It seems rudeness is the order of the day in this country;
at least among a significant minority of our population.
I was driving on a nearby parkway on my merry way to a
nearby town last night (in the right lane of traffic and moving at the posted
speed) when a big SUV came plowing up the road behind me, and summarily
proceeded to hug my back bumper.
Well, I don’t countenance this sort of behavior real well,
and I ran my car into the service lane, and let him go by. I admit it. As he
sped by I filled his ears with an extended hundred decibel blast of my horn. (I
don’t do the one fingered salute, so this is the least that I could do to
welcome what would have otherwise been his “romantic advances.)”
I have previously written about another example of over the
top rudeness. Recently I was walking my dog down the “dog path” in our
neighborhood, and lo and behold I walked up on a couple hundred pound
television someone had discarded there. And after a McDonald’s “burger joint”
was built nearby, I never cease to find discarded wrappers and cups on that
same walkway. And mind you, I live in a very nice neighborhood.
… I mean these folks “ain’t got no couth.”
Perhaps the best example of rudeness of which I’m aware takes
place on social media.
If someone doesn’t like your personal brand of political
correctness, (or lack thereof) you would think the known universe was about to
implode. I have been roundly criticized, (often by the same two or three
people) for various comments and videos which I have posted on my own page. I
mean give me a break. Don’t look at my page, or defriend me. I have often had
to defriend people who have chosen to make me their personal soapbox.
The older I get, however, the more I just don’t care about
what I consider obsessive pettiness, such as the rudeness displayed by the
folks to whom I allude in the foregoing paragraph.
They say you just can’t fix stupid.
Well, without referring to such less than preferable people
with that particular adjective, I will add, you’re just not going to fix
Rude.
Rudeness just seems to be ingrained in some people.
By William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary" Vol. 6
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