Thursday, January 15, 2009
Sometimes I wish people would be a little more courteous and polite to one another. Life is already tough, why giving each other more grief?
I left the office and was in line at McDonald's quickly getting myself a burger to help me hold over until I can get home for dinner after classes. The lady in front of me was so rude to both the guy at the window taking her money and the guy at the window to give her her food. I kept hearing her telling the first guy "I don't want any mayo." Don't know what the deal was but she had to repeat herself a couple of times and her voice was rising by the minutes. Maybe the guy wasn't a native English speaker. Why can't she say the entire word mayonnaise? If I hadn't lived here long enough, I wouldn't have known what mayo is in the context of food, or any context for that matter. If you say something and the other person does not get it, after the second time, I would try to say it in a different way. If I used an abbreviation, I would say the whole word the second. Then when she got to the window to get her food, she also yelled at the person at this window. Her words: "I didn't want any mayo, I said no mayo, ...." The person then directed her to move forward and wait while he served the next customer. It was my turn, the guy gave me a shake instead of my burger. I calmly told him what I had order and he had no trouble giving me the correct order. Then I told him I don't understand why the lady in front of me was so rude and that I was sorry that she was rude to him. Maybe she overheard me because she had her window rolled down, or maybe I pulled up right next to her bumper, but she pulled forward out of the line to let me go on my merry way.
In class, seating was already done on the first day of class. Today, there was not enough seats in a particular row because someone had purposely ignored the seating chart and sat as they chose and wouldn't moved. Then time was up but the professor was still talking, people were closing their books and laptops, making all the noise. I don't like long winded people either but I was always willing to let people finish up with what they have to say. Grace period is 15 minutes, right? The professor was only like 2 or 3 minutes past.
I left the office and was in line at McDonald's quickly getting myself a burger to help me hold over until I can get home for dinner after classes. The lady in front of me was so rude to both the guy at the window taking her money and the guy at the window to give her her food. I kept hearing her telling the first guy "I don't want any mayo." Don't know what the deal was but she had to repeat herself a couple of times and her voice was rising by the minutes. Maybe the guy wasn't a native English speaker. Why can't she say the entire word mayonnaise? If I hadn't lived here long enough, I wouldn't have known what mayo is in the context of food, or any context for that matter. If you say something and the other person does not get it, after the second time, I would try to say it in a different way. If I used an abbreviation, I would say the whole word the second. Then when she got to the window to get her food, she also yelled at the person at this window. Her words: "I didn't want any mayo, I said no mayo, ...." The person then directed her to move forward and wait while he served the next customer. It was my turn, the guy gave me a shake instead of my burger. I calmly told him what I had order and he had no trouble giving me the correct order. Then I told him I don't understand why the lady in front of me was so rude and that I was sorry that she was rude to him. Maybe she overheard me because she had her window rolled down, or maybe I pulled up right next to her bumper, but she pulled forward out of the line to let me go on my merry way.
In class, seating was already done on the first day of class. Today, there was not enough seats in a particular row because someone had purposely ignored the seating chart and sat as they chose and wouldn't moved. Then time was up but the professor was still talking, people were closing their books and laptops, making all the noise. I don't like long winded people either but I was always willing to let people finish up with what they have to say. Grace period is 15 minutes, right? The professor was only like 2 or 3 minutes past.
