Originally Posted By: andrewg
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Stewart Fan
People in general are really starting to irritate me. America is getting dumber and more rude every day.
Its getting harder and harder to let things slide.
I'd like to pimp-slap about 25% of the population.
I'd start with the soccer moms that can't drive their huge SUVs because they have a phone in one hand and a Latte in the other.
Agreed. Check this out. People are so caught up in their own little bubble (especially with technology) that they've somewhat lost the ability to interact with each other in public. I swear, going to the grocery store is now a sociology lesson.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/rcs/2368807117.html
Read the link....typifies many trips I've had to the grocery store (in a tame way). Many will flame me for this, but it's my opinion. Here goes....I am not proud of my country anymore. Yes, the past and the many great things we've done and sacrificed for I am still proud of. But the last twenty years or so? No. We have become a shell of a nation. Our people are an embarrassment. Culture? What culture anymore? Lack of common interests and goals. Little unity. Selfish and rude toward each other....while almost taking pride in being that way. Makes me ill.
I kind of agree with that and I think a root cause is laziness. A lot of people are just way too freaking lazy.
I'm only 23, so my memories are really just of the 1990s onwards, but even in my life I've noticed a change in the general behavior of people. It seems to me that laziness has more rewards than ever these days, and some people take full advantage in every aspect of life.
A lot of people behave like a store is their house, they are the only one in it, and all the stuff is theirs. I guess it's easier to not give a [censored] than to behave in a civilized manner. Putting down your phone long enough to move your cart to the side of the aisle for another shopper doesn't take much effort by itself, but for a lot of people that minimal amount of effort is simply too much. They behave the same way in traffic...weaving across lanes with no signal, cutting people off because they weren't paying attention to the exits, and slowly pulling out in front of you at an intersection when there are no cars behind you. Then they bring it to work and that's when it really [censored] me off. I see upper level managers send out emails that are embarrassing to try to read, and who ask questions that make them look like complete idiots because they won't learn about how the company operates. God forbid they have to stay at work for more than six hours a day to do so. At the lower levels, there are people who exert so much effort trying to get other people to do their work for them, it seems like it would be easier to just do the work.
Unfortunately laziness has become a lifestyle because it's much easier to get away with than it used to be. It used to be if you were lazy at work, you got fired. When you got fired, you had to stop being lazy and go find another job because nobody else was going to support you. Now, if you're good at being lazy at work, you can get away with it for a long time. If you do end up losing your job, you can milk unemployment for a year. Not saying everyone collecting unemployment is lazy, but some do abuse it. I think a lot of people will need to drop their sense of entitlement and stop being so freaking lazy before this country can ever get back to its former glory.