Hey Amy!

Today I encountered two rude adults within 10 minutes of one another.  It’s almost like I should go back to bed and begin the day all over.  Here’s what happened:

Woman #1:  I am driving into the alley behind my pilates studio (well, not mine in that I own it, mine in that I go there daily to work out) and looking for one of the 5 small spaces behind the studio in which to park my car.  I notice an SUV (clearly too large for the space so she took two spaces) leaving so I reversed a bit to allow her enough room to get out.  She sat there and stared at me for a good 3 minutes.  Me, not knowing what she was trying to do, reversed a bit more thinking she needed more room.  She didn’t need more room.  She wanted to come out the direction I was coming in.  Now the alley is merely a few thousand yards and she could have just as easily gone in the other direction to go around the block but instead decided to participate in one-sided glaring contest.  When I didn’t move (still not aware of what she wanted to do), she wound down her window and proceeded to flail her arm and scream at me.  I reversed down the alley (not safe obviously) so she could get out.  She cut by my car swiftly and came very close to clipping my front end.  All this after her relaxing pilates class.  Really?

Woman #2:  I walk into pilates class and my instructor asks if I am feeling okay.  I explained my allergies and how they were bothering me, including a 24-hour period of battling a headache.  The teacher asked if there were things that bothered me and I said “any strong fragrances are never good”.  Well wouldn’t you know, a woman standing less than 2 feet from me overheard our discussion and said “Well you better go to the other side of the studio then.”  I paused for a moment and rewound her words in my mind.  I tried desperately to think that she was trying to advise me that she had a lot of perfume on but then I realized she really didn’t care and just wanted me far away from her because I was sneezing.  Allergies are not contagious.

Now, neither of these situations are life changing and of course I let it all roll off my back (or whatever that phrase is), but they are great examples of the selfish behavior of our very selfish society.  People.  Have we become so self important that the simple courtesies to our fellow man no longer exist?  Strangers are constantly telling me how polite I am.  Honestly, it bothers me.  Not because I am ungrateful for their noticing but, since others are so rude, my behavior, which should be standard for all humans, is so unusual.  How have we gotten to a place in our history that we are not kind to others?

Be good to one another.  Please.

xo–me

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