TK421 wrote: “What we permit is how people will treat you.” ....
That's a good one.
TK421 wrote: “What we permit is how people will treat you.” ....
Mynock wrote:There's a good Chinese place right up from where I work, they have online ordering so it's a good place to get food quick if you order early.
I show up a little after noon expecting to just grab pay and go.....but this chick walked in right in front of me:
"Hi! I know it's your busiest time of the day? But I'm gonna stand here with a menu holding up your pickup line for 10 minutes and order one of everything on the menu ok? Oh while I'm ordering I'm gonna ask you weird health questions about everything I'm ordering ok? Oh wait that total is too much.....hmmm.....let me see what we can take off here?"
Theo wrote: ....I find It funny how the number of people lecturing everyone about tolerance is inversely proportional to how tolerant people actually are. Here’s an idea: maybe people should spend less time in safe spaces, and more time in the real world, with other people with different ideas? I also read something once that said something like: “people are more intelligent than ever today.” Personally, I see little if any evidence of that. ...
dlodoski wrote:I think this gets to one of the major issues fueling the problem. I know for a fact that my people skills have diminished quite a bit since I stopped working in an organized environment. As it happens, my wife, for whom English is a third language, and has every reason to be timid, is now better with people now than I am (she works in a hospital and interacts with dozens of people a day). So, as technology makes us 'smarter', it tends to isolate us socially - much to our detriment.
It works with race as well. As I high schooler, I was generally wary of blacks. But then I worked as a prep cook in a restaurant in Southfield that was close enough to Detroit that half of the kitchen was black. And I ended up getting along really well with one of the older ladies there. That was really formative for me. I read a while back about a program that had Israeli and Palestinian kids going to camp together, based on the same principle.
But unfortunately, things are getting more tribal nowadays, not less. I don't see how it's going to get turned around, which is sad.
Mynock wrote:Once upon a time this morning I piloted an automobile borrowed from my dear brother into a fueling station after doing some errands. My intent was only to do the gentlemanly thing and return his much loved conveyance with a full tank, but as I activated the pump, out of nowhere, there came an unearthly howl...
Boggy Man wrote:If you had realized the misunderstanding sooner, you could have let her call the police, and have a front-row seat to watching her embarrass herself in front of the authorities!
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