Life Is Not Purgatory
Friday, April 30, 2004
I Am Lazarus’ Boiling Rage
There was an incident at Boston Pizza’s last night between Dave, Co-Co and myself. Apparently according to Dave, I went “a tad too far”. I don’t agree, go figure.
If I am in the middle of an discussion dealing with one of my hot-button topics (in this case pontificating on our legal system and child pornography and rape in specific) someone outside the discussion, interrupting me in mid-point to ask a question completely unrelated to the discussion is both rude and disruptive to the conversation. The least that could be done is to wait for the current point to be made and then excuse yourself and then interject with the question:
- Pardon me, but (Name)…
- Excuse me, but (Name)…
- (Name), excuse me but…
Not:
"Do you know if (Other Person – [who I don’t really know that well]) is coming here tonight, he’s supposed to?"That’s rude.
When I’m on the phone for work then start to talk at me and I indicate to wait a minute, parroting my gesture back at me - when you are going to be asking me to do a favour for you is also rude.
When I place a call to the only person I know, that I believe would be with (Other Person), and you dismiss it as ‘giving up’ when it kicks directly into voicemail is also rude.
When after all of this, you persist and ask to borrow my cell phone to call people, then proceed to pour over my phone list with heavy amounts of sarcasm and dumbass giggling without actually USING the phone… that too is rude.
When all this is done without a single please or thank you – I have a right to be mad, and I still am. I'll demand my cell phone that you are 'playing with' back, and let you know how entirely displeased I am withthe entire debacle. If that's going to far, too damned bad.
There was an incident at Boston Pizza’s last night between Dave, Co-Co and myself. Apparently according to Dave, I went “a tad too far”. I don’t agree, go figure.
If I am in the middle of an discussion dealing with one of my hot-button topics (in this case pontificating on our legal system and child pornography and rape in specific) someone outside the discussion, interrupting me in mid-point to ask a question completely unrelated to the discussion is both rude and disruptive to the conversation. The least that could be done is to wait for the current point to be made and then excuse yourself and then interject with the question:
- Pardon me, but (Name)…
- Excuse me, but (Name)…
- (Name), excuse me but…
Not:
"Do you know if (Other Person – [who I don’t really know that well]) is coming here tonight, he’s supposed to?"That’s rude.
When I’m on the phone for work then start to talk at me and I indicate to wait a minute, parroting my gesture back at me - when you are going to be asking me to do a favour for you is also rude.
When I place a call to the only person I know, that I believe would be with (Other Person), and you dismiss it as ‘giving up’ when it kicks directly into voicemail is also rude.
When after all of this, you persist and ask to borrow my cell phone to call people, then proceed to pour over my phone list with heavy amounts of sarcasm and dumbass giggling without actually USING the phone… that too is rude.
When all this is done without a single please or thank you – I have a right to be mad, and I still am. I'll demand my cell phone that you are 'playing with' back, and let you know how entirely displeased I am withthe entire debacle. If that's going to far, too damned bad.
