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Ridiculous overheard conversations
Mar. 1st, 2013 12:46 pmFirstly, a phone conversation on the bus, where the woman across from me was bitching that it's not disrespectful to say "shut up" to somebody. How is it possibly disrespectful, when it's just shut up? Was she supposed to say "be quiet" instead? How dare this person accuse her of being disrespectful?
I longed to tell her that not only is shut up about the least polite way to tell somebody to be quiet without using profanity but that also, as she really ought to know, if somebody is in a position to tell you how disrespectful you are you shouldn't be telling them to be quiet no matter how you choose to phrase it. Then I wanted to tell her to shut up, but I refrained. Not because I have manners. It was just our stop.
Secondly, in the locker room, one of THOSE parents bitching about how hard the fourth grade tests are supposed to be this year, and she hopes the middle schools take it into account, her son barely scraped into a really really good score last year. It's okay to quietly hate this sort of person, right? By the time your kid is in school, shouldn't you have outgrown staging dramatic conversations just to brag? Can't we all just brag in the normal way? It's got to be more polite. It's certainly more honest.
I longed to tell her that not only is shut up about the least polite way to tell somebody to be quiet without using profanity but that also, as she really ought to know, if somebody is in a position to tell you how disrespectful you are you shouldn't be telling them to be quiet no matter how you choose to phrase it. Then I wanted to tell her to shut up, but I refrained. Not because I have manners. It was just our stop.
Secondly, in the locker room, one of THOSE parents bitching about how hard the fourth grade tests are supposed to be this year, and she hopes the middle schools take it into account, her son barely scraped into a really really good score last year. It's okay to quietly hate this sort of person, right? By the time your kid is in school, shouldn't you have outgrown staging dramatic conversations just to brag? Can't we all just brag in the normal way? It's got to be more polite. It's certainly more honest.
