There Are Rules And Laws For A Reason Rant!- Page 3

[Elphaba]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 8:48pm

nope, sorry......that is a cop-out munk. To use that excuse just validates my point. Courtesy and respect should follow someone wherever they are.....that is the mark of someone who knows how to treat people.

[DG]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 8:49pm

"So to include peoply like myself in this all inclusive "youth" is HORRIBLY offensive to me"

Help me understand something here, please. You want to claim HORRIBLE offense at having a coincidental commonality with a group that some say they find boorish, and yet you want to make sweeping generalities yourself about those groups that you find rude? What about people who fit the group description you're denigrating, but don't themselves exhibit that behavior - do they get to feel HORRIBLY offended, as well?

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 8:52pm

"but that is largely due to the horrible job of people your age raising these kids. "

I hate to tell you, but the children of people my age are also the older generation by now. Clearly you think I'm younger than I am.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 8:56pm

I guess I do, Jane, which isn't really a bad thing.

D2: I suppose that I knew what I meant when I was typing. I obviously didn't mean EVERYONE, whereas that's the feeling I got from Jane's post.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:00pm

What did you get from my post, Munk?

Folks, we can only speak from our own experience. In my own experience, I've been treated more rudely and bothered more by younger people. You can call my opinion ridiculous or anything you like. It's my opinion and I still have the same one!

Off to watch the Sopranos!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:03pm

munk, that was DG, not D2. Though their screennames look extremely similar, they are, in fact, very different people.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:06pm

It was definitely a typo.

Jane: It wasn't your fault with wording or anything...the perception is my problem.

[lesmisforever]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:06pm

"Then there are the fathers who feel the need to bring their young daughters into the MENS ROOM because rather than have them wait for the ladies room, they think it's quicker. "

Actually, that's for safety reasons. You don't want to send young children in the bathroom alone. I'd say age 5 and above can probably go alone as long as the parent waits outside, but children younger than that often need supervision. This occurs in the women's bathroom also, but it doesn't bother me.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:29pm

Doesn't bother me either....

Unless they want to share my stall.........

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:31am

I thought of this thread this morning as I rode on the packed 1 train. I've noticed that days like this, when the trains are running every 15 to 20 minutes, tend to bring out either the best or worst in people. On the whole people were very polite and doing everything possible to get everyone on the train that could fit. However there were still the people who insisted that everyone should move in when there was no more room and a shining example of a human being who stood in the door for over a minute refusing to let it close because she decided that if she couldn't get on the train wasn't going anywhere.

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:52pm

A few other driving-related annoyances..

1) When someone stays in a lane that is ending until the last possible micro-second (so they can pass more cars) and then expect you to slow down -- or merge over-- in order to let them cut in front of you. What's worse is when they cut in front of you without even waiting for you to slow down to let them in first.

2) People who are EXCESSIVELY speeding that get up on the edge of your bumper and then flash their lights because they want you to get out of their way. It doesn't matter than I myself am already going over the speed limit myself. Maybe its the testosterone in me...but that is always my cue to SLOW DOWN.

3) The reverse of #1 -- I hate it when I am trying to merge onto the interstate (and am in a lane that is quickly running out) and no one will let me in -- when they easily could move over one lane or slow down slightly. I end up speeding up to get around them -- which of course causes THEM to speed up as well. Then I slow down so I can squeeze in behind them -- which causes the car behind that one to speed up so I can't get in there either.

4) People who don't plan ahead and get in the correct turn lane prior to turning. Instead of accepting their mistake and going to the next signa to make a U-Turn -- they come to a complete stop in the middle of the intersection (while in a through lane) with their turn signal on and wait until the signal changes so they can cut across three lanes and make the turn. All the while blocking traffic for everyone else because of their mistake.

Ranting -- how cathartic!

[trinaaron]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:59pm

I was at the Poughkeepsie train station the other day waiting in a line of about 4 people to get an OJ at the food counter. A woman got in front of everyone and said " I am in a hurry, I need to catch a train".....It was the TRAIN STATION, what on earth could she have thought we were there for? It's not like Grand Central where there are tons of train, there in one every half hour.

