No such thing as Christmas or holiday spirit anymore

[Crazy Dave]

Or even just plain common courtesy. There was an elderly, handicapped woman trying to get her motorized shopping cart going but she was afraid to cut in front of all the people continuously walking in the door. I stopped, like you would do in traffic to let someone out and told her to go ahead while at the same time telling the people behind me and around me to hold up for a second and do you think they did? Hell friggin' no they just kept plowing right in around me and they could see that she was trying to get going and that they were stopping her from doing so. She did get out once I got pissed and started yelling at a few people.

Yeah...I guess I was being a dick too but I was PISSED! :grr:

Except to the lady who was very thankful and told me my mom raised me right :)

[Nickster]

1. Isn't it amazing how people get? I had a similar situation with an older lady who's

car stalled in a turn lane with medians on both side. She got panic-y and didn't know what to do. She had a guy behind her screaming at her and my car was behind that guy. I saw the conflict going on and got out of my car to see what was going on. This guy had got out and was screaming at this poor lady who was obviously freaking out probably because of his screaming. I yelled at the guy and said he could turn his anger on me and leave her alone. I asked him if he'd want his mother treated like that and he got back in his car to leave me to push her to the other side of the intersection and into a parking lot to wait for a tow truck with her. People really suck some time.

[Crazy Dave]

3. It was like everything in the store would be gone in the five seconds it would have taken

Good for you too. Now my faith is starting to come back :thumbsup: :hi:

[redqueen]

2. See, sometimes being a dick is a good thing.

:)

Glad you did what was necessary to help her out.

[flvegan]

4. Repeat after me: Be thankful you're not like them.

The considerate are a dying breed.

I find myself becoming more vocal and to be honest, hateful of people like that. Last weekend I saw a perfectly able woman leave a shopping cart in the middle of a handicapped space. I know folks are lazy, and to burn a calorie taking the cart to the return probably would've caused deep mourning for her, but a handicapped spot? She started backing out and had her windows down. I pointed to the cart and yelled, "how fucking lazy do you have to be?" and a grabbed the cart and put it in the return. She looked at me stunned as how DARE I speak to her crusty ass that way. Fuck her and everyone like her.

[kentauros]

6. If I had been walking by, I would have moved the cart behind her vehicle

and then told her to put it into the return stall

[DarkTirade]

5. You did the right thing.

There's no dickery there.

[kentauros]

7. I think it's simply the "common courtesy" part more than anything.

If courtesy were still taught and practiced, I don't think things like "road rage" would ever happen. You could put on your turn signal and actually get let into the lane instead of having people zoom up as if to say "You're not getting in front of me!!!"

Often I find myself stopped in street-traffic with lights, and inevitably I'll be at the light, almost gridlock and the light's green for me. But if I move forward, I'll be stuck in the middle of the intersection when it changes. I always stop and keep the intersection clear. One time I did this and this guy in his candy stripe suspenders and his little pickup was right on my tail, creeping forward and I could see in the mirrors that he was literally screaming at me to move forward. I looked and ignored. I have to wonder why it's so important to "be in front" when all it gets them is more frustration.

You did the right thing, since some people only react if anger is brought into the equation. Otherwise, it never registers and they revert to being the total asses they always are.

[Crazy Dave]

9. I saw a perfect example of "You're not getting in front of me!!!"

A couple of months ago I was passing this couple in their minivan. They were going slow and I was going by them fast until...they saw someone a few hundred yards ahead on the on ramp about to merge into traffic in their lane. The driver of the minivan then floored it, passing me and making sure the car wouldn't be able to pull out in front of him but then after we were past the on ramp he slowed down again and I passed him again then the car he blocked had to pass him too.

[Deep13]

8. A simple obvious thing like that.

How hard is it to let an old lady into the door? I get pretty impatient about that too.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Make what you want.