Be prepared and give us a break

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Lon

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When you checkout at the Market have your credit card, pin number etc. ready to go instead of fumbling around on your cell to tell spouse that your card was not accepted. People are lined up behind you and they are prepared and ready to go. Know what you want when you go to the Fast Food Drive Through. Don't ask the help for suggestions or spend time discussing food items. Order your meal and get on with it, there a a zillion cars lined up behind you.
 

If someone you don't know speaks to you in line. Please be nice. It might be me. I have found having general conversations while standing in along line a nice way to pass the time. Do you do this or are you one of those who look at me like I dropped from Mars? I can't see that a remark like "It's beautiful weather outside" is going to offend or scare anyone. Every watch children in carts? They love a smile or "Hi Cutie!". Just my rambling thoughts.
 
Lon said:
When you checkout at the Market have your credit card, pin number etc. ready to go instead of fumbling around on your cell to tell spouse that your card was not accepted. People are lined up behind you and they are prepared and ready to go. Know what you want when you go to the Fast Food Drive Through. Don't ask the help for suggestions or spend time discussing food items. Order your meal and get on with it, there a a zillion cars lined up behind you.
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Hear Hear!! And that includes writing a check......sometimes for just a couple of small items. You could have paid cash for them,
with no frustrated customers behind you.
 
Lon said:
When you checkout at the Market have your credit card, pin number etc. ready to go instead of fumbling around on your cell to tell spouse that your card was not accepted. People are lined up behind you and they are prepared and ready to go. Know what you want when you go to the Fast Food Drive Through. Don't ask the help for suggestions or spend time discussing food items. Order your meal and get on with it, there a a zillion cars lined up behind you.
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This sounds a bit like an order Lon! GULP.Sometimes we have to be a bit patient don't we?At least, being retired, most of us don't need to rush as much as we used to.
 
oakapple said:
This sounds a bit like an order Lon! GULP.Sometimes we have to be a bit patient don't we?At least, being retired, most of us don't need to rush as much as we used to.
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Being patient and not in a rush is one thing and being inconsiderate of other people is another. People that go un prepared for what they know in advance is required are very inconsiderate of others and deserve a mild flogging.
 
Lon said:
Being patient and not in a rush is one thing and being inconsiderate of other people is another. People that go un prepared for what they know in advance is required are very inconsiderate of others and deserve a mild flogging.
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How much fun it would be if we could actually pull out a flogger and flog the culprit. :hee:
 
On the other hand . . . . “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers


 
Lon said:
Being patient and not in a rush is one thing and being inconsiderate of other people is another. People that go un prepared for what they know in advance is required are very inconsiderate of others and deserve a mild flogging.
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Wow - that trait could be applied to SO many things ...

All the folks that live in the flood zone here in PA - thousands of families and businesses - certainly are aware that there are major floods every few years, yet they insist on staying where they are. I've often questioned why, but never received a satisfactory answer ...

All the people who know that speed kills, yet insist on speeding and taking out not only themselves but a few innocents as well ...

All the people who own porcupines as pets, yet have not a single Band-Aid in the medicine cabinet ...

FLOG 'EM ALL! :eek:
 
I think, depending on where a person lives, even making a nice comment to a stranger can make them wonder about you. As I tell everyone in our age bracket, "we are no longer living in the Lassie/Rin Tin Tin days when folks were really friendly to each other". I was raised outside a small town in Indiana and pretty much everyone in that town knew us. Could always see folks talking to each other. Wife was raised in the same type of environment. When we say something to strangers at Wal Mart or anywhere else, we can get that "look" of "are you talking to me?".

Heck, I remember living in So California and stopping by a Post Office. While leaving, I said to this lady going in, "good morning, mame". She turned around and looked at me, pretty sternly, and said "we don't say good morning here and please don't call me mame, I'm not an old lady". She walked into the Post Office with a "disgusted" look on her face.

As far as this Thread goes.........YES, by all means, HURRY YOUR BUTT UP! Wife and I have an NFL game to watch! LOL
 
Being OCD and a stickler for organization married to a woman with the patience of Job has it's ups and downs. In a convenience store in Kentucky I was getting frustrated while my wife fumbled in her purse for small change. The young girl behind the counter looked at me with a friendly smile and said, 'Relax, I'm not going anywhere'.

My folding money is arranged in order in my wallet, I try to have exactly $1.00 (including 5 pennies,,,etc) in change in my right pocket always on the ready. It's hell living in my mind.
 
Son_of_Perdition said:
Being OCD and a stickler for organization married to a woman with the patience of Job has it's ups and downs. In a convenience store in Kentucky I was getting frustrated while my wife fumbled in her purse for small change. The young girl behind the counter looked at me with a friendly smile and said, 'Relax, I'm not going anywhere'.

My folding money is arranged in order in my wallet, I try to have exactly $1.00 (including 5 pennies,,,etc) in change in my right pocket always on the ready. It's hell living in my mind.
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That's sounds very exacting for you, do you feel worried if you don't have any change in your pocket?Once upon a time, everyone seemed to have a more relaxed approach to life, even here in England[which has never been as friendly to strangers as in the US.]I always say hello to a shop assistant [they are human beings after all] but I have noticed that although they reply or at least smile [usually] they never say goodbye or thank you like they used to do.Thanking us for our custom seems to have vanished, and it's as if we are the ones doing them and their store a favour.
 
My late husband would always wait until the bill was added up before writing a check... very irritating and nothing I said would get him to change! I get cash from the ATM and by pass using any cards. Just easier for me.
 

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