Ok the blog has been created and I am venturing to drop the first post. As I mentioned on the board, I have tried this a few times and failed miserably each time, LOL. But maybe the 3rd times a charm?
This is on my mind so I'm just going to post this random thought:
I've been wondering what is happening to common courtesy? I have had 2 incidents where my car has been hit and the other driver at fault has acted INCREDIBLY rude. On the Friday before Christmas, I pulled into a parking lot and saw that a big city bus was about to pull out. Being the considerate driver that I am, I pulled over to the farthes spot in the driveway making room for the bus driver to get by. I was at a stop when the bus driver barreled through driveway and she ALMOST cleared me but crushed the back driver's side of my car. I couldn't believe that she had misjudged the turn so miserably. Do you know this woman jumped off the bus and cursed ME out? What's up with that??? She was cited by the poilice officer as being at fault but why did she feel the need to go off on me when SHE was so clearly at fault.
Then today I was sitting in my parked car and a woman was backing into the space in front of me. While backing in she struck the front of my car with a little too much force. I jumped out of my car to see the damage. She leisuresly got out of her car and gathered her things and was going to walk away! I said, "Excuse me, you just HIT my car." She said, "I didn't HIT your car, I tapped it. That's what bumpers are for." I took a step closer to her and I looked her in the eye, "You HIT my car and if you were a decent polite person you would at least apologize." In the snottiest voice she could muster she said, "sorry". I called her an asshole and went back to my car, LOL.
What's wrong with folks? Granted my "asshole" comment was not very nice either but I feel that was at least warranted after the RUDENESS for this chick.
Anyway, I SICK of the rude people!
7 comments:
I'm with you Michele. SOmetimes I think the whole world is going crazy, but the truth is that people don't take the time to stop and think about how what they say and do impacts others.
Congrat on starting the blog. I guess I should be ashamed to say I have posted to mine in forever and a day. I do plan to get back to it soon. It's been at the top of my 2 Do List since the new year began. You see how much progress I've made with the 07 resolutions. Keep writing. That's all you can do.
Always,
Q
You did do it! I'm proud of you on several fronts! This and that.
This blogging stuff is good for the soul or at least a good way to get stuff off "our" chest.
That rudeness is part of today's shamelessness. Whatever happened to "Oh, I'm sorry" and mean it! Asshole is too good of a word for the latest jerk! You're a better woman than me.
Theri
Thank you both for the encouragement!
I just got finished reading "Nowhere Is A Place" by Berniece McFadden. Have you read this one? I will post a review later.
I LOVE Berniece McFadden's work! I've read all 5 of her works. I believe I even reviewed of few of them at Da Corner, but her latest "Nowhere Is A Place" does not disappoint!
Throughout McFadden's work she establishes a strong connection between her characters present situation and their ancestral past. I love the way she builds a bridge between past and present one life event at a time until the past and present meet face-to-face.
"Nowhere..." was about a tense mother/daughter relationship. The daughter invites her mother on a cross-country car trip. The mother agrees to go. The story unfolds as the daughter expalins that she is writing a book and wants to record her mothers life. She asks her mother to tell all the old stories while taking this journey across the country. Now this could have been very confusing, a book about someone writing a book. And when the mother was telling the stories, obviously she was telling of the past and this again could have been very difficult to decipher. McFadden MASTERFULLY handled both. All of the memories were italicized making it easy to tell the past from the present. And the transitions between the 2 were very natural and she did not awkwardly break her rhythm.
The bridge that she built spanned slavery and present bringing the 2 together in a meeting that the daughter orchestrated between her mother and her mother's long lost aunt.
This was a fantastic read. I highly recommend it!
Michele
this e.x.c.e.l.l.e.n.t. review needs to go on the front page of the blog. I woulda missed this recommendation if I hadn't been so nosey LOL.
Thanks, T.
I agree with the poster above. This needs to have its place on the front page.
Q
Michele, where's the next post? LOL
~Q
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