People Have No Manners…
So, today I was leaving the parking garage at my plastic surgeons office (I’m just getting laser hair removal, don’t worry 
…) and pulled up to the booth to pay the $2 parking fee since I forgot to get my ticket validated. I hand my ticket and $2 to the middle aged Indian man that was working and say, “Hello, how are you doing?”. He looked at me and said, “No one ever asks me that! How come your ticket is not validated?” I tell him that I just forgot, but I don’t mind paying since it was my fault for forgetting. He then instists that I should not pay because I am such a nice person and asks me for any sort of proof of a doctor visit (receipt, prescription, appointment card, etc). So, this guy went completely out of his way to save me $2 just because i greeted him properly. It’s sad, really.
One of my biggest pet peeves are people that are so important that they have to contantly yap into their cell phones while other people are waiting on them, checking out at the grocery store for example. I see it almost every day and It’s SO fucking rude! If you are that busy and important, perhaps your assistant should be doing such menial things like talking to the grocery clerk. People are such jackasses…
I get tired of trying to be nice to people, but seems like I get ignored. This is all part of the deterioration of manners in general.
Ah, bschneider5, stick with it, never give up hope…
Hey Summer that is so right on. If I were a guy at a ticket booth and some shmuck pulled up in his beemer bleating-on into his his cell without so much as even a word of recognition, I'd make sure I gave him some crap change, you know? Like some Mickey Mouse coinage, something foreign and worthless or have a pile of stickers with the word "ASSHOLE" on 'em, slap one on his car, or call the cops & report the motor as stolen or having just done a robbery or something… Or at a checkout, I'd make sure I couldn't find the price of an item and *make* the fucker communicate…
I was gonna say don’t get me started but it’s too late for that LOL
One philosopher said the key to being ethical is to treat people like people. That sounds simple enough, but what he meant was you can’t treat people like a device/machine. Basically treating people like money taking machines or thinking “It’s his/her job to put up with this shit” is unethical. More complex questions on ethics can usually be broken down to this simple way of thinking about it.
Congrats on the lasering…
Hair + Woman = Bad
“people that are so important that they have to contantly yap into their cell phones while other people are waiting on them”
I know a boyfriend of yours who is getting really good at this.