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posted by: lynne (reply) post date: 08.05.04 (5:34 am) I have a big pet peeve about people who take things out of their packaging at shops. Usually because they are too lazy to look around where they will almost certainly find the item out on display. posted by: Mimi (reply) post date: 08.05.04 (6:51 am) i just soooo dislike "rude" people anywhere, anytime!!!!! posted by: badaunt (reply) post date: 08.05.04 (6:57 am) When some countryman (or woman) does something utterly crass like that, do you get the urge to make a public speech of apology on behalf of your entire country? Or is that just a Kiwi thing? (Or maybe just me - I was brought up to feel guilty about practically everything.) posted by: Andaloo (reply) post date: 08.05.04 (8:40 am) Reply to: badaunt You do that too! I thought it was a Brit thing. Lots of times people here in Blog land have said "why on earth are you apologising?" I just reply, "because I'm a Brit, it's what we do". As for seeing Brits doing crass things; Living where I do I see it all too often...sadly. Why do we wear things on holiday that we wouldn't dream of wearing at home? Ahh there's a whole new post in *that* one! posted by: mblog (reply) post date: 08.05.04 (9:18 am) You should have told him to wait a moment while you get the shopkeeper to help him...and have him arrested. posted by: badaunt (reply) post date: 08.05.04 (9:33 am) Reply to: Andaloo I don't get to see it too often, but that's just because there aren't all that many Kiwis around here. But when it happens, it seems to happen particularly nastily. The most memorable one was a woman who took two jobs at the same time at different universities (getting paid for both, of course). She used to rush into one place early, clock in, write instructions on the board for the students, then rush to the other place and clock in and teach those classes. She'd do it the other way around the next week. It was six months before her students complained and she got caught. I was mortified and apologized to everybody. She wasn't, and didn't. posted by: TorryGirl (reply) post date: 08.05.04 (3:03 pm) I'm adding this to my list of things that irritate me - but it all really boils down to people with no respect for anything that is not their own. I get so angry with people like that. Honestly, how hard is it to ask someone a question? It's a lot less effort than slashing at a dozen boxes and damaging hundreds of dollars worth of good in the process. posted by: SusanofPudlin (reply) post date: 08.05.04 (5:45 pm) Look, Arseholes are a universal. We are not responsible! Nuff said. I would have walked up to said gaping flamer and said: apparently, you went through how many grades of school and still cannot read? Were you raised by wolves or what? By the way, are you still beating your wife? Shame about your luck in the "endowment' department. Apparently when they were handing out ... nevermind, I could get gross here. Suffice it to say, I would have had my nose punched to be sure. posted by: aWindow (reply) post date: 08.06.04 (4:27 pm) I remember when I was 8, we went on a school trip to France... the last thing my mother told me before I got on the couch was "now you are an embassador for your country, how you carry yourself there is how they would get to know the rest of us here". posted by: xXoNtHeMeNdXx (reply) post date: 08.09.04 (2:35 pm) How did you keep the giggles away in this quite humorous situation? Perhaps it is only humorous after the fact and from where I am sitting. There's no accounting for taste. Thanks for sharing this moment. |
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