February 28, 2001
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why didn't you post was the question I kept getting yesterday.
Frankly, I was up early enough. Somewhere between 5 and 5:30
AM, somebody's friend stopped outside my window to pick them
up for some activity. Unfortunately, the person being picked
up wasn't ready, so the person in the car spent the next 30 to
40 minutes beeping his horn, in a effort, I assume, to make the
person hurry up. I hadn't noticed that I'm beginning to tune
out the car alarms because of their constant rhythm, but this
person would try all sorts of variations, including "shave
and a haircut". Having gotten to bed a bit late the previous
night, I was quite unhappy, and had difficulty in dealing with
the problem. In fact, I ended up falling back asleep and then
oversleeping, which is why I didn't post.
But I wonder, was this person being an idiot intentionally, in order to get his friend moving, or was he completely unaware that there were 500 apartments with people sleeping in them within range of his beeping horn? Is rudeness taking over this country? Have we lost all respect for others? Some of the evidence I see on the roads every day seem to point that way. People refusing to allow a person to merge, people scooting to the front of the merge lane before actually pulling in, people cruising at speed down the side of the road when traffic is stopped. Over the last 4 days, I've had 2 times when I've gotten home and found someone parked in my "reserved" parking space. Which is odd, because I have my motorcycle parked there, so it's quite plain that it's a reserved space. I was so unhappy about it last night that I parked my car directly behind the person in my space, and came up and made dinner and watched some TV before going back down and running into the kid who had parked there. I guess I should be ashamed of being rude in return for someone else's rudeness... but I'm getting tired of it.
Which is a bad attitude, I know. The good bible (and common sense) tells us to turn the other cheek. In fact, if we're ever to alter this slide into bad behaviour, we will have to be more tolerant as a society to reverse the current perceived (at least by me) trend. I'm trying to resolve to be a "kinder and gentler" Bruce. It's been hard over the last few weeks... I've been soaking a bunch of spare energy into other projects, but I really want to see if I can start a trend (at least in my own life). Wasn't there a movie recently about something like this? According to the IMDB, it's Pay it Forward. It starred Helen Hunt, Kevin Spacey and the kid who sees dead people :) Never saw the film, but I'd bet I would like it.
Oh. Today is the day that they're supposed to replace my a/c unit. We'll see. Enough for today. Sorry to whine so much.