Okay. We are not a society anymore.

[Deja Q]

In the car park, sitting there for 5 minutes with my turn signal on, the car pulls out. A person driving the opposite way (toward me) in her little rich snot car turns in. Yes, I honked the horn.

Parents - your offspring should stay with YOU. Don't let them fart around the nearest piece of electronic gizmo to loiter. The game kiosk is not a nanny and shouldn't be either.

Once again, children should not be hanging from the edge of the cart as a makeshift bumper.

Why do stores have cards for the following people:
* Parents
* Mom
* Dad
* Son
* Daughter
* Daugher and son/in/law
* Son and daughter/in/law
* grandparents
* grandmother
* grandfather
* nephew
* niece
* uncle
* husband
* wife
* best friend
even
* concubine

Um, don't aunts exist anymore?

Generation Y is the most socially obtuse generation yet. I love it when these people, in queues, whip out their cell phones to talk to their special friends rather than the people surrounding them. No wonder more neurotypicals now have communication skill problems! Nobody needs to be a genuine autistic, aspie, or crippled by any number of miscreants anymore. Just have a cell phone and the world promptly disappears!

Why do some people grope each others' body parts in public, as if everybody else wants to watch or even participate? And then the same people get all annoyed when people do stare because, even today, most people are too civilized to grope public! The restaurant foyer, shopping market, clinic, you name it, is not a zoo. Animals grope each other in the zoo. We are not animals. I think it's a fair assertion to ask that male humans don't spring wood and chase female ones around, or female humans groping males' bee-hinds. Until they're put in a zoo, let's have some dignity! Once you move there, you can pee on the tree and have the audience laugh at your expense all you want. Which reminds me, I still feel sorry for that baby zebra...

No, don't cave into junior's every whim. Sometimes "no" is a good thing.

Being different means not doing everything your friends are doing because they say it's being different. Nobody learned in the 1960s. Nobody learned in the 1980s. And nobody seems to have figured it out these days either. Well, I did, Devo did, and various other entertainment entities had. Mind you, we're all relics and de-evolved anyway; or so we're told...

Grocery stores - please do not sell spoiled food items at a whiz-bang gold-leaf sticky star 63% off discount. Even a sewer rat in its final stages of malnutrition is not going to eat it (much less not pay for it)!

Walking from the car park to the store's main entrance? Please, PICK A SIDE. Stop picking your nose while slowly pacing up in the middle, preventing every car from getting by your slothy-undead-carcasses. It could be 9 degrees (it was) and you still can't be bothered to move. But we can tell when you've had beans (yes, the telltake "exhale"-like mist was there... yuck.)

Always say "Hello" to people and make a note of who says "Hi" back. Yes, it's profiling and that's evil, but it's fun to see who actually has basic courtesy who doesn't. (Hint: People under 40 are far less likely to respond; those 60 and over are far more likely to respond - unless they're in a senile persons' home or are too (understandably) cynical of today's sadder generations.


Humans are fascinating creatures. I want my DNA verified.

[alarimer]

1. Common courtesy has gone the way of the Dodo.

I could write what you just wrote every single day. I complain daily about the idiots I encounter on the roads, usually on cell phones. And I just love listening to other people's conversations.

[BlueJazz]

3. I can't count the number of times I've walked up to a Cashier, said Hi....

...and been met with a "stare of the Zombie" look.

...and you're right...it's almost always younger people...

[Deja Q]

4. Normally I'll fight against certain stereotypes,

but with gen-Y, there is a partial truism regarding overuse of cell phones.

(I also understand the usual blathering of "In my day, we didn't have cell phones, and I survived". Those blatherers conveniently forget to mention they had pay phones on every corner; pay phones that had cost a dime to use...)

[DarkTirade]

2. I tend to be a little shy so I don't say hi... but I at least give a nod. :P

[lost-in-nj]

5. So,

I guess you went to the bakery for Sunday sweets.....
or was it church????


lost




j/k




:hi: :hug:

[Deja Q]

11. Well

That was yesterday.

The lack of "hi" responses has happened when crossing people in the hallway. People who came BACK from church.

Which reminds us of the old saying "Going to church makes one a Christian just as much as parking one's car in the garage makes one a mechanic."

[Sugar Smack]

6. In addenda, if you cover the public toilet seat with paper so that

your delicate fanny doesn't pick up germs, kindly remove it so that the next person doesn't have to.

Cross the street at a perpendicular, not an extra-long diagonal. You're less likely to get hit/piss off people this way.

Reccommended.:-)

[Deja Q]

10. Great jumping giraffes, you're kidding?

:puke:

People don't flush the paper they sat on with the rest of it? YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice touch with the crosswalk story too (reminds me of the time I was obeying the big red flashing sign reading "DON'T WALK" and getting honked at anyway...) When nobody's around, they can touch themselves in the middle of the road for all I care. But if cars are there, gotta respect them too.

Thanks for the 'recommend'. :) :pals:

[Sugar Smack]

18. They don't. They like to leave it there on the seat.

People are monkeys.

:pals: backatcha.

