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mr cloudies best friend Captain
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 Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:30 pm
People who don't say "please" or "thank you", hold the door for someone, smile and nod to passerby's, Say "excuse me" when you are passing close by, Crowed people in line REALLY piss me off...
I was raised to ALWAYS be well mannered to everyone at all times.
Be polite to the people around you!
RANT:
about rude people
share stories of rude people
ill mannered people in general
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:44 pm
I was raised to be polite, too, but it can come off as kind of condescending or awkward around people who weren't. Like I went to NYC once and got a lot of weird looks for smiling at people on the street who made eye contact with me, saying "excuse me"/"please"/"thank you," etc. An older woman who was carrying a bunch of bags looked honestly surprised when I opened a door for her. It wasn't weird because I was polite and they were rude; it was because I went so far outside of what they considered everyday politeness.
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Bendii Straw Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:07 pm
I was raised to be polite.
Though, some days if I am at work, and a customer comes in on there phone, I won't acknowledge them because I am sick of the rudeness of the customer glaring at me for disturbing their phone call. Well I mean, you walked into MY shop and I am EXPECTED to say a greeting to let you know I noted you but you go CRAZY because I said it and interrupted ******** you.
Seriously.
And I've also been complained about because I didn't say anything and they were on the phone and considered ME rude for not saying anything...
You can't fricken win.
/end rant.
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:11 pm
1O85 I was raised to be polite, too, but it can come off as kind of condescending or awkward around people who weren't. Like I went to NYC once and got a lot of weird looks for smiling at people on the street who made eye contact with me, saying "excuse me"/"please"/"thank you," etc. An older woman who was carrying a bunch of bags looked honestly surprised when I opened a door for her. It wasn't weird because I was polite and they were rude; it was because I went so far outside of what they considered everyday politeness.
Hmmm where i live, a smallish sized city.
Its uncommon for someone to not smile and nod to a person you make eye contact with.
And everyone holds doors for each other.
Well not everyone there are still rude people, naturally.. otherwize i wouldn't have made this rant.
Bendii Straw:
I hate that! Once in my coffee shop a lady was talking to tech support for her laptop! And she had it on SPEAKERPHONE!
she was talking on a speakerphone for an hour in a busy coffee shop...
god i wanted to go over and b***h slap her.
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mr cloudies best friend Captain
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Bendii Straw Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:09 am
mr cloudies best friend 1O85 I was raised to be polite, too, but it can come off as kind of condescending or awkward around people who weren't. Like I went to NYC once and got a lot of weird looks for smiling at people on the street who made eye contact with me, saying "excuse me"/"please"/"thank you," etc. An older woman who was carrying a bunch of bags looked honestly surprised when I opened a door for her. It wasn't weird because I was polite and they were rude; it was because I went so far outside of what they considered everyday politeness.
Bendii Straw:
I hate that! Once in my coffee shop a lady was talking to tech support for her laptop! And she had it on SPEAKERPHONE!
she was talking on a speakerphone for an hour in a busy coffee shop...
god i wanted to go over and b***h slap her.
Wow.
That is just, well to me, pure stupidity..I mean, seriously. Why the hell would you be on speakerphone for it!
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:09 am
I was raised to be polite, but I have noticed one thing, for some reason at Wawa, it's a gas station/mini market in the Eastern US, people always open the doors there. I'm not complaining in any way what-so-ever, I just find it interesting that at certain places people are more polite than others.
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:49 pm
One time, I held the door open for one japanese guy,
and I had to keep it held open for the whole like, tour bus. D:<
And they didn't say thanks, or even look at me.
They acted like it was my job to hold the door open at Swiss Chalet. mad
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:29 am
I live in London - a city of over 7 million people. The rudeness you can encounter here is breathtaking. And because I'm polite, I never pull people up on it! *rant*
For example, we British are known for queueing, right? We're GOOD at it. If it were an Olympic event, we would kick a**! Work of advice - don't try queueing for the bus in London. You will NEVER GET ANYWHERE! It's got to the point that if I know I was the first person at the bus stop, I WILL barge people out of the way, thus perpetuating the bad bahaviour sad
I find that people with small children on public transport are THE worst offenders. They barge you out of the way with their buggies and make sure their kids take up twice as much room as necessary (since when did it become unacceptable for a parent to keep a small child on their lap, thus freeing up a seat for someone else?)
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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 6:03 am
Foxglow I live in London - a city of over 7 million people. The rudeness you can encounter here is breathtaking. And because I'm polite, I never pull people up on it! *rant* For example, we British are known for queueing, right? We're GOOD at it. If it were an Olympic event, we would kick a**! Work of advice - don't try queueing for the bus in London. You will NEVER GET ANYWHERE! It's got to the point that if I know I was the first person at the bus stop, I WILL barge people out of the way, thus perpetuating the bad bahaviour sad I find that people with small children on public transport are THE worst offenders. They barge you out of the way with their buggies and make sure their kids take up twice as much room as necessary (since when did it become unacceptable for a parent to keep a small child on their lap, thus freeing up a seat for someone else?) The same thing happens here in New york, but im not that nice of a person i would tell them to move...
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