"While its important to educate people, it's also not unreasonable to want a break from it all." Carly said it best in her Losing some but winning heaps more post.. Words can't explain how true this is!
You can't educate someone who obviously doesn't want to be educated, nor is it awful to just get fed up with stupidity sometimes and respond rudely back to the person. For the most part I try my best to be understanding and civil to ignorant people but I've definitely been known to lose my cool, flip 'em the bird (or half a bird seeing as how my fingers doesn't fully extend due to my skin not stretching!) or just get plain ol' bitchy to them.
Asking is fine, I expect people to ask. I expect people to look. However, looking and gawking are totally different. Staring stupidly even after I have said "Hey" to you is completely rude. Hitting your buddy to get his attention to look at the red girl is completely rude. If you're going to be a jerk, so am I. It may not be the high road, it might not be mature but that's me.
Since I live in such a small town, everyone basically knows me or atleast knows of me. Going to a new town is an adventure though! For the most part there are much more nice people that I meet than the rude ones... The rude ones usually are narrowed down to teenagers with their friends or arrogant guys. Very seldom do I run into a completely rude, obnoxious, middle aged person with no respect. Thank goodness!
Thank you for mentioning me here. I really don't think we should be expected to just put up and shut up.
ReplyDeleteMiddle aged people can be just as bad as teens for me. But the good people outweigh the bad for sure :)