My Pet Peeve (part 1)
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inconsiderate people come in all sorts.
I get frustrated when people are smacking into my kids with their carts in the grocery store, or rushing past in the mall, hitting people with their bags. Shoving their way up the escalators, despite the lady with the oxygen bottle who clearly can't move over or walk up it.
A pause to consider why a person is not moving quickly is just as important as a pause to consider why a person is in a rush. Giving people room to enjoy their leisurely shopping, or their chat, is just as important as moving to let someone by who's in a rush.
It all flows both ways.
But I mean a situation like leaving a hockey game. Anyone who decides to get out of their chair and join the exiting crowd should have some consideration for those simply trying to leave the building. Either stay in the seat and chat or participate in an orderly exit. Some people think the world should stop for them, literally.
I agree with that and I don't expect anyone to jump to my pace for the sake of pleasing me. But as I'm sure you would appreciate the absence of someone poking you in the back telling you to move along, hurry up and get out of the way, so to do I enjoy seeing someone who has paused for a moment or stopped to smell the flowers do so in a way that doesn't impede everyone behind them.
In a grocery isle, it's just as easy to step to one side and move your cart over with you as you read the labels and figure out which brand you want to buy. Just as easy as it is to gently get someone's attention with a "pardon me" and ask them to allow you to pass.
The point is that you should know to leave room for the rest of us to move along when you take your time. It is about balance. Balance means that you enjoy a truck and boat trailer while taking care not to park it in front of my driveway as I'm leaving for work because you are only going to be "maybe twenty minutes tops."
Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about Kreskin. I've seen the types of people you're complaining about. But I'm here to tell you, that they won't go away. Neither will the ones who are in an eternal rush. Everyone everywhere lives life at different paces. One person rushes someone, another slows someone down. All the time, every day. Neither one is 'okay', but both are inevitable, and getting worked up over it simply causes unnecessary stress, aggrevation, and rudeness. :smile:
Gosh, I think you may be talking about me. I can't walk slow. I walk fast. If I walk slow I trip, stumble and would probably fall over. I don't think I push past people but I don't doddle, or walk slow ever. I don't walk up the stairs I run. Why? Probably because I work at a desk all day. Yes, I do work out everyday, but like to add whatever I can whenever I can. That includes running up the stairs, escalator and walking quickly to every destination. I figure I'll slow down when I have to.
Aye Doc, Aye. don`t want t' wake up one mornin' an' find me arse be at me knees!
I don't know if anyone else has done this: I once, years ago stepped on a kid's toy on an escalator and fell on my a$$. (more correctly, my coccyx and it hurt like hell) It was a wide escalator and I was about in the middle. It is a bit of a panic situation because there is nothing stationary to grab onto. If you are near the railing, the moving rubber handrail is something to get hold of but in the middle there is nothing. I felt more than a bit foolish down there among all the feet and legs. It took me a moment to get my feet under me and stand up. The mother of the kid who's toy I broke by stepping on it was upset that I had broken the little toy dog with wheels on it. I didn't offer to pay for it.....:smile:
You fell on your coccyx? I didn't think that was possible. You lucky ba...
Toys on escalators, not good.
The coccyx is where your tail would be attached if we had one and wanted to wag it.....If you fall on it it becomes attached to every pain sensing nerve in your body.......8O:roll::lol:
Sounds like me...except I don't walk fast, I run. I figure there are too many things to see and do to go slowly when it's not necessary. There is a time and a place to take it easy. If it's a nice day, I'll go to the beach or sit in a grassy field and relax. But if it's raining out, or I'm in a mall, I don't see the point in taking my time, just like when I am at work, I don't see the point in not working hard. If I am not going to be productive, I might as well enjoy my time, for example at the beach. The extra time I save by working hard, or walking fast, I can spend on a nice day.
HA! I was thinking of asking my daughter to put an escalator between the main
house and the poolhouse. When I go to visit, I also need an elevator to the base-
ment. Hey, her place is huge.
Uncle
Sounds reasonable. ....
Some days I would like to have one.......with the most powerful engine option......Bigfoot wheels and tires.....4" exhaust pipes........and blacked out windows.........just for an hour or so......:lol:
Every other car in Texas fits the above description, and 1/2 of them belong to women. It would take
a Sherman tank with rocket boosters to make any difference where I live.
Uncle
It sounds like a different attachment.
I can imagine that spot at the bottom of the spine would pack a good wollop.