View Full Version : WTF happened to courtesy and common sense?
I see more and more dumb-ass comments in threads and on the street. You know, if you're not interested in buying the High Speed Super Duper Shooter the guy has posted, ignore it or Private Message your offer. Why would you post "Hmmm... like dude, retail is $349.95..."
Oh, and when I hold the door open for you, a simple thank you would be nice.... And, hang up the freaking phone while you drive!
Keerist, I better switch to decaf... [ROFL1]
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Now that right there is Funny I don't care who you are...
I get angry when people don't even acknowledge that someone is holding the door open for them. The door didn't magically open on its own you jackass.
Also, someone already posted this thread, and it's cheaper over there. ;)
I only open doors for Little Old Ladies and Pretty womens,, most appreciate it and say so...
Batteriesnare
11-12-2009, 11:13
Also, someone already posted this thread, and it's cheaper over there. ;)
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Common courtesy and Common Sense are both acutely uncommon!
Bailey Guns
11-12-2009, 12:05
Oh, and when I hold the door open for you, a simple thank you would be nice....
Oh, I hate it when I hold the door open for someone and they walk by me like I'm invisible. I usually reply with a loud, "You're welcome." The looks on their faces are priceless.
theGinsue
11-12-2009, 14:17
"Common Courtesy" requires respect; if not for the individual, then for the act/action.
As a whole, respect is an endangered species and more often than not people expect to be the recipients of respect but won't even entertain the idea of giving it.
Sadly, I don't expect this trend to reverse itself. In fact, I wholeheartedly expect to see it worsten.
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Colorado Luckydog
11-12-2009, 18:59
Good post Copfish!! I agree 100%. The ones that get it, get it. MOST, of the ones that don't, never will. Like someone said earlier, it's a respect thing. You have to respect yourself before you can respect others. The good thing is, the biggest percent of the individuals on this forum are really good dudes. I have meet quite a few in person and would throw back a beer with every single one of them.
[Beer][Beer][Beer]
gnihcraes
11-12-2009, 19:19
i observe daily...
1. why don't the women hold it for us? I get the door dropped in my face more often, the women just don't even acknowledge that someone else is behind them. I hold it for them...
2. why do the women always go out the left door when there are a left and right? They are in front of you, two doors, they choose the "left" door and cause a traffic jam for everyone coming in the correct door from the other direction...
not woman bashing here... just what I see every day... and yes, respect and courtesy is gone. F words and others I won't repeat I hear all day long... ugh. Makes a person tired sometimes seeing it so much...
It would be nice to get a thanks when you stop and change a tire for someone too
though the other side of the same comment is I should be content in knowing I helped someone
You've stopped to change a tire, and didn't even get a thank you?!
stopped o the way home tonight changed the tire put the flat in the trunk closed the lid and the lady pulled out and drove off.
That's just asking for a brick through the back window. Even if she was scared of you, she could have said thanks through the window or something.
I'll say thanks for her. Good On Ya!
robsterclaw
11-12-2009, 21:26
I'm walking in and out of 12-20 Convenience stores every week day, 70% of the people say thanks when I hold the door open. 100% of soldiers and soldiers wives say thanks or nod at me. The ghetto trash in the areas around airport and Murray, Fountain and Chelton seldom say thanks.
One little bitch walked right past me like I didn't exist and I said you're welcome princess. She got all ghetto on me. I laughed at her and said go spend that EBT card princess because after you have a few more kids you'll be a queen. Not sure she was smart enough to get the welfare queen innuendo or not.
As political correctness expands common courtesy goes away. Sense of entitlement means you don't have to say thanks. Because Jesus put people on this Earth just to hold the door open for douchebags.
gnihcraes
11-12-2009, 21:31
though the other side of the same comment is I should be content in knowing I helped someone
i do have a question though: How often do I have to be content knowing I helped someone? once a day? 20 times a day? 500 times a year? eventually it wears you down being the "nice" guy most of the time without thanks.