Also, I detest when stores have 1 line that then splits off to different cashiers. People always try to just walk up to one of the cashiers.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:00pm

YES! 100% agreement on EVERY one of those!

[tazber]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:08pm

Enjorlas I agree with all those scenarios!

I love it when people try to get out of a crowded lane leading up to a tunnel(or whatever)and drive up to the front to get back in only to find there is a police car there waiting to send them ALL the way to the back!!!

[losingmyreligion]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:25pm

I work at a clothing store, and sometimes people can be just unbelievable. Examples:

-The other day, I saw a shirt on the floor. When I went to pick it up, I discovered that it was lying on top of a Starbucks cup full of cold tea. I'm sorry, but who is so lazy that they can't even be bothered to walk a couple feet over to the garbage can?? And it also sucks because nobody is going to buy the shirt now that it has TEA STAINS on it.

-One word: shoes. I don't know how many times I've had to clean up shoeboxes that are almost completely flattened or smushed. This is because people are obviously too busy or important to correctly put the shoes back in the box. I mean, it's not THAT hard. If the shoes don't fit in right away, just rearrange them a couple times until they do. Pressing the lid down on the box as hard as you can won't make the shoes fit, I promise. Also, people seem to think that if they stick the offending pair of shoes on a different shelf or something, that we (the salespeople) won't notice. Except, um, we do. And it's annoying.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:27pm

I HATE the store registers with one line! Thank you, Trinaaron. One of my most pettest pet peeves.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:32pm

what's worse?

When the employees dont know which is the policy, seperate lines or one single one? Who cares?

BEDLAM!

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:50pm

Then there's of course the obvious people who think they are above the rules in any theatre, Broadway, movie, etc, and talk on their phones, text on their phones, talk during the performance/movie, sing along, etc.

And I may be called a cold-hearted bitch for this one, but I don't care. Soliciting on the subway is ILLEGAL. The other day I got really really pissed as I was trying to talk to a friend across the small subway (not screaming, or trying not to anyway Jane), and this one woman just stopped right in front of me and started her whole I'm homeless schpeel for like 5 whole minutes I couldn't get around her so my friend could see me and I could finish what I was saying. That day I think there were 3 in the car at one time. I sound like a huge bitch, I know, but it is illegal...

Pedestrians who pay absolutely no attention to their own walking sign. This may be slightly hypocritical as yes, if there's no cars coming I walk, or sometimes I do run across the street if the stop sign is blinking, but I always try to run at that point, and am often out of the way by the time the next cars get to go, and also try to be understandable to cars trying to turn. I don't miss that about driving in Manhattan, it's nearly impossible to turn, as people don't stop walking until a minute after the cars coming to their walkway have been giving the green light. And in general, when the light is blinking, people just start slowly mosing along, and make no effort to hurry to the sidewalk when the cars have the green light.

People who will spend their whole class period texting. Okay, maybe at college the rule book would give the students enough credit to not think an actual rule should be don't text during class and maybe it's therefore, not technically breaking a rule, but seriously if that's all you're gonna do in class, what a way to waste your parent's money.

Totally agree about the cars that try to cut in at the last minute to a closing lane. They usually cause much more traffic than there is to begin with.

[DG]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 2:30am

Our city is one of the rare exceptions in the southwest that has an independent primary source of water. On occasion, they need to work on the pipeline, and our water supply is radically reduced. We are asked – through mailings, notices brought to our door, and signs along the major roadways – to conserve water during those brief periods, and are given pointers as to what are the best ways to conserve.

During the last three days, while we’ve been under these conditions, we have been the ONLY household in our neighborhood to turn off the automatic sprinkling system (which was number ONE on the suggestion list!)

It is stupefying to me that people could be so ignorant or careless as to ignore that which directly affects their daily lives. It is certainly no wonder that they exhibit NO concern for anything outside their own sphere of existence.

It is only by deeply mining our own individual integrity that we avoid succumbing to an overall attitude of ‘Why Bother.’