Update

[waterspyder]

1. I can't figure out how to use Facebook. Seriously. Is this a sign I'm getting old? Of course, I can also wait 10 years and have my kid explain it to me.

2. Yesterday a woman on the bus was sitting next to me and saw a man with a cane. She asked him if he needed a seat, he accepted and she turned to me and said "Well, get up!". I replied "Since you asked so nicely... No." I mean, now I have a disability and I'm pregnant, and the pregnancy has just plain made me belligerent about these matters. Someone else nearby ended up giving up their seat.

3. I eat like a hobbit. No. Really. Second breakfast and Elevenses are real meals.

4. Nutopia was fantastic. I've already deleted Saturday from memory and replaced it with reruns of Sunday. I'm down to 160 mosquito bites. I definitely needed to see everyone and recharge the batteries.

5. My dog looks like a large shaved rat. She's happy with it.

6. I'm sleeping a lot too.

7. I'm going to do the Citychase this weekend with zenten . I promised I wouldn't play to win.

Comments

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I can use Facebook. There's something seriously wrong here.

[daruba.livejournal.com]

i thought, overall, nutopia was totally thee shit. shit of course = good in this case.

[okcismelanie.livejournal.com]

Nutopia-YAY!!!

Facebook-well I used to hate it but now that I have an account I like it. I don't have all my info and family on it but it's good for friends and pictures!!

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Not impressed by "helpful" lady on bus. The really courteous thing to do is not even to ask and give up one's seat if the response is yes, but to simply recognize that he almost certainly needs a seat, and stand up and offer it to him. Giving up someone else's seat is off the bottom of the scale, close to saying "don't you wish you had a seat, sucker?"

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Since I'm not able to give up my seat, when I see someone who is in obvious need, I usually say "I have a disability and cannot stand on a moving bus, is anyone here able to help this person by giving up their seat?" and more often than not someone does.

Of course, when I was still using my cane, I got on one of the articulated buses, and couldn't even get near a seat, when a very pregnant woman who was also standing said "For god's sake people are you so inconsiderate that you won't offer your seat to a person with a cane?"
The front half of the bus cleared out (That's what I call efficiency). I sat down, thanked her and asked her if she was going to sit down too.
"Naw, I don't need a seat"

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

You should have told that lady "I'm pregnant AND disabled ... what's your excuse" ... followed by a killer glare. I can't believe she actually did that.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Well, as you can imagine, her response to "Since you asked so nicely... No" wasn't exactly polite.
"Can't you see this man needs a seat?"
"Well then, why don't you give him one? I'm pregnant and disabled."
She didn't say anything, she just acted like I was the rudest person on earth.

Normally, if someone also has a reason to be in the priority seating, they'll voice it at that point. She didn't.

I've also learned that as I get older, that my elders do not always warrant respect.

[parisbaby-2003.livejournal.com]

Damn straight to that, sistuh.

...of course, now that we're almost the "elders", what does this mean for US?

*head explody*

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I mean, I've had an older woman (easily of retirement age) interrupt me while I was at a Customer Service counter at a grocery store to inform me she was very busy and that she needed to go *right now*. I told her that I too was very busy, and that if she would wait one moment, she was next in line. This was unacceptable and she proceeded to tell me that I needed to wait because she was busy and had to be somewhere. (This grocery store is open 8am to 10pm, 7 days a week.) We spent 2 or 3 minutes with her telling me how disrespectful I was and how she was very busy. I spent 2 or 3 minutes asking her to be patient for one moment, and then the desk would be all hers. Eventually I just ignored her entirely.

I mean, if you're in a really hurry, at least have the decency to ask if it would be alright if they went ahead of you.

The irony is that I was almost done and she interrupted me midway through "I'm a little disappointed you can't help me, but thank you anyhow" at which point I would have left. She spent more time insisting and informing me that she needed to go *now* than she would have waiting for me to finish my sentence.

And I think as elders, we're going to settle into a crotchety existence where we think we world is going to hell in a handbasket because no one knows how to raise their kids anymore. The difference will be that we don't expect much from the young'uns.

[aussie-libby.livejournal.com]

This
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3. I eat like a hobbit. No. Really. Second breakfast and Elevenses are real meals.

made me laugh so hard I went and got milk cuz it felt wrong not to have some snorting out of my nose.