I tell myself I'm a better person for it and hopefully it will pay off sometime in the end... :)
Gnihcraes, just drop and start doing push-ups right then and there. Then when they ask what the heck you are doing, tell them you are doing push-ups because if you weren't, you'd be killing them right now instead. haha
gnihcraes
11-12-2009, 23:24
can't do many push ups anymore, bad shoulder. crunches might work though... :)
sorry, it's been a rough week of "help everyone" get no thanks out of it. So much working for the state... with all the doom and gloom over furloughs, budgets, blah blah... bust our axx for ? nothing it seems...
wish I could have gone to karate tonight... sparring night, need to hit some people. (or get hit in my case usually) ha ;)
GreenScoutII
11-12-2009, 23:32
The ghetto trash in the areas around airport and Murray, Fountain and Chelton seldom say thanks..
Man, I grew up not far from there. Just north of Airport & Chelton actually. Wasn't a bad neighborhood growing up but it sure turned into the ghetto over the last 10-15 years. I barely recognize it today.
And you're right. The new residents are mean/rude as hell!
I don't get out and mingle with folks very much, but I have to say that, for the most part, most folks I encounter are polite. I nearly always hold the door open for most everyone, and I'm usually thanked. Sure, there's a few rude assholes here and there, but in my experience most people are still human.
I'm surprised no one said anything about some "good" drivers...
i do have a question though: How often do I have to be content knowing I helped someone? once a day? 20 times a day? 500 times a year? eventually it wears you down being the "nice" guy most of the time without thanks.
I tell myself I'm a better person for it and hopefully it will pay off sometime in the end... :)
I understand that you're just wanting some acknowledgment, but really, providing courtesy and acting civilized should just be part of our (we gun nutz tend to have different values from the majority of society) character. I hold doors, say thank you and please because that's all completely ingrained in my character - Much if not total credit to my parents and in particular, my fathers back hand - so I do it because I know it's right. I appreciate the thank you's but have no expectation of them.
Now if I'd changed some snotty bitches tire and she just pulled off with out saying thank you.. I'd have reported her for road rage :) So I'll echo the Thank you for being a good guy doing a kind and good deed!
How about people that walk down the middle of aisles at stores like you're not even there. I'm 6' tall and go about 285lbs or so... did you miss me? I'm to the point where I'm not going to move out of people's way anymore and just keep walking my line and when the get blasted to the floor maybe they'll think twice about next time. Maybe not. But at least I'll feel better about it. That's just if I'm relaxed because if I flex someone might be killed. It's not like there isn't any room either they just choose to walk right down the middle or if there's two people talking they don't even walk on their side of the aisle. I'll probably get arrested before I finish my shopping at Walmart but it would be SOOOO worth it.
How about people that walk down the middle of aisles at stores like you're not even there. I'm 6' tall and go about 285lbs or so... did you miss me? I'm to the point where I'm not going to move out of people's way anymore and just keep walking my line and when the get blasted to the floor maybe they'll think twice about next time. Maybe not. But at least I'll feel better about it. That's just if I'm relaxed because if I flex someone might be killed. It's not like there isn't any room either they just choose to walk right down the middle or if there's two people talking they don't even walk on their side of the aisle. I'll probably get arrested before I finish my shopping at Walmart but it would be SOOOO worth it.
Lol, I'm 6'0" and 320 (couldn't tell looking at me). Let's get together and get kicked out of Walmart! lol.
Like I always say to rude people (in my head). Boy, I'd empty a mag in your face and run you over in the truck.... TWICE! HA.
Lol, I'm 6'0" and 320 (couldn't tell looking at me). Let's get together and get kicked out of Walmart! lol.
Like I always say to rude people (in my head). Boy, I'd empty a mag in your face and run you over in the truck.... TWICE! HA.
Pretty sure I could tell. [Tooth]
Sure, let's go do some shopping! I don't think two guys have ever been more excited to go shopping before.
WillysWagon
11-13-2009, 12:07
I'm not fat, I'm tactically padded.
Now that made me ROFL...........
Sounds like me.
Rgr, I saw that quote too. I like it. Another fat boy fav:
I'm a big boy raised on farming, etc. My wide if tiny/petite little gal. A few years back she asked if we wanted to go swimming (we were out by the NC coast). I looked at her and said, "I don't do skinny dipping. I do chunky dunk!" And ever since then, when ever we go swimming or whatever, she brings that up and we still laugh about it.