[SPKrazy]

7. I'd be happy I think

if we all just could speak to each other without being afraid

society is a mess hypno

[carly denise pt deux]

8. I have a beef with all generations when they park their shopping cart in the middle of the aisle

while standing talking to others, glancing at the steam coming out of my ears while I stand there impaitently waiting for them to move, but they just keep on talking. I have actually bumped a couple of carts outta the way, and smile sweetly as they give me a dirty look.
Carly

[Deja Q]

12. I don't blame ya

LOL. Yeah.

Now there are folks who are polite and say "Pardon me" and such, but these days it seems to be a less occurring thing.

[alarimer]

9. And please return your shopping cart to the cart corral.

I can understand if you are unable to (but then you probably should have the person packing the bags help you out with it) but otherwise it is a bad idea to leave the cart in the middle of the parking space. I swear, on woman put hers in the space just as I was pulling into it. It's not like she didn't see me; she was just too lazy and oblivious to put in anywhere else.

I think grocery stores need to put a small deposit on their carts. Like those at the airport. When you return it you get your dollar back.

[Deja Q]

13. Ugh, at the same store where the rich snoot cut in front of me,

there were carts all over the place at the distant end of the car park. There were so few openings, to have the carts sprawled out everywhere made parking even more impossible.

I agree; the deposit routine would be a reminder to do the civil thing.

But then, it's just a buck, so what the fuck... :crazy:

[alarimer]

23. Our giant grocery store has a sloped parking lot

for drainage I guess. And the prevailing wind blows in the same direction, so loose carts get blown into cars all the time. I also have watched a kid (maybe 10 or 11) try to push a cart between my car and her mother's. The space was not big enough, so I spoke up and asked her please to go another way; I didn't want the cars scratched. Turns out I was too late- there was a big ding on my car. I assume it was from that- I guess it could have been something else.

[Evoman]

25. Where I live, a lot of carts have a deposit.

Actually, it helps that Canada has a 1 dollar coin. People will actually take carts back for a buck...not so much for a quarter.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. i will make out with my gf wherever i feel like. it bothers you look at the millions of other

things you could be looking at.

repression isn't civilization. i want to kiss her and we happen to be shopping for cat food, well i will kiss her.

if someone's unloved ass wants to get offended, thats their problem.

you are making judgments of people who see for a few minutes at a time. its called fundamental attribution error. look it up


:eyes:

[CBHagman]

15. Did you really need to write that?

"if someone's unloved ass wants to get offended, thats (sic) their problem."

Wow. Is it necessary to sneer that anyone who is uncomfortable with public displays of affection is "unloved"? And how would you know that?

"you are making judgments of people who see for a few minutes at a time. its (sic) called fundamental attribution error. look it up."

You too are making judgments, and about people you have not even seen.

[Deja Q]

17. I think it's obvious, but I won't make any official comment.

If I didn't, it'd be a judgment. :evilgrin:

Some times she'll make general conversation points.

Other times she'll start up or reply to a conversation, aimed solely at raising my dander because I said something in a different message that irritated her.

It's her choice to make these posts. She likes to do it and does it far more than I do.

Let her do it. I've no qualms. And when I do, I certainly let people know about it with a fervor that can be felt a dozen miles away.

I'll also respond to her if I choose to do so. That's my choice.

And you're 100% right. She too is making judgments (as I too responded with). Irony is as much a beautiful concept as any other in this world. :D Even I am aware of that and admit to my own failings. Most people wouldn't. Pride is a sin of its own accord... Which is also an irony; to be proud of the fact I openly admit my awareness and acknowledgment of my own pride's existence... mind you, circular logic tends to make me dizzy too...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. as though this is the first OP wriiten by him. if it was i wouldnt have jumped on it.

atleast this time he didnt imply my gf was cheating on me or i was cheating on her.

[Deja Q]

16. ROTFLMAO

How do you know those people only saw each other for a few minutes at a time? Like me, you just made a judgment.

And you're right, you have as much to complain about me as I do making a stink about people who openly grope in public. ;) Tolerance and perspective are two-way streets.

Kiss all you like, I'll be sure to turn away. And I don't care if you're kissing a man, woman, fuzzy bunny doll, or department display mannequin.

BTW: I did look at the millions of other things around me. I sure as hell didn't want to look at them fondle each other.

And you're right, it is my problem. So why do you keep niggling at me so? Do you love me? :loveya: I love you...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. maybe next time you will think twice about implying i am cheating on my gf or vice versa

or that my friends deserve to get hiv.

and i wont care to point out the obvious.

[Darth_Kitten]

21. This makes a lot of sense.

And I grew up in the 80's for crying out loud! ;)

I like the nimrod in the huge monster van who ALMOST hit with yesterday because he was holding up and doing something with his beloved cellphone.

(his window was open I went up to it and told him to learn how to drive and get off his cellphone. I don't think human language registered with him. Duh)

Mommy and Daddy should say "No" to Junior every now and again. It will save the world a tonne of grief and aggravation.

:)

[Kat45]

22. I once wrote a humorous essay about how inconsiderate people are.

And I got it published in The Boston Globe. The things you mentioned in your OP are things that drive me crazy as well. Glad you posted it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. Sure we are. We are just not at the height of our accomplishments

You are witnessing our descent into oblivion.