There are some things that really chap my hide and I'd like to share some. If you are one of those people who do this, could you kindly explain yourself so I can have a bit more sympathy for ya? Anyone else may ask their questions, too, for help in the I Understand You Now department.
First situation-
I'm at the gas pump and you pull up to get gas, but you don't pull to the front pump. You stop at the back pump. There's no one in front of you. You get out and get your gas. Well, now there is someone in front of you (surprise, surprise!) and you are reversing, making people wait, causing a general ruckus and ticking me off, too. Why don't you just PULL TO THE FRONT???? Is it really that hard to figure out??? Why? Why? Why????
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
Why are you someone who gets ticked off at other folks who don't do things the way you would do them? Do you honestly believe that others are doing things the way they do them just to annoy you?
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Example from personal experience-- I was out riding my white Arab mare in the "outskirts" near my home back in high school. I notice some boys were in a tree-d area with guns, probably hunting around for varmints of some sort. Well, apparently the new girl (that's me) with the weird breed of horse (that's Arabian instead of Quarter horse-rodeo type) that rode weird (that would be bareback, simply out of habit and it takes less time than saddling up) looked like a fun "varmint." I heard the usual laughing, talking, etc. Then I felt the .22 whiz right by my freakin' head! We took off out of there. (She was tears running out your eyes fast!) I thought, Why are guys such jerks? They were probably hoping the horse would spook or bolt and I'd fall off. Like entertainment. So, why?
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
As with just about eveything, I blame permissive parenting. Or no parenting.
That has ironic implications, though, because by standards of most control-freak-LDS parents, I'm permissive to the point of hippie (and my sons look the part.)
So here's mine: Why do you think that the world will stop if you don't have a cell phone conversation while driving? Turn your freakin phone off and pay attention to what's going on around you. Your actions might contribute to Roper the cyclilst staying alive for another day to teach children about the evils of petroleum addiction.
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
Actually, Cocobeem, your question demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the male brain. There is no "why." Those boys couldn't tell you why they did that. If you went back and asked them right then they would shrug and say "I dunno." That is honestly as deep as their thought process went that day.
(Ok, there are some boys who are that way because their mother didn't breast feed them or because she rushed their potty training, but by and large, that is just the way boys are.)
Well, anyone that would purposely shoot a firearm in the direction of someone else for some sick schadenfreude purpose is, well, sick... Of course, they may not have seen you... Did you actually see them aim in your direction and fire?
Then on the other hand, it may indeed be a site to see a cocobeem riding bareback on a white female horse that was clothed in an outskirt... they may have had a moment where they felt only they stood between life as we know it and stopping an alien invasion that was intent on stealing all the water from a glacial lake in Chile...
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Well, I'm pretty sure they saw me, because I passed by them only about 20 yards away... as I got further away I could hear the talking and laughing escalating a bit and then...MEEER!!! There it went and I was so mad I wanted to go back and tell them something, but I decided to get out instead.
Thanks, dilbert. That was funny.
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Dilbert... I completely agree with your logic! (Being the mother and adopted mom of a # of boys... it's ALL too true!)
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