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I want to go back to the good old days
« on: Dec 12th, 2007, 9:02pm » |
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Why is everyone in such a hurry? People are rude, always in a rush and don't give a damn about anyone around them. When I retire, I'm going to find me a town with about 50 people in it.
Sometimes I think that all of these little devices that we have invented to make our lives easier, have only allowed us to fill up our free time with more bullshit and we (I) am busier than ever! WTH?
Has technology really made us better people with more free time for ourselves or Family? I say NO!!
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« Reply #1 on: Dec 12th, 2007, 9:06pm » |
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About 49 of them will be a$$holes. he...he.. 
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on Dec 12th, 2007, 9:02pm, jimmers wrote:| Why is everyone in such a hurry? People are rude, always in a rush and don't give a damn about anyone around them. |
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Technology doesn't make us anything. WE make ourselves better people.
What we do with our time is up to us. We all choose, some more wisely than others.
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« Reply #4 on: Dec 12th, 2007, 10:41pm » |
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Don't get in too big of a hurry. I have discovered that old age ain't for sissies. 
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« Reply #5 on: Dec 12th, 2007, 11:01pm » |
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Impersonal too.
Wouldn't it be nice to hear a real person now and then when you ask for help? It's a matter of greed. You have to pay humans to answer the phone.
Everything is procedure now and any variation from stringent guidelines is considered a crime. I'm tired of being treated by pharmacists like I'm a drug peddler. 
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Re: I want to go back to the good old days
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on Dec 12th, 2007, 10:41pm, Jimi wrote:| Don't get in too big of a hurry. I have discovered that old age ain't for sissies. |
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We have Jimi blazing the trail ahead into the backwoods of age for us and I'm going to have to handle this soon myself.
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« Reply #7 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 12:03am » |
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I think it started with the guy who invented agriculture.
"See, if we plant these seeds, we can pile up all this food, and we won't have to work hard looking for stuff to eat later on."
We never should have listened to him--his descendants have been selling the virtues of labor-saving schemes and devices ever since.
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« Reply #8 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 12:06am » |
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Gettin' fat eating up all that store food before it spoils too. 
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Re: I want to go back to the good old days
« Reply #9 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 8:54am » |
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Oh, I don't know - I found a place in the country where things haven't changed much in the last 100 years or so. Neighbors still help neighbors and everyone still knows what goes on with everyone.
Heck, I got sick and lo and behold, I got a get-well card from the Postmistress and then a phone call from her to see if I needed anything. But then again - this is country....
We've all got modern conviences and computers, but we still grow gardens and make "homemade stuff" and share with each other. We still have "covered dish" dinners at the old schoolhouse (100 years old) down the road and take food to shut-in's. We check on each other and let one another know if we're gonna be out of town and for how long, so someone will keep an "eye" on our place or feed the animals while we're gone.
I love the "small" community life - it's slow and easy - everyone knows everyone. You go to the grocery store and the checker calls you by name. You need help finding something and someone takes you TO where it is. It's PERSONAL - not like the BIG cities.
Wish I'd moved here years ago -- but don't think I was ready for it then.........
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« Reply #10 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 8:59am » |
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People are rude, no getting around that, but I think it would have much more to do with their upbringing than anything else. Remember, most of our parents would not have tolerated what comes out of some peoples' mouths today.
Reminds me of an encounter I had with a cashier at Wal Mart a couple of years ago. Sarah and I were checking out and the cashier never once made eye contact, didn't speak, didn't do jackschitt. Finally Sarah had enough of the rudeness and told her, "It wouldn't hurt you to smile". Her response, "I don't get paid to smile." Needless to say that the mgr. on duty pulled the girl off the register immediately.
Another instance. I was in Brookshires and when I checked out, again, the cashier never said a word, never made eye contact (and Brookshires has a very strict policy on how their people treat customers). I went up to the service desk and asked to speak to a manager, then announced loudly enough for most people in the front of the store to hear, "If I wanted this type of damned service, I would have gone to Wal Mart".
I'm no longer amazed at how rude people are.
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« Reply #11 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 9:45am » |
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on Dec 13th, 2007, 8:59am, deltadarlin wrote:People are rude, no getting around that, but I think it would have much more to do with their upbringing than anything else. Remember, most of our parents would not have tolerated what comes out of some peoples' mouths today.
