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A Lesson in Manners and Socially Appropriate Behaviors- a ranty rant of rantness

5/18/2014

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First and foremost, this is rant. A big ranty rant. A ranty rant of rantness.

I spend a lot of time in Starbucks. Seriously. Between Monday nights at the SB Cafe in Barnes and Noble and the late nights at the 24 hour one, I'm there more often than not. If I'm not there, I'm at Panera or, here recently, the 24 hour Dunkin Donuts. Needless to say, I spend time in the coffee shops writing. I get more work done there than anywhere else. Because of my introverted nature (an INFJ on the Myers-Briggs scale), I watch people and I listen. Here recently, I've noticed that people are forgetting what is socially appropriate and what is not and, honestly, it is quite disturbing and irritating. It is common sense. You would think people out in public would act like adults, right? So here is a list that I have compiled on the things that I have seen in the past month and my rants with each.


1. When some one holds the door for you, you say “Thank you.” You are not so important that you can't have a little bit of courtesy when some one does something that nice for you. I could let it slam in your face and make you spill your four venti coffees all over the place.

2. Get off your phone while you are ordering something. The baristas had stuff to do, I have stuff to do and that doesn't include waiting fifteen minutes while you jabber on about your club night. While we are on the subject don't get pissy with me when I say “excuse me, could you order because there are four people behind you.”

3. If you are taking my order, get off your phone. I may still be deciding what I want, but you should not have your phone in your hand while working in the first place, unless it is an emergency. If I have to say “Okay I'm ready to order” three times before you look up ,you need to not be behind the counter. I'm looking at you cashier at Baja Fresh.

4. Don't be a jerk to your server if the kitchen messes up your food. It is not the server's fault. In the state of Virginia, the wage for a server is $2.15 an hour. Everything else is tips. They want you to be happy so you will tip them. So be nice. Also, do the math when you tip. I have found that the computer automated tip calculator is short changing the servers by $.11-.25 every check. I've complained about this so many times.

5. When you are dining, use your freaking fork and knife to cut your food properly, especially when you are dining with another person. Spearing a large chunk of meat on your fork and holding it the air as you rip slobbery bites off is not only rude and socially inappropriate, it is disgusting. I mean, seriously disgusting. I don't want to see lines of spit connecting your food and lips as you pull away. Have some manners and courtesy for your fellow diners.

6. When on an escalator, stand to the right so people can pass you on the left.

7. Think before you speak in public, even when you are with a group of people you are familiar with. If it is going to offend or upset some one, don't say it. For instance, saying sexual innuendos to people you do not know very well. This is very uncomfortable.

8. Smoking in non-designated areas. I understand that this must suck for a smoker, however, you need to realize that you stink and I don't want to walk through a cloud of nasty smoke on my way to the store, especially since I'm an asthmatic. I'm looking at you Giant employees. You can be on your break all you want, but when your rude ass won't let the mother with three small kids have the weird oversized basket because you are too busy sitting on it smoking, you need to rethink the image you are presenting.

9. Picking your nose in public is nasty. Seriously. I mean, ew. Do that in the bathroom. Just because you are in a car on the highway does not mean people can not see you picking a winner.

10. If some one is kind enough to drive you places, you need to have enough decency to offer to give them gas money.

11. Just because people you know are making plans, does not mean you are automatically invited to join. People are allowed to make plans on their own. If you were going to be included in those plans, you would have received an invite. You should not assume you are invited. Not only is this rude, it makes it incredibly difficult for the other person/group who is/are now put in a bind. It is incredibly awkward to have to tell some one, “I'm sorry, but you are not invited.” then have to deal with hurt feelings. The situation could be avoided all together if you wouldn't assume.

12. If some one lets you over in traffic, the proper thing to do is wave. If you don't wave, I should be allowed to run you over. Just sayin.

13. Also, if you have a “Baby on Board” sticker and you drive like a stupid idiot, I should be allowed to report you and have you brought up on child endangerment charges.

14. Body Odor. For the love of everyone’s olfactory glands, wear deodorant. Axe body spray does not fall into this category.

15. If you walk your 60lb, not leash trained dog on a flexi-lead, and wonder why you can't control her, and not listen to what four, FOUR neighbors say to you, you don't need to own a dog. When you dog breaks her leash again and tries to go after my dog, I'm going to punch you in the fucking face and you are going to be paying the medical bills.

16.And finally, if you go to Starbucks to play cards, loudly, ever freaking night, you need to have some courtesy for people who are there to work/write/study. Being obnoxiously loud and constantly banging on the table is not courteous.


So these are my rants. Take them or leave them. I've just had it with rude people.




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I am a Jedi, Like My Father Before Me

5/4/2014

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May the fourth be with you!

Is it really May already? Holy smokes! It is hard to believe. Spring has seemed to arrive as well. The birds are singing, the flowers are in bloom and there is a nice yellow sheen of tree sperm all over the place. The days are beautiful and sunny. Of course, I don't really get to enjoy it much because I am allergic to said tree sperm. My eyes are swollen and watery. My nose is either running like a faucet or stuffed. And there is the random sneezing fits. I hate spring. I hate it. I hate it like Cecil hates Steve Carlsburg.

Anyhow, so I'm actually starting to get the creative juices flowing. I'm all healed up from my surgery. Yay! That is exciting. I've got some pretty knarly battle wounds but all is well. So now I can get my focus back to where it needs to be and that is gym and writing. I've been working on a science fiction novel idea for a while. The task I set myself on was to get all the research done, develop my character, and get a working plot before November. Sounds easy, right? Well, therein lies my problem. The timing. I got so caught up in research and the science part that I forgot the fiction part. I have been fussing about plots and time travel and all sorts of stuff for the past couple of months. I think I made it a bit too hard on myself because, once again, I got caught up in the research. This time, I couldn't help it. This is a subject I love, but when it is two in the morning and I'm neck deep into a Wikipedia page about multi-verse theory and wondering how that could fit into my story. I was stressing, once again, when I got the best piece of advice. Here it is: “Nobody cares about the sheep as much as I do.”

Don't worry if you don't understand the reference. There are only a couple of people who do. Essentially, all the little intricate details that I want to put into the story do not really matter all that much in the end. I may care about the exact science of terraforming a planet, but who else does? If I try putting that into my novel, it would kill the flow of the story and would need to edited out. So, that being said, I decided that I really didn't need a list of all the geographical features of all the planets and the moons and yada yada yada and I really needed to focus more on, I don't know, a plot and character development.

On the non-creative part of my life, I have decided I want to run a 5k......I'll wait until you stop laughing.....as I was saying, I want to run a 5k. I want to do the Color Run in Richmond in September. I found a program called “Couch to 5K”. It is designed to gradually train you to run. I looked into the time line they have and it looks like something I can do. The program itself is to train you in 9 weeks. I have a couple of months. I'm hoping that this will keep me on track. This is will also help me lose weight as well, which is a yearly goal for me.

So here are my monthly goals.

1. Continue work on world building, character development, and get a basic outline going for my sci-fi novel. I want to start actually start writing this one in July for the next Camp NaNo.

2. Couch to 5k.

3. Finish this daggone blanket.

P.S. I'm writing this blog post after a night of no sleep. So if you see mistakes, I don't even care. 

 

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