COURTESY STARTS WITH ME

You must have been at Publix. Don’t feel bad I’ve encountered the same woman. Compared to what she called me (and my parents) you got off easy.

Chivalry isn’t dead.

Keep on keeping on…

The Duke

Knowing you Chaz the way I do - I know that you spoke to her from your heart…
You didn’t apologize to receive niceties in return - and sadly you didn’t.
“An apple tree produces apples - because it is an apple tree… Never in order to become an apple tree!”

I agree with you on your article, however, she must belong to a Clan, because there are a lot of people like that out there; Great job Chaz,

My pet gripe is when i move to the left or right on a sidewalk, to be courtious, and other people walk down the center bumping me, with no respect for others.

I’m not quite sure I got the gist of your post. You said you ‘cut in front of her’. Now does that mean she was walking down the aisle, and you moved around her, like one car passes another car on the freeway, because she wasn’t walking fast enough, or do you mean she was standing still in the aisle, looking at something, and you walked in front of her, blocking her view momentarily?

I’ve noticed that when I’m browsing through the latest releases at the video store, people will sometimes need to walk in front of me to get past. Sometimes they simply walk in front of me without comment, and sometimes they murmur a quick apology, I assume for blocking my view of the movies on the wall. It seems to be about 50/50.

Personally, I don’t understand the people who murmur the apology. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for politeness. But I just don’t see anything rude about a person needing to step in front of me for a moment in order to get past. I’ve never found it offensive when people do this to me.

Say mister, you are lucky she only snapped at you. My wife would have knocked you down and kicked you. I go around whimpering a lot.

Hey Big Ed, I have the same problem. Ever walk down the row of cars in a parking lot of a mall or grocery store, with someone (or 2-3) coming your way? They don’t move over at all, even though they can see you can’t get any closer to those cars. I have to completely stop and sometimes they still nudge me. I swear next time I’m bowling someone over, just to see what they say.
I know what Pastor Joe means too. I give talks to school kids, and some of them interrupt like you wouldn’t believe.
It’s not ALL gone. A kid broke a bottle in front of my house. I yelled at 2 kids, and they said it was a boy I knew. I didn’t think he was the type, but his dad made him walk the block over, ring my door to apologize and sweep it up.
~B

Cherylp,
Darned if I don’t like the way you people talk. Don’t you appreciate Holly? She is a special lady with a gift for wieling a wicked pen. A good deal of my life has been spent dealing with animals but I came to the place long ago where I realized that the real predators are the human kind, but do you know what? The vast majority are pretty darned special and that is coming from somebody that has been ridden hard and put away wet. You take care now ya hear, Chaz

Cherylp,
I had to think about what you said in your previous blog and I have to agree with you, it is a commentary alright, a commentary on the human condition. People, folks just like you and I seem to have lost control in their lives.
That helpless feeling you speak of can lead to all sorts of abhorrent behavior such as spousal abuse, road rage, substance abuse, etc.
It has been my joy to observe wolves both in captivity and in the wild and to be very candid I must say they at times seem more human than the humans. They pay greater respect and defference to others in the pack than seems reasonable and yet without that sense of integtity the pack would deteriorate and destruct.
I think this has something to do with the ‘rules’.
Though unwritten the pack has rules and today people seem to have lost sight of the rules governing an intelligent society. Chaz

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