Reminds me of an encounter I had with a cashier at Wal Mart a couple of years ago. Sarah and I were checking out and the cashier never once made eye contact, didn't speak, didn't do jackschitt. Finally Sarah had enough of the rudeness and told her, "It wouldn't hurt you to smile". Her response, "I don't get paid to smile." Needless to say that the mgr. on duty pulled the girl off the register immediately.
Another instance. I was in Brookshires and when I checked out, again, the cashier never said a word, never made eye contact (and Brookshires has a very strict policy on how their people treat customers). I went up to the service desk and asked to speak to a manager, then announced loudly enough for most people in the front of the store to hear, "If I wanted this type of damned service, I would have gone to Wal Mart".
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ummm... so... you got two people fired because they didn't smile? Well I hope they weren't having a particularly bad day or a case of bells palsy
My partner Ben tells me on a regular basis how sick he is of the rude way that people treat him. He is a butcher and the store he works for demands the employees to be always pleasant and polite. There are times especially during the holidays when stress levels rise.... I guess it's a two way street....
Have you hugged your Wal-mart employee today? With what those people make and for what they have to put up with... especially during the holiday... I think they might need a hug.
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« Reply #12 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 9:54am » |
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Re: I want to go back to the good old days
« Reply #13 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 9:56am » |
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on Dec 12th, 2007, 9:02pm, jimmers wrote:Why is everyone in such a hurry? People are rude, always in a rush and don't give a damn about anyone around them. When I retire, I'm going to find me a town with about 50 people in it.
Sometimes I think that all of these little devices that we have invented to make our lives easier, have only allowed us to fill up our free time with more bullshit and we (I) am busier than ever! WTH?
Has technology really made us better people with more free time for ourselves or Family? I say NO!!
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It's not technology, it's the punishing tax burden that we are carrying. People have to work too hard and too long just to get by nowadays, so they don't have time to waste worrying about you or anybody else, it's rush,rush,rush, trying to get it all done and hopefully having time to make dinner and go to bed when they get home, just to do it all over again tomorrow.
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« Reply #14 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 10:06am » |
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I think people move around too much. Few people in the cities or burbs know their neighbors. Without roots and stability, there is no community.
My dad owns a house built for WWII vets returning home. It was a pre-fab kit house made from that fancy new metal, aluminum. It is 800 square feet. By modern standards, that is a rabbit hutch - people want 2000, 2500 feet or more. They are busy trying to pay for the house they have, or the next house they are trying to buy, and the fancy car that goes with it.
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On the other hand:
We've all but eliminated "true poverty" in our country, the poorest people in our country are the heaviest!
Our infant mortality rate is infitismally small copmpared to even 50 years ago.
We have eliminated many diseases that used to decimate populations as recently as 75 years ago. Found cures for conditions that used to be immediate death sentences.
Our quality of life is incredible compared to 50 years ago.
On the social side women were all but indentured slaves a hundred years ago and couldn't even vote. Our labor forces are protected by laws unheard of in the 30's and 40's.
I think we often times view the past through rose colored glasses. I'd like to live in Mayberry too but I wouldn't give up indoor plumbing, my 'climate controlled" car, or my DOUBLED life expectancy to get it.
On the other hand, if those damned kids don't pull their **&^^ pants up so I don't have to see their boxers I'll staple the damned thngs to their hips with a nail gun!!!!
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« Reply #16 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 10:22am » |
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It's all about attitude. I avoid places where people are crowded together, stressed out and in a hurry. 'Cause all being around that does is make me rude.
I've worked retail, grocery, and food service, so I understand what these rude people are dealing with. Sometimes, all it takes is a smile and an "I know what you're going through" to get them to smile. There is nothing like empathy to make someone's day.
Jimmers, you are right about technology... what was invented to make our lives easier, often makes it harder.
I often keep my cell off, just because I like the good old days way of being "unreachable".
Being angry about it just adds to the anger and inpatience of the world.
