Plays Well With Others

Rude People …

Are people just ruder these days or something? What ever happened to manners and being polite to people? Did I just get raised differently than most of the population?

Wifey™ and I were at the mall over the weekend and upon pulling in, were behind this white Toyota Solara. The guy pulls into an aisle, passes a van full of people that appear to be loading up to pull out and proceeds up the aisle. So, since he passed the van, I sit and wait for the van to pull out so that I can take his spot. The van pulls out and all I see is backup lights coming towards me. Not from the van, but from the Toyota Solara. My guess is, that he didn’t see the van ready to pull out until the last minute and when he did realize it, he was already passed it. So, he backs up at full speed and backs right into the spot the van pulled out of. Erm. Now, I don’t know the etiquette for such things, but if you pass the spot and someone else waits for it, isn’t it a case of “you snooze, you lose”. I guess I could have fought him for it, or caused a big scene, but I wasn’t really in the mood. If the spot is THAT important to him, then I guess he can have it. Not like it’s Christmas time and all the spots were taken. What angered me more is that this guy was on his cell phone the entire time. From the time he entered the parking lot to the time he took the spot and then throughout the store, he didn’t get off his phone once. Plus, he spent about five minutes in the store and then left. Maybe he was just a prick.

Regardless, Wifey™ and I headed into the mall and started walking around. Now, for me, it’s sort of a reaction that when I’m walking and someone is coming at me, I tend to move over so that they can get by. I try to get out of people’s way. Wifey™ and I didn’t realize it at first, but we both tend to do that. We scoot aside when people are coming in our direction. However, NO ONE else was moving.

These groups of people, or even single people would walk up in our direction and they wouldn’t budge. They’d walk straight ahead and if we didn’t move, they’d probably walk straight into us. At some point, it pissed us off. Why the hell are we dodging people left and right so they can get by, yet they don’t try and do the same? So, at one point, Wifey™ decided she wasn’t going to budge, and this lady walked straight up to her and they both stopped face to face. The lady still didn’t budge, just said “excuse me” and expected Wifey™ to move. Wifey™ held her ground for a little while and eventually move, because the lady wasn’t budging. Ugh.

We even decided to hold hands and not budge when people would walk towards us and it worked to an extent … except that subconciously we still moved to the side. So half the time, I would be shoved against a wall, or a directory sign or a plant …

My question is, when the hell did people get so rude? They aren’t any more important than us, so why the hell should we inconvenience ourselves by jumping out of the way for them. It wouldn’t be so bad if we both moved to the side, but in the example with Wifey™ … that lady wasn’t going to move if she had to stand there all day long.

I’m going to test this out a little more to find out if it’s all people or just certain cultures. I certainly don’t want to generalize, but the mall we were in on the weekend was predominantly asian/filipino. I’ll have to try it out at another mall and find out if ALL people are rude or just the one’s at this particular mall. Seems to me that I’ve been at other malls where the other people at least attempt to move out of your way also.

Just makes me sick that certain people are raised in a barnyard, with no sense of what it’s like to be polite and curteous.

2 Responses to 'Rude People …'

  1. personal avatar
    Katie | 09 June 2003

    You always being the one to move — I know!!!

    I realized this when I was a kid, walking through the mall. Pissed me off, so I just started slamming into people.

    What I hate is when you get a group of people who either a) walk down the hallway at a snail’s pace, all loud and taking up the entire way so you can’t get past, or b) stand in the middle of the aisle in a department store blocking your way. And they will NOT move! You have to be like “SCUSE ME” and fucking elbow somebody in the face first…

    I hate people. 🙂


  2. personal avatar
    polite as heck | 06 September 2003

    It’s true people are rude these days. I am not perfect and I do make mistakes and such but it you do you can get in an accident. When I am walking in a public place I move over because i was raised that way to respect the other person’s private space. When I go up a street even though I have a right of way, I let the speeding driver go on down even though he was supposed to wait for me. When I enter the freeway, the people on the right of another entrance have the right of way by DMV rules, I let the cars pass, and then someone behind me starts honking incessantly ignorant that I am yielding the right of way. I try not to honk when the person in front of me is looking for a parking space because if I do I might get a finger or a gun pointing at me. It is better to be safe than sorry. I live in a city where mostly Armenians live and they are majorly rude wear no deodarant, cut in front of line at the grocery store, think they are so important in their cars and drive 70 to 80 miles per hour and so forth, and they have no respect for the law or anyone.


3gp videos