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

[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.