness yourself.  Better to give people the benefit of the doubt.........they were involved in looking at themselves in the jeans (after all, it was a fitting room), and probably didn't even notice you.  They also probably didn't hear you when you said 'excuse me.'  You could have laughed, smiled, and tapped them on the shoulder, and said 'let me in girls, please!'  They could have still been rude afterwards, but you could be the one smiling and being pleasant.  Better that they end up with the ulcers instead of you.  

 

You had no more right nor less right than those two girls for a place in the dressing room.  And they were there first.  Sounds like you have a sense of entitlement yourself. 

 

Don't get me wrong, I get ticked off too at other people's insensitivities.  However, I have also been yelled at by people because they thought I had done something wrong, when all the time I hadn't heard (or seen) them.  Give people the benefit of the doubt. 

 

    

i realize this is not what you want to hear, but near as I can figure it is just that.  Now do not get upset, this thing that we started was with good intentions.  Remember when the parents or our elders, who we respected without question, would say "I am going to make sure my kids get all of the things that I never had as a kid growing up" or something to that effect.  Well folks that is right where it all started.  There mind set should have been "I am going to make sure my kids know the value hard work a varied education, not what they teach in school that is for sure, so that they will be as productive and responsible, as I, with the time they have been allotted.  I realize that this is statement is verbose and not really in the realm of thinking back then.  How dare I say such a thing, that out parents could not even think like that, come on you are kidding yourself if you think it would have been possible.  My father was as smart as Albert Einstein, as great an artist as Leonardo de Vinci, he worked harder and longer than any ten men in their thirties and forties today, I am talking when my father was in his sixties and seventies.  How is this possible you say, easy that was the way he was brought up and the circumstances that played out in his life in the sequence they did.  I know that there were plenty of other men of his generation that were the same as he.  Yes his generation had it's share of flakes I know.  The thing this RANT (thank you Dennis Miller) is about, common sense, personal pride in one's own self and not how are we perceived by others, but by our ultimate teacher.  This teacher might be a religious representation of the almighty, or it could be as it is with me my parents.  I know I am the luckiest person alive to have been raised by my parents and if I had one wish it would be equal opportunity for all to have the same parents as mine.  Not my childhood though, born in 1927, I survived TB and Scoliosis (my proper height would have been approx. 5 feet 7 inches, I never reached that, right now I am 5 feet 1/2 inch) during my teen years.