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« Reply #17 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 10:29am » |
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on Dec 13th, 2007, 10:19am, Guiseppi wrote:On the other hand, if those damned kids don't pull their **&^^ pants up so I don't have to see their boxers I'll staple the damned thngs to their hips with a nail gun!!!!
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LMAO... I know what you mean. However... I'd rather see their boxers due to baggy pants, than see their muffin tops and tattoos due to tight, low rise jeans.
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« Reply #18 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 10:57am » |
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I work in a Big Retail Store.
This time of year people are rude every hour of the day.
I always say to myself Don't take it personal.
That is hard to do when customers are rude and yelling. Plus the Christmas music that repeats every two hours. I work 10 hour days listening to the same music.
Home is my haven when I am not working I do not want to shop. Christmas is a wonderful time of year but it has turned very commercial and I see that end of it.
When I get home on Christmas eve I tell Barry no more Christmas music. When I arrive at work on Boxing day that will be the first thing I change is the music.
Love Christmas day with the family..
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I went to Walmart late last night (until Hubby got out of work) maybe around 9 pm. The people in front of me were checking out , I saw the cashier with her eyes closed and bending over the cash register, the people did not even looked at her...when it came my time to pay she still looked distress and I asked her if she was feeling ok and she answer : "no, I feel terrible, I feel like I am going to pass out at any time".
I asked her if she could go home and she said she needed to stay another 2 hours before she could leave home and I told her if I give her the money for those 2 hours she could go home at the same moment and she smiled at me and told me: "thanks but I have to stay if no they will fire me, we are shorthanded and they need everyone now".
I left feeling really bad for her but also because managers nowdays don't care about their workers health issues, they only see them as working machines  .
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Here are some wise, wise words. We have Uncle Jimi to thank for these:
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on Dec 13th, 2007, 11:13am, Rosybabe wrote:...I asked her if she was feeling ok and she answer : "no, I feel terrible, I feel like I am going to pass out at any time".
I asked her if she could go home and she said..... "thanks but I have to stay if no they will fire me, we are shorthanded and they need everyone now".
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I think the ribbon on top of the service the clerk provided is the increased possibility that she was able to share the "Bug" that bit her with everyone she came in contact with.
Whenever any of my staff is feeling ill, even if they want to stay, I send them home. I cannot afford for them to share a sickness with the rest of the staff or the other 200 people on this floor.
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On the other hand:
We've all but eliminated "true poverty" in our country, the poorest people in our country are the heaviest!
Our infant mortality rate is infitismally small copmpared to even 50 years ago.
We have eliminated many diseases that used to decimate populations as recently as 75 years ago. Found cures for conditions that used to be immediate death sentences.
Our quality of life is incredible compared to 50 years ago.
On the social side women were all but indentured slaves a hundred years ago and couldn't even vote. Our labor forces are protected by laws unheard of in the 30's and 40's.
I think we often times view the past through rose colored glasses. I'd like to live in Mayberry too but I wouldn't give up indoor plumbing, my 'climate controlled" car, or my DOUBLED life expectancy to get it.
On the other hand, if those damned kids don't pull their **&^^ pants up so I don't have to see their boxers I'll staple the damned thngs to their hips with a nail gun!!!!
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Joe, I love it that you always look at the glass as half full, but 100 yrs. ago there were no nail guns. LOL
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Andy "Opie, listen to your Aunt Bea now. She found a minnow in your back pocket you sat on at the dinner table yesterday?"
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« Reply #24 on: Dec 13th, 2007, 5:10pm » |
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Jimi's right -- It's all in your attitude.
Those of you who know me, know I don't drink much (not a teetotaler - I just don't drink much), but I have a client who owns several liquor stores, so at Christmas I go shopping for my other clients who drink. Well yesterday was shopping day. I shopped for about two hours and examined all the "gift" stuff they put out at Christmas. While I was doing this customers came in the store and I was so enthusied that I just had to show them all the "neat" stuff. One thing led to another and "we" sold a BUNCH of gift boxes (one lady came in for a pack of cigarettes and bought over $200 of stuff before she left) while I was shopping and everyone was laughing and having a great time. My client ended up giving me a discount on my stuff and asked if I could come back tomorrow and shop some more.
When is the last time you had a great time in a liquor store? A good attitude is contagious.
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