I know this may sound trivial to some, but I just had to ask the question. Is it stupid to be polite now? I had to ask because there are so many people in the world today who either just don’t get it, or they don’t care any more. I see them doing stupid things more often every day.
There are times that I think I can be invisible. At least there are people in grocery stores who I am apparently invisible to because they want to walk right through me as if I weren’t there. Even if I say something to them about it, they just look past me like they don’t see me. Maybe I truly have the power! I can be invisible!!!
I have seen people in wheelchairs struggle to get through heavy doors, and others who just stand there and watch as if nothing were wrong. Wouldn’t it have been nice to at least ask the struggling person if they needed help? Or worse yet, I’ve seen people open a door only to let it swing closed behind them without any consideration for the 90 year old behind them who just got smacked with the door.
Why do people not use the sidewalks any more? I’ve seen people everywhere just walk through someone’s personal property without a care just because they were too lazy to take a few extra steps and use the sidewalk. Even the mail delivery people are guilty of this any more. Do they not have lawns of their own to take care of at home? I wonder how they feel when someone continually makes a path through their yard after they have spent so much time and money trying to have a nice lawn.
And then there are the drivers who spend their whole time on the road thinking they are in some kind of competition with every other driver they see. They think they own the road, that it was put there just for them to drive on, and no one else. They don’t use turn signals when they decide to suddenly turn and slam on the brakes in front of you. They weave in and out of lanes at three times the speed that every one else is going. And they want to talk and text to all of their friends on their cell phones about what idiots they have just experienced on the road! I know this sounds really bad, but there have been times when I’ve wished that the idiot that just passed me on the ice covered road at 60 mph in a sports car would end up in a ditch, and then a few miles down the road, there they sit looking pitiful in the ditch sideways looking for help. The last time that happened to me, I just waved and smiled as I drove by in my four wheel drive vehicle thinking they got what they deserved. The truth was they were just plain stupid, and probably didn’t know any better about driving on ice. It’s not like ice is slick or something, geeze.
Okay, this one is probably best suited for another rant all together, but while I’m on a roll, here we go. Why do smokers have to blow their smoke directly at someone who doesn’t smoke? That is just plain stupid and rude. If non-smokers wanted to breath in that much smoke, they would take up that nasty habit to begin with. I am an ex-smoker, and I can tell you that even when I did smoke, I didn’t like it when someone else blew their smoke directly in my face. I thought it was just as rude then as I do now. When I was a smoker, I tried to be aware of others feelings about it and not subject them to my smoke whenever possible. I am not stupid, and I certainly try not to be rude.
I just watched a segment on the news where they interviewed a woman who has finally gotten completely fed up with her credit card company and their bad bad bad practices. Funny, I was just mentioning the same thing the other day about my credit card companies, that we should just stop sending these crooks any money and see how they like that. I know it would probably screw up my credit completely, but I am just as mad as the woman on the news is.
I don’t think we should have to pay the increasing interest rates, just because they feel like raising them. I, like the woman on the news, have ALWAYS made my payments on time, and ALWAYS paid at least the minimum due each month. I was paying more than the minimum payment each month until they started raising the interest rates. I called them to find out why they did this, and tried to get them to lower the rate back to where it was, but they just told me that it was there new policy. They gave me no other reason for treating one of their best customers like crap, which in my opinion, is what they have done to us, as well as many many others in this country.
I wonder what would happen if everyone in the country would stop paying their credit card payments at the same time. I’m sure those banks would fail because they wouldn’t have the money they loaned out, AND they wouldn’t have the outrageous interest they have been charging. Quite frankly, I could care less if these crook’s banks fail, except that our government would probably just give them more Tax Payer’s bailout money.
Also, even after the new credit laws took place, some of my interest rates have been raised with no notice whatsoever. I thought that was now illegal. Apparently, these banks are above the law, or are they just in the politician’s pockets? I think that the credit card companies that are showing this kind of behavior are completely stupid, and should be made to stop it.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Terre Haute Police arrest a man for robbing two kids at gunpoint.
Officers picked up Everett Easterling, 40. Detectives say he robbed a 13 and a 17 year old with a gun.
He made off with video games, a DVD player and movies. Easterling had an initial appearance in court Tuesday.
He remains in the Vigo County Jail on $75,000 bond.
Report by: Joe Stoll, WTHI
Normally, I don’t have to wait for someone to do something stupid for me to gripe about, but since I started this blog, I haven’t been out anywhere to really experience any major stupidity. I did run across a really creative site today, and I thought I would share with you. Just click on the link below for some ’stupid’ entertainment.
Ok, I cannot take credit for this story, but hey, it made the world news, and it was pretty stupid. The robbery took place on June 17, 2008.
A lemonade stand led to a lemonade standoff in Terre Haute, Indiana on Tuesday. Police say 18-year-old Steven Tryon robbed the two children running the lemonade stand, then ran and hid inside his nearby home.
The kids followed Tryon to the house, then called police, who spent an hour trying to get the suspect to come out of the house.
The kids say they will reopen their stand, but this time with parental supervision.
They’re still waiting to get their stolen $17.50 back.
It’s being held by the police as evidence.
Tryon is facing felony robbery charges.
(Copyright 2008 by NBC. All Rights Reserved.)
Some people just don’t get it. While at the grocery store, I decided to stop at the Customer Service desk to get a couple of lottery tickets for this weeks drawing. On some days I don’t walk very well due to my arthritis, and this was one of those days. As I pushed my cart towards the counter, limping all the way, I noticed a somewhat dirty looking man coming in the entrance near Customer Service. When he spotted me, he began to run to the counter in front of me. Somewhat amused, but more baffled that he had to run to get in front of an old crippled woman, I laughingly said, “Hey, it’s a tie, now what do we do?”. He turned towards me and said “I only have one thing to do”. “So do I”, I replied, “but go ahead”. At this point, I could tell that he was really confused by my generosity, because he just stood there with that ‘deer in the headlight’ look. Once I let the guy go ahead of me, I realized how fortunate it was that I did. This guy smelled so bad that he couldn’t have had a bath this week. I managed to stay far enough away from that I only had to get hit by the odor once more, and that was just too much. I laughed with the store employees about the whole stupid ordeal after the smelly guy left.