Why is it that people who otherwise consider themselves so courteous and considerate to everyone around them have no qualms whatsoever about interrupting some people when they are talking?
Now I’m not talking (well, actually usually I am and this happens to me, which is the whole point behind this posting) about a bunch of people in a bar when everyone is talking at once, or some other equally situation where politeness is not the first consideration. I’m talking about in a two or three person conversation, or, like tonight, at a meeting where for all the other speakers it’s been one person’s turn to speak and then another person’s and the rest of us wait until that person is finished before we start.
My boss does it to me constantly. And usually glosses it over by ‘well, you stopped talking’ ‘No, I was in the middle of a word’ ‘No, you stopped’ and usually I give up because I really am trying to pick my battles. Although occasionally I have walked out of the room or just turned around and started doing something else. Oh, and yeah, this has been going on for years.
But now there’s another person from work who has started to do it. I let it pass when it happened a few days ago. Tonight it happened twice, the first time I kind of let it pass, the second I just sat there when she got done with what she had to say, had to say before I finished what I was saying, and when someone else said ‘what were you saying’, I didn’t respond immediately and the person who had interrupted then said ‘oh she’s made because I interrupted her – again’.
You’re flippin’ well right I was mad, and you making a joke of it and making it seem like it’s my fault because I mind your rudeness just makes me madder. And what I was really doing was trying to control myself so as not to be equally rude and say some thing I’d only be chastised for later (business meeting, the boss was there).
But if she’d’a done it again I probably would have got up and gone over and bit her effing nose off. And I might if she keeps doing it. Except that tonight she had a sudden allergy attack and her nose was running and that would have been just too icky.
But what makes otherwise civilized people do things like that? I just don’t get it.
Add that to my list.
Here’s what I think – rude is rude, and if you’ve been rude at least be polite enough to own up and say ‘sorry’, don’t make it the other person’s fault. I hope it comes back and bites them in the ass some time. Is that rude of me?
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Tribute
Read before both performances yesterday:
Ladies and Gentlemen, on this ninth anniversary of the attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 we ask you to join us in a moment of silence in memory not only of the people lost in those tragedies, but for all those people who are defending our country and also protecting and serving us here at home: the military, the police, the firefighters and the emergency medical workers who are always there for us when we need them, and who sometimes make the supreme sacrifice in doing their duty.
Ladies and Gentlemen, on this ninth anniversary of the attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 we ask you to join us in a moment of silence in memory not only of the people lost in those tragedies, but for all those people who are defending our country and also protecting and serving us here at home: the military, the police, the firefighters and the emergency medical workers who are always there for us when we need them, and who sometimes make the supreme sacrifice in doing their duty.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
NEVER FORGET 9-11-01
NEVER FORGET has become a motto of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon nine years ago.
Many things stick in our memory of that day: the brave words ‘Let’s Roll!’ in an airplane over the Pennsylvania countryside, the billows of smoke and ash surging through the narrow New York streets, the hole breaching our ideal of protection at the Pentagon, a mass of people walking across the Brooklyn Bridge to escape the aftermath, disbelief, horror and personal, private memories that will never fade.
We will Never Forget that day and the ones following. But let’s extend that motto to Never Forget those lost in the fighting initiated by the attacks on our country. Let’s Never Forget those lost at Pearl Harbor, D-Day, and for that matter in Hiroshima and Auschwitz; Vietnam, Korea and any and all the other times and places that people have paid the ultimate price in a conflict that someone started in the name of right and righteousness.
Let’s extend that to Never Forget the ones who rushed to help, who lost their lives trying to save others – as they do for you and you and you every time they answer a call for help every day in every part of our country.
Let’s extend that to Never Forget the civilians lost, the ones who are always the innocent victims of conflict, the ones who pay that same ultimate price only because they were there.
Because if enough of us Never Forget, maybe, just maybe, there will be enough of us to remember that maybe there’s another way, a better way, a way that doesn’t end in disbelief and horror.
And meanwhile, let’s Never Forget to honor all of those mentioned here, and do it every day in every way we can.
NEVER FORGET. 9-11-01
Many things stick in our memory of that day: the brave words ‘Let’s Roll!’ in an airplane over the Pennsylvania countryside, the billows of smoke and ash surging through the narrow New York streets, the hole breaching our ideal of protection at the Pentagon, a mass of people walking across the Brooklyn Bridge to escape the aftermath, disbelief, horror and personal, private memories that will never fade.
We will Never Forget that day and the ones following. But let’s extend that motto to Never Forget those lost in the fighting initiated by the attacks on our country. Let’s Never Forget those lost at Pearl Harbor, D-Day, and for that matter in Hiroshima and Auschwitz; Vietnam, Korea and any and all the other times and places that people have paid the ultimate price in a conflict that someone started in the name of right and righteousness.
Let’s extend that to Never Forget the ones who rushed to help, who lost their lives trying to save others – as they do for you and you and you every time they answer a call for help every day in every part of our country.
Let’s extend that to Never Forget the civilians lost, the ones who are always the innocent victims of conflict, the ones who pay that same ultimate price only because they were there.
Because if enough of us Never Forget, maybe, just maybe, there will be enough of us to remember that maybe there’s another way, a better way, a way that doesn’t end in disbelief and horror.
And meanwhile, let’s Never Forget to honor all of those mentioned here, and do it every day in every way we can.
NEVER FORGET. 9-11-01
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