Messages By: preraph

This is in regards to the woman who stood up to a bully cutting in line.  I don't understand what is wrong with that.  In fact, I don't think it's right if no one does anything about it.  What?  If the playground bullies somehow make it to adulthood without anyone stopping their entitled behavior, we are obligated to give them a free pass?  Dr. Phil mentioned people in Texas carry guns.  Well, I live in Texas, and we don't just lay down for bullies here.  I was in a line at the big superstore last year when a hugely tall man carrying a baby and a cake, with no cart, like everyone else had the forethought to do, came into the long line hurriedly and used his baby to try to cut in line.  Two other people politely stopped him and then he tried it with me, and I told him a lot of other people were also juggling kids and that he should have gotten a cart, just like they did, and he went ballistic on me, and I just had the cashier have security come over.  The big jerk trying to cut in line immediately assumed security was going to side with him because he had a baby and also because he looked relieved when the cop was the same race as him, but he was wrong.  I just calmly told the cop to keep him away from me until I could leave the store, and he did. 

Dr. Phil is right about just about everything, but I disagree we should let bullies get away with it, whether in the store or on the road.  Now, I do understand that you shouldn't be doing free-flowing cursing in the car with kids under any circumstances, but I totally think the people driving bad and being willfully careless and endangering other motorists' lives are by far the bigger problem than the frustrated safe driver who cusses at them after they've had to run off the road to keep from being hit by them.  And I think everyone should honk at bad drivers and tell them to use their blinkers, and that police should hand out more tickets for bad driving, but in our town, there aren't enough police, so people get away dangerous driving on a routine basis.  I back up my rage at people driving bad by going to community crime meetings and writing city councilmen urging better policing of negligent driving habits -- and I don't discriminate WHY a person is driving bad.  I think we need to stop making special rules targeting special groups and just free up police to stop anyone not using a blinker or weaving over the center line because they're on their cellphone or shoving a hot dog in their kid's mouth.