angry and insane pedestrian follows me to work and complains to my boss
07-14-11, 05:01 AM
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good read. i was hoping for a twist ending to this thread like the op revealed he really did steal her purse, or that the op was actually the lady posting this to test people or something. the deliberate generality of the story (withholding the location, how old are any of the characters actually?, etc), makes it easier for readers to imagine themselves in the scenario (as the pedestrian, as the boss, or as the op). i think it should be produced for the stage, complete with the chorus of posters reacting to the action of course.
07-14-11, 05:20 AM
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glad I could get you off...now that you've had to replace a ruined keyboard, you are a true BFer!
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"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws" - Edward Abbey
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07-14-11, 07:23 AM
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Ad-hominem points (suppositions about my age; presumptions about my upbringing) can't carry you far in a conversation. I can assume you're white, male, sixty-plus years of age; generally disillusioned by culture and annoyed by what you see as an irreverance in youth, which was happily absent a time ago. As well, you could be a sixteen-year-old girl, perhaps Mexican, in the second-floor bedroom of a Chicago apartment, who happens to feel much the same way, if from different experiences. It really doesn't bear on my regard for your position. Recall, I didn't ask you for evidence to back up your presentation of "days past"; I said it's impertinent to me whether the depiction is accurate.
I think you've lost yourself in your upset about this topic. As much is evident in the banalities you've dropped about manners and mores (not, mind you, about respect). Somewhere, maybe early, in this sickly-bloated thread, you firmly fixed yourself to making the original post an issue about age rather than about anything else. I'll briefly play the game you started, of picking on my years (to which you can naught but guess) rather than my thoughts, and suggest you're more than a little sad about not being treated the way you'd like to be. Maybe your family doesn't talk to you as you'd like; maybe your kids don't; maybe your grandkids are rapscallions; maybe the neighbors irritate you with their tone; maybe it's the news or the movies or just some unfortunate illusion in your mind. It doesn't matter.
If your feeling is that the line of what bounds acceptable conduct repositions per someone's age, you're wrong — and that is your feeling: Several times you've begun with the generality of treating persons with politeness and respect, then quickly blended in your point that special consideration must be granted from the age-difference between a pair. You're wrong; any bitterness, desperation, and else you might carry around will not take you nearer to being right.
Unless something new and interesting is said, I think I'll extract myself from this discussion, here.
I think you've lost yourself in your upset about this topic. As much is evident in the banalities you've dropped about manners and mores (not, mind you, about respect). Somewhere, maybe early, in this sickly-bloated thread, you firmly fixed yourself to making the original post an issue about age rather than about anything else. I'll briefly play the game you started, of picking on my years (to which you can naught but guess) rather than my thoughts, and suggest you're more than a little sad about not being treated the way you'd like to be. Maybe your family doesn't talk to you as you'd like; maybe your kids don't; maybe your grandkids are rapscallions; maybe the neighbors irritate you with their tone; maybe it's the news or the movies or just some unfortunate illusion in your mind. It doesn't matter.
If your feeling is that the line of what bounds acceptable conduct repositions per someone's age, you're wrong — and that is your feeling: Several times you've begun with the generality of treating persons with politeness and respect, then quickly blended in your point that special consideration must be granted from the age-difference between a pair. You're wrong; any bitterness, desperation, and else you might carry around will not take you nearer to being right.
Unless something new and interesting is said, I think I'll extract myself from this discussion, here.
Respect is all about manners and mores--at least as it applies to strangers...
Sorry I am not wrong about what used to be considered (and still is by the civilized) polite behavior. And your insistance that such behavior is granting "special privileges" just underscores that you don't get it. You seem typical of your generation. Which frankly is something that hasn't changed over time, but what has changed is we now allow the young to set the acceptable standards for a society... Well that isn't really true, we just let the lowest common denominator define "acceptable" in almost any situation.
Oh, and I have no problem with how I am treated... Perhaps you missed my point that such uncivil behavior is simply a reflection of the character of the uncivil individual (that and how they were raised). You do seem to have a tendency to put a personal spin on things... Perhaps you are sensitive about your own age and manners... Perhaps you've heard the "respect for your elders" from a family member and feel a little guilty about your own behavior...
On a related note, there was a story in my local paper about a mother who was upset because an emergency room doctor gave her a "prescription" for her son... He is in need of a spanking... The reaction. The doctor was terminated and the women (who described herself as overprotective) is of course suing the hospital for monetary compensation... I don't think there can be any doubt that the doctor simply pointed out the obvious. Or that the child is likely to grow up to be much like the OP (or even worse)...
07-14-11, 07:28 AM
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Maybe she will get what's coming.
07-14-11, 07:36 AM
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The thread isn't over until someone gets a spanking...
07-14-11, 07:44 AM
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now you're just trying to turn me on
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07-14-11, 08:05 AM
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Have we successfully scared the OP off yet?
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07-14-11, 03:59 PM
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07-14-11, 08:18 PM
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Not to mention the possibility of a butchers wife/carving knife fiasco.
07-14-11, 08:25 PM
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Now leave him alone.I think chip projects a certain.....Rugged masculinity,kind of an older Brad Pitt.Silky locks that shines with a brilliant radiance that comes from within...Or something like that.
07-14-11, 08:36 PM
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07-14-11, 08:47 PM
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I was thinking more like this. Posting because I wanna see Chip as Margaret Thatcher.
07-14-11, 09:00 PM
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^^^^^lololol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
07-15-11, 05:57 AM
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I'm sure there is still lots of room in there for his buddies too!
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07-15-11, 06:36 AM
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I don't know about you, but this thread is eating into my spank-the-monkey time
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"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws" - Edward Abbey
07-15-11, 07:02 AM
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07-15-11, 07:43 AM
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Image preview is a great tool.......
07-15-11, 07:47 AM
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07-15-11, 02:14 PM
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I listen to music while I ride with ear buds. That blocks out all of the 'compliments' that I recieve during the ride. It's never a good idea to respond to someone's criticism in the manner you described. It can only lead to trouble or an altercation. Blow them a kiss and keep on going.
Ride safe,
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07-15-11, 03:27 PM
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If someone follows you to work or home to harass you, call the cops. In my province, your employer has a duty to protect you from workplace harassment incurred by co-workers or by customers. Following an employee to his workplace and trying to get him fired is ridiculous unless you can prove the employee was working at the time. Riding a bike while wearing a fast food uniform top is rarely a job pre-requisite and the lady behaved foolishly. In university I managed a gift shop and had to call the police twice one summer because a couple of workers were followed (and in one girl's case, stalked and assaulted) by a couple of random idiots. One worker, while wearing the uniform tshirt, sat down in the subway on the way to work and was accused of taking the seat from a guy who saw it from across the subway car. The guy followed the worker to the gift shop, yelling rude names and insults at him, all the way into the store. He demanded I fire the worker for theft of his seat. I called the police when he refused to leave. The girl's situation was far worse and I won't get into it but, again, it was sparked because she wore her uniform tshirt to work. In both cases, the workers did swear at their harassers after being insulted and harassed but I don't blame them in the least.