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Social maturity 101
What happened this weekend that people forgot their social manners and maturity for that matter. On two separate occasions in the Northwest Promonade, I was witness to the same type of behavior that is inexcusable...rudeness and downright social immaturity. I could not believe it when a grown woman repeatedly bounced in a booth to make it uncomfortable for me. On the third time, I turned around and said, "This is not funny", while they laughed. We left shortly after that; however, the woman and her daughter continued to laugh and stare as we walked out. I prayed for them that there hearts would be softened. Today, we were leaving Walmart for our monthly birdseed purchase, (I could be called the bird lady due to all of the birds we feed in our backyard). Anyway, as we were getting into our car we heard yelling and cussing. A grown woman (no, not the same one from the booth) was yelling at a man in a truck while a younger woman in her 20's was yelling out the back window. Foul language and social immaturiy go hand in hand, but this took the cake. I so wished I had my video camera to You Tube it, but then again, they would probably find out where I lived and stalk me or sue me for pain and suffering or something else their attorney would congure up. Again, I prayed for these people that there hearts would be softend. My husband and I had a conversation about these two incidents and I told him that I felt that we are living in a society where people are "excusing" such behavior and just going on there own way......am I right? I am a strong believer that treating people how you would want to be treated is on the top ten of positive social behavior, but what is happening? Is it just me? Is there somewhere where people truly treat one another properly????? Oh yeah........................Heaven! 1 comments from 1 users
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posted by
sherigonzales
on May 26, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Tsimpson- This is a topic my husband and I discuss regularaly--almost daily unfortunately. Overall, there just seems to be more and more of a lack of respect among society in general. I remember my husband and I taking our girls to a late breakfast at a restaurant about a year or so ago and shortly after we were seated, a group of 4 or 5 young men (early 20s) were seated at the booth directly behind us. It was a weekday and the restaurant was relatively bare, so the noise and conversation coming from the young men behind us radiated quite loudly. After about the third foul word--inexcusably the "F" word in this instance--I turned around and said "Excuse me, would you mind watching your language when children are present." They obliged and fortunately they truly did modify their language. But I don't think I should have ever had to say anything to begin with. Common courtesy should have alerted them to the fact that such language is not tolerable in that situation. Just this weekend, we attended a graduation and as we were walking up to the field, again with our young children, we could not help but overhear a guy on his cell phone using the "F" word repeatedly as an adjective. My husband and I both turned around and just glared at him. He of course never even noticed us and continued on with his conversation as he threw his retired cigarette butt on the ground. Shortly after that, we were standing around taking pictures when a group of teenage boys walked by and one belched very loudly as they passed. This time, my girls spoke up and were quite disgusted. I could go on and on about the number of instances in which this has happened. I just don't get what's happened to society. Where has the common courtesy, respect, and general sense politeness gone? I'd love to bring it back . . . one small act of goodness at a time.
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