Posted by Richard-Edward de Vere on August 23, 2012 - 12:27pm
As I maneuver my way around Los Angeles, I see a multitude of people and their interactions with one another. I am advocating that every person in the US is taught how to act in public! Why is this not a subject in kindergarten? What I am saying should be basic common sense.
1.) Get out of the way. If you enter an elevator, push the button for your floor and then move to the BACK allowing other people stepping in a space. Don’t stand at the front of the elevator loaded down with crap forcing people to crowd past you.
2.) Stand in a LINE. Not over to the side or walking away and expecting to get back where you left. A line is not a squiggle. The velvet rope in banks and assorted events is there because many people do not know how to stand in a straight line. I know that is taught in kindergarten. What happened?
3.) If you are in a toilet, do not talk on your cell phone. Or text with your free hand. I don’t care how good a friend you are to me, I will never hold a conversation with you while you are outside my stall. And it is not funny to ask while you are standing out there “What are you doing?”
4.) Don’t bring your newborn kid to work to show it off. The people there don’t really give a rat’s ass about the kid, only when you are returning and they can give your work back to you! Besides the kid probably ugly anyway and everyone will talk about it behind your back.
5.) If coffee is not to your liking, I have three words for you “I don’t care!” I don’t smoke, drink, gamble or pick up hookers anymore, so if I want to spend $4.00 for a coffee it is nobody’s business but mine. Shut up about it. And as a side note, Starbucks should have two lines, one for coffee and one for stupid drinks.
6.) Come on. How hard is it to say “Thank you?” I was at the “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” the other
night. It was chaos and not well organized as the people who were supposed to be in charge did not show up. Those that were there were overwhelmed and trying their best. I walked over to two of them at separate times and told them I thought they were doing a great job despite the circumstances. It was true. The look of gratitude on their faces was amazing. Just a few kind words cost me nothing and the return was overwhelming. So, I guess I am not a total SOB after all.
1.) Get out of the way. If you enter an elevator, push the button for your floor and then move to the BACK allowing other people stepping in a space. Don’t stand at the front of the elevator loaded down with crap forcing people to crowd past you.
2.) Stand in a LINE. Not over to the side or walking away and expecting to get back where you left. A line is not a squiggle. The velvet rope in banks and assorted events is there because many people do not know how to stand in a straight line. I know that is taught in kindergarten. What happened?
3.) If you are in a toilet, do not talk on your cell phone. Or text with your free hand. I don’t care how good a friend you are to me, I will never hold a conversation with you while you are outside my stall. And it is not funny to ask while you are standing out there “What are you doing?”
4.) Don’t bring your newborn kid to work to show it off. The people there don’t really give a rat’s ass about the kid, only when you are returning and they can give your work back to you! Besides the kid probably ugly anyway and everyone will talk about it behind your back.
5.) If coffee is not to your liking, I have three words for you “I don’t care!” I don’t smoke, drink, gamble or pick up hookers anymore, so if I want to spend $4.00 for a coffee it is nobody’s business but mine. Shut up about it. And as a side note, Starbucks should have two lines, one for coffee and one for stupid drinks.
6.) Come on. How hard is it to say “Thank you?” I was at the “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” the other
night. It was chaos and not well organized as the people who were supposed to be in charge did not show up. Those that were there were overwhelmed and trying their best. I walked over to two of them at separate times and told them I thought they were doing a great job despite the circumstances. It was true. The look of gratitude on their faces was amazing. Just a few kind words cost me nothing and the return was overwhelming. So, I guess I am not a total SOB after all.