GreenScoutII
11-13-2009, 12:14
Lol, I'm 6'0" and 320 (couldn't tell looking at me). Let's get together and get kicked out of Walmart! lol.
I'm 6'1" and 245 lbs of jobsite muscle. Can I come too?
I don't see why not. We'll walk arm in arm down the aisles and mow down all the thoughtless selfish pricks. We'll call it 'Taking the store back!' [ROFL1]
There is a little joke about holding doors for women, it goes like this.
A guy holds the door open for a woman
The woman says 'You don't have to hold the door open because I'm a lady'
The guy says 'I didn't hold the door open because you're a lady, I held the door open because I am a gentlemen'.
That's why we do it, because we're gentlemen.
A guy holds the door open for a woman
The woman says 'You don't have to hold the door open because I'm a lady'
The guy says 'I didn't hold the door open because you're a lady, I held the door open because I am a gentlemen; snobby bitch'.
I fixed it!
rhineoshott
11-13-2009, 13:38
I'd like to at least graduate from Pond Scum 2 to Pond scum 1 in the eyes of someone who's bathroom fan I just spent two days fixing (which HE HIMSELF broke).
We each rent office space and have to share the bathroom. Our company has been there 15 years and he moved in just two years ago. He comes in and takes out the old, circular fan in the b-room so that he can put in a new square one in (and left the gaps from the round one). We use the restroom like normal, not knowing that there's a prob until he comes into our office and gives us flames ANGER cursing SHOUTING... Because the air from the bathroom now goes into his unit and "stinks up his place while he's eating lunch at 2:30. He pronounces that I need to GO HOME to use the restroom. So the next day I say to him "it's a mechanical problem, I'll look at it and see what can be done. So I spent two days working on it, $ on materials, and now he all mad because I was in there all day yesterday working on it and he couldn't use it.
There are only two possible reasons for his infant behavior:
A: he is not human or has serious brain damage
B: he saw my conservative bumper stickers from the start and automatically hates us
Sorry guys, I'm just really mad at this guy. I see him being all nice to his customers every day and I get the wrath of Aaron as if I've been wronging him for a lifetime.
Batteriesnare
11-13-2009, 13:44
Just tell him that HE needs to go home to relieve himself.
Is there not a land lord that you can talk to?
Bailey Guns
11-13-2009, 13:55
Damn...and it's not legal to shoot him, either.
Did you tell him when he changed it that if it breaks he has to fix it? I assume it was working fine before.
GreenScoutII
11-13-2009, 14:33
The story about the fart fan brings back memories of why I don't work in retail anymore. When I was a young guy, I worked for Hugh M. Woods, the now defunct lumber company. Most people were nice, ordinary folks, but occasionally we'd get some real loons in there. The guy who bought a 5 gal. can of roofing tar to seal his driveway and then decided it was the store's responsibility to replace his carpet. This angry, screaming gentleman clearly had a malfunctioning logic center in his cerebral unit.
1. He was the dumb-ass who used roofing tar to seal a blacktop driveway.
2. He was the dumbass who after applying it to the driveway, proceded to walk all over the carpet.
3. He was the genius who thought all of this was the store's fault because when he came in and asked for a five gallon can of tar was sold exactly that. He never said what it was going to be used for.
If I ever pulled a no-brainer like that, I'd look around hoping nobody saw my stupidity!
rhineoshott
11-13-2009, 16:19
Just tell him that HE needs to go home to relieve himself.
He started doing that. Isn't he righteous!
Is there not a land lord that you can talk to?
Hmm... I don't know. There is, but there's not a lot he can do. They don't pay for things like this. And I don't want to look like we're making trouble. I'd be fine if he got the LL to come out[LOL]
Damn...and it's not legal to shoot him, either.
The thought has crossed my mind more that once [Stick]
Did you tell him when he changed it that if it breaks he has to fix it? I assume it was working fine before.
