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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 218745" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">I just want to say that while it's easy to avoid interacting with people, it is better if we do interact with others, especially rude people. The hope is that they will see what you are seeing and change their ways. The other hopes is that cheerfulness, helpfulness and pleasantries will spread and spread the more we put it out there.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Perhaps we are simply more sensitive to it due to living with or raising difficult child's or from living with certain debilitating illnesses. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">It's so strange because at times I see people go over the top with trying to be politically correct or to help out that they actually go too far or hinder another person's goal. For instance, what is up with those "Parking reserved for parent with infant" parking spots that have a mobile sign that can be moved?? That irritates me a bit, I have to admit. I think it's over the top. I mean, c'mon already. Another example: there is a woman who is confined to a scooter in our work building. She obviously prides herself on maintaining her independence. If I wait a few minutes holding the door for her she will wave me to go and says, "I got it. Please don't wait." And one afternoon during an especially bad snowstorm last winter she was sitting in the foyer so I asked her if she needed anything and she complained that her village bus was stuck in snow and wouldn't be there for an hour. I knew where her village was located (nearby my office) and offered to take her home in my car. She seemed annoyed with me and instead of saying something like, "no but thank you for the offer" she just looked at me like I was nuts and said she'd rather wait for the bus. Okay. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">I think we have to continue to do the right thing, offer our assistance, smile at strangers and occasionally point out to the rude people the error of their ways...but with caution. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">I think leaving a note on a wrongly parked car in a handicapped space is enough. It lets them know they've been noticed doing something wrong. If that doesn't make them think twice about parking there next time, nothing will. They are simply ignorant. Hopefully, their family line will either evolve or die off. </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 218745, member: 2211"] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]I just want to say that while it's easy to avoid interacting with people, it is better if we do interact with others, especially rude people. The hope is that they will see what you are seeing and change their ways. The other hopes is that cheerfulness, helpfulness and pleasantries will spread and spread the more we put it out there.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Perhaps we are simply more sensitive to it due to living with or raising difficult child's or from living with certain debilitating illnesses. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]It's so strange because at times I see people go over the top with trying to be politically correct or to help out that they actually go too far or hinder another person's goal. For instance, what is up with those "Parking reserved for parent with infant" parking spots that have a mobile sign that can be moved?? That irritates me a bit, I have to admit. I think it's over the top. I mean, c'mon already. Another example: there is a woman who is confined to a scooter in our work building. She obviously prides herself on maintaining her independence. If I wait a few minutes holding the door for her she will wave me to go and says, "I got it. Please don't wait." And one afternoon during an especially bad snowstorm last winter she was sitting in the foyer so I asked her if she needed anything and she complained that her village bus was stuck in snow and wouldn't be there for an hour. I knew where her village was located (nearby my office) and offered to take her home in my car. She seemed annoyed with me and instead of saying something like, "no but thank you for the offer" she just looked at me like I was nuts and said she'd rather wait for the bus. Okay. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]I think we have to continue to do the right thing, offer our assistance, smile at strangers and occasionally point out to the rude people the error of their ways...but with caution. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]I think leaving a note on a wrongly parked car in a handicapped space is enough. It lets them know they've been noticed doing something wrong. If that doesn't make them think twice about parking there next time, nothing will. They are simply ignorant. Hopefully, their family line will either evolve or die off. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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