ChaoticMusings

Syl wrote:

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For eg, if you hold open the door for a stranger and they flounce through as if you are invisible, does it bother you? I used to just think 'ignorant get' but stay quiet, now I politely say  'You are welcome', in the hope they get the message for next time.

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 It's on the increase sadly.

How long have you got? 

When I’m queuing at a supermarket checkout, with just one or two items in my hands, and the person in front of me is unloading a heavily loaded trolley, but refuses to let me quickly go ahead and pay first.

When a gaggle of idiots and their trolleys congregate to chat, and block supermarket aisles.

Some people seem totally oblivious to the people that share this planet with them.

I don’t have a loud voice, but my voice does carry. So I sometimes get a bit sweary (in Italian 😂), and then I smile at the suspicious glares I get in return.

Some would say that these examples are not showcasing "ignorance" but rather customary practices that do not align with the customary practices that were taught to us when growing up. 

We now live in a "multicultural" / me me / I want / fragmented "society".

Maddog wrote:

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Syl wrote:

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I have seen this debate elsewhere, where people who say a 'you are welcome' or a 'thank you', in response to not being thanked for their politeness, are in fact the entitled ones.
I think a quiet 'You are welcome', is very acceptable to some entitled twit who doesn't acknowledge politeness...I bet they would notice if the door you were holding smacked them in the face.

Other ignorant things people do or dont do.

Car drivers not acknowledging you have given way to them.
People who don't put a divider up on a shopping conveyor belt when they have finished piling on their shopping (that doesn't bother me)
Parents who allow kids to kick the back of your seat. (especially on planes

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 I believe the person on the back should place the divider on the belt..

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Too true my friend, too true  

Some others would say that "ignorance" was too kindly to describe these behaviors.    Perhaps "rudeness" would be a better descriptor.   

I say this when adding an additional example to this thread - people being down right rude when replying to comments online, being nasty to their fellow contributor to the thread rather than addressing the issues and arguments being discussed.

Two have stuck with me:

1. When I first left home at 19 I moved into a rough council estate with a couple of mates. One of them brought home a stray kitten that he had found wandering in the stairwell. I'm not a fan so was delighted when I saw a missing kitten poster a few days later. I took the kitten down, knocked at the door and this woman opened it - she could have been the person Waynetta Slob was based on - she snatched the kitten off me, slapped it around the arse and said 'where the fuck have you been?' to it, and shut the door without a word to me.

2. Out jogging one day, I turned into a side street and saw this quite large woman trying to run. I looked over my shoulder and saw a bus coming - she was obviously trying to make it to the bus stop about 100 yards away. So I sprinted past her and made it to the stop at the same time the bus did. The woman was still some way off, so I put my foot on the platform to stop the doors closing and told the driver that someone was coming along. She was huffing and puffing but eventually made it. She said nothing, no smile, no nod of appreciation, nothing, and just got on the bus

Red Okktober wrote:

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Two have stuck with me:

1. When I first left home at 19 I moved into a rough council estate with a couple of mates. One of them brought home a stray kitten that he had found wandering in the stairwell. I'm not a fan so was delighted when I saw a missing kitten poster a few days later. I took the kitten down, knocked at the door and this woman opened it - she could have been the person Waynetta Slob was based on - she snatched the kitten off me, slapped it around the arse and said 'where the fuck have you been?' to it, and shut the door without a word to me.

2. Out jogging one day, I turned into a side street and saw this quite large woman trying to run. I looked over my shoulder and saw a bus coming - she was obviously trying to make it to the bus stop about 100 yards away. So I sprinted past her and made it to the stop at the same time the bus did. The woman was still some way off, so I put my foot on the platform to stop the doors closing and told the driver that someone was coming along. She was huffing and puffing but eventually made it. She said nothing, no smile, no nod of appreciation, nothing, and just got on the bus

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 😳 Unbelievable … I can imagine the look on your face 😂

Red Okktober wrote:

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Two have stuck with me:

1. When I first left home at 19 I moved into a rough council estate with a couple of mates. One of them brought home a stray kitten that he had found wandering in the stairwell. I'm not a fan so was delighted when I saw a missing kitten poster a few days later. I took the kitten down, knocked at the door and this woman opened it - she could have been the person Waynetta Slob was based on - she snatched the kitten off me, slapped it around the arse and said 'where the fuck have you been?' to it, and shut the door without a word to me.

2. Out jogging one day, I turned into a side street and saw this quite large woman trying to run. I looked over my shoulder and saw a bus coming - she was obviously trying to make it to the bus stop about 100 yards away. So I sprinted past her and made it to the stop at the same time the bus did. The woman was still some way off, so I put my foot on the platform to stop the doors closing and told the driver that someone was coming along. She was huffing and puffing but eventually made it. She said nothing, no smile, no nod of appreciation, nothing, and just got on the bus

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 People like that are probably just nasty, entitled people all the time.

The worst one I remember, I shared a flat with three girls in the Isle of Man, we all got on great, then one of them asked if a friend of hers could stay over...she stayed for longer than anyone of us expected, gave some sob story of not having anywhere else to sleep etc.

We put up with her, but she started taking liberties, eating too much food, drinking all the milk and so on, I got sick of it and told her to either contribute or stop nicking everyones stuff.

I came home early that day, and copped her cleaning her shoes with my face cloth.

She left that same day.

Maddog wrote:

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Syl wrote:

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Maddog wrote:

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Syl wrote:

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I have seen this debate elsewhere, where people who say a 'you are welcome' or a 'thank you', in response to not being thanked for their politeness, are in fact the entitled ones.
I think a quiet 'You are welcome', is very acceptable to some entitled twit who doesn't acknowledge politeness...I bet they would notice if the door you were holding smacked them in the face.

Other ignorant things people do or dont do.

Car drivers not acknowledging you have given way to them.
People who don't put a divider up on a shopping conveyor belt when they have finished piling on their shopping (that doesn't bother me)
Parents who allow kids to kick the back of your seat. (especially on planes

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 I believe the person on the back should place the divider on the belt..

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 It makes sense for the person who's shopping has just been loaded onto the conveyor belt to place the divider there...that's what I always do.

I can't say it bothers me if the person in front doesn't....it's not anything to get upset about.

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 What if no one is behind you? 

 

Do you still put the divider behind your stuff? 

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 No, there would be no point.

There is always someone behind though, on account of the majority of tills have been replaced by self service machines...and I hate them.

Obviously others do to, which is why there is usually a queue at the manned tills.