Neither one technically "broke". He replaced the old one because he... I don't know, he didn't like it. Put in a new one but didn't seal the gaps between the ceiling. We didn't notice the space and I guess he didn't see it as a problem when he installed it. I was not aware that we were enemies back when he did the b-room renovation so I didn't tell him that he would be responsible for fixing.
The story about the fart fan brings back memories of why I don't work in retail anymore. When I was a young guy, I worked for Hugh M. Woods, the now defunct lumber company. Most people were nice, ordinary folks, but occasionally we'd get some real loons in there. The guy who bought a 5 gal. can of roofing tar to seal his driveway and then decided it was the store's responsibility to replace his carpet. This angry, screaming gentleman clearly had a malfunctioning logic center in his cerebral unit.
1. He was the dumb-ass who used roofing tar to seal a blacktop driveway.
2. He was the dumbass who after applying it to the driveway, proceded to walk all over the carpet.
3. He was the genius who thought all of this was the store's fault because when he came in and asked for a five gallon can of tar was sold exactly that. He never said what it was going to be used for.
If I ever pulled a no-brainer like that, I'd look around hoping nobody saw my stupidity!
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rhineoshott wrote: Put in a new one but didn't seal the gaps between the ceiling.
So he's a butt nugget that doesn't complete the job. He shouldn't be there too much longer, he'll go out of business.
21 years of Electrical work I have learned; If it ain't broke,, Why fix it...
Rgr, I saw that quote too. I like it. Another fat boy fav:
I'm a big boy raised on farming, etc. My wide if tiny/petite little gal. A few years back she asked if we wanted to go swimming (we were out by the NC coast). I looked at her and said, "I don't do skinny dipping. I do chunky dunk!" And ever since then, when ever we go swimming or whatever, she brings that up and we still laugh about it.
I used to go swimming all the time, I can't go any more because when I go to get out a crowd gathers, and keeps throwing me back in damn greenpeace and their savethe whale movement
I used to go swimming all the time, I can't go any more because when I go to get out a crowd gathers, and keeps throwing me back in damn greenpeace and their savethe whale movement
HAHAHAAHAHHAHA... Thanks for making my night, lol.
The story about the fart fan brings back memories of why I don't work in retail anymore. When I was a young guy, I worked for Hugh M. Woods, the now defunct lumber company. Most people were nice, ordinary folks, but occasionally we'd get some real loons in there. The guy who bought a 5 gal. can of roofing tar to seal his driveway and then decided it was the store's responsibility to replace his carpet. This angry, screaming gentleman clearly had a malfunctioning logic center in his cerebral unit.
1. He was the dumb-ass who used roofing tar to seal a blacktop driveway.
2. He was the dumbass who after applying it to the driveway, proceded to walk all over the carpet.
3. He was the genius who thought all of this was the store's fault because when he came in and asked for a five gallon can of tar was sold exactly that. He never said what it was going to be used for.
If I ever pulled a no-brainer like that, I'd look around hoping nobody saw my stupidity!
This is a story of the week!
stopped o the way home tonight changed the tire put the flat in the trunk closed the lid and the lady pulled out and drove off.
Thats why I always put their stuff away, close the trunk.... THEN go grab MY tire iron to tighten the lug nuts! hahahaha Maybe ladies think that changing a tire for them is an "unwanted advance".... then change your own damn tire!
The story about the fart fan brings back memories of why I don't work in retail anymore. When I was a young guy, I worked for Hugh M. Woods, the now defunct lumber company.
Haha my father was a group store director for them till the mid 90's, about a year before they went under. He had some GREAT stories about those stores.
There was the lumber yard guard shack guy that checks your products when you leave running a drive up pot/coke "dealership"
Then there was the time my pops went in for an alarm response with local PD (greenwood IN). 3 officers rack rounds into their shotguns as they walk in the door and announce themselves. Well ill be damned if that doesnt echo inside a store that size. Guy fell out of the drop ceiling and pissed himself!
Oh, I hate it when I hold the door open for someone and they walk by me like I'm invisible. I usually reply with a loud, "You're welcome." The looks on their faces are priceless.
if the person just walked by had someone with them, I close it on them. the best are the double doors and I hurry to go to the door open it for myself and close it quickly on the retard who didn't thank me.
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