There are few things in this precious world that honestly irk me. One of those things are rude people who ignore the common courtesies (which apparently aren't being taught anymore). I'm not even talking about above and beyond the call of duty stuff like holding open the door for people walking in behind you, or standing to greet someone as they come into the room. I'm referring to things such as saying "please", "thank you", and "you're welcome", saying "excuse me" when you bump into people, and throwing away your own trash.
The top offenders I have noticed in the three courtesy crimes I have noted are typically:
1.) Cell phone users.
2.) iPod listeners.
Half of the customers (give or take a few) that come into Backyard Burger or go through the drive through are on their cell phone. They don't put the person on hold while they give an order and they don't have any patience for the order taker. They don't make eye contact, they don't say "thank you" or "please". They normally have walked/driven away before you can say "thank you". These people are double rude because they are rude to their server AND to the person with whom they are conversing.
iPod listeners are common culprits on campus. They go around with their tunes blaring so loudly that everyone in a ten foot radius is subjected to their (typically terrible) taste in music. As if that isn't bad enough, because of their overloaded ear drums and the fact that they are bobbing their head to the music, they often collide with passers by on their way. Do they ever stop? Do they ever say "excuse me" or "sorry"? No. They go along grooving to their beat. Heaven forbid they remove one precious ear bud for one milisecond to make sure that they haven't caused any damage.
My older brother, Russell, once proposed that their should be a "no-cell-phone" section in restaraunts similarly to how there are "no-smoking-sections". With every passing day I think that is a better and better idea.
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Wow, either I really am getting old or your site has just become near impossible to read. Yellow background and a small, orange-ish type?
Enough of my whining... I couldn't agree more. Society as a whole has taken a serious downturn with regard to common courtesy. There's a whole section in this book I read awhile back that deals with reciprocal altruism that you might find interesting - How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search For God.
Whoa. Weird. I had it set for black font. Guess there was a glitch somewhere in the coding. Well. I fixed it now. Hopefully the text will STAY black this time.
Also - every time you visit my blog Pete, my "list-of-books-that-aren't-text-books-so-i-will-never-have-time-to-read-them-list" seems to get longer and longer. -_^
That's a good thing, right? Just out of curiosity, is the font here supposed to be that small? I'll be honest and admit I haven't tried checking it out in multiple browsers to see if it's just a problem with the way Chrome is rendering it. Perhaps I'm also made of fail...
It is font size 10 of Courier New. It should show up fine in Firefox and in IE on my PC. At least it does for me. Need you use the ctrl+ command? Or at you a mac?
Boo... it's an issue with Chrome (FF & IE are fine). For whatever reason, it is very tiny.
hmm...I know what you mean. I've been noticing cell phone drivers a lot more lately. They just are not as aware as they should be and it's rather scary that they're operating a "machine" while operating another "mini one their phone" simultaneously.
I think the size of font and blog is great. I'm using Firefox.
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