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My Head is Going to Explode! - 3/31/2006 5:02:57 PM

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I need to rant or I am likely to explode all over the place and I don't want to have to clean that up.

I am tired of stupid people. I am tired of the lack of respect for others that roam the planet. Most of all, I am tired of bullshit.

Let me explain. I was going over to take care of my Mom last night and there was a car parked in the street. It is a one lane street (pretty much) and there were at least three spaces open right next to where this genius decided to park his car and stop traffic. Excuse me! Park legally rather than think you are the only fucking person on the road. This doesn't make sense to me.

I was driving into the office today and school had let out and as I was driving along a teenager walked right out into the street in front of me and crossed the street. He saw me... He looked right at me but he walked out in front of my car anyway. When I was a kid, I was taught that you allow the cars to go and THEN you cross when it is clear. I was taught that the cars could hurt you worse than you would hurt them. I was taught respect. What the hell happened to that? When did respect become something of the past?

On my way home from the store tonight, I was cut off twice, almost broadsided and had two people in expensive cars try to force their ways in front of me. My car is an early 90's minivan... it is no great prize, but it is paid for and it runs. It isn't a Hummer or a BMW, but that doesn't mean that the guy with the more expensive car has more right to the road than I do. I just do not get the logic here... my car is worth maybe $700... their cars were worth close to $40,000. So... in their arrogance they pit their expensive car against my old car. I figured that I would let them hit me and then sort out who would be more pissed off that their car was wrecked.

I find all of this to be an indication that values, especially the value you place on others rights, is deteriorating. This is no sudden revelation to me, but this all drove a point home to me. I was raised with different values. I was taught to respect others. I was taught that other people had just as much right to be here as I do. I was taught to say please and thank you. I was taught to be courteous and to have good manners. Does every generation go through this? As people age, is it our perspectives that change or is it, in fact, the world that is changing? Is respect becoming a thing of the past? Is it possible to turn that trend around?

I miss the way things used to be. I just don't understand what happened.

Thanks for letting me get that off of my chest.

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