Posted by Dr. Bob on March 26, 2002, at 18:31:09
[Posted by beardedlady on March 26, 2002, at 6:04:49
In reply to http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20020322/msgs/100120.html]
> Oh, Dinah! That's just ridiculous! It's perfectly okay not to be enamored of the human race. I treat everyone with respect and compassion; I find that most people don't treat each other that way.
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> In my post office the other day (yes, always count on the post office for a good glimpse of human race), one of the cashiers was asked for change by a woman who had just bought something. She said, "I don't have any change to give you." The woman said, "Well, I could have paid with my ten and gotten change, but I forgot I needed it." "Then you should've paid with your ten," the cashier replied.
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> Bear with me, Dr. Bob. Meds are coming!
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> Next, a woman walked in with a tiny dog in her arms--tiny! The other cashier said, loudly, "You can't bring the dog in." The woman said, "She's just a tiny baby, and I can't leave her alone in my car. Can I please get a stamp?" "Ma'am, I will not wait on you with a dog. There's a sign on the door." (If you think the cashier was being polite and following the rules, you didn't hear her tone of voice and see the expression on her face.) Now I know about rules, and I would be one (a dog lover) to bend them, but that's not what I'm talking about. A compassionate response, a kind response, a friendly tone of voice and a reply, "I'm sorry, Ma'am. I am not allowed to wait on you with a dog, no matter how tiny."
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> This box in front of me, this ugly glaring screen, is responsible for so many woes. People spend so much time in front of it (and the television--blech!) that they don't know how to interact with one another in public! People don't want to share their spaces on this earth. They want everything around them to be a cubicle all their own.
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> And I don't think my comments really qualify as "judging." I'm not looking at a fat person and saying, "Ew, you are fat." (I am fat! I go to Weight Watchers right now because my pregnancy fat won't go away, especially with this med.) (Meds, Dr. Bob! More to come!) I'm talking about the combo--fat, lazy, stupid. Members of my family are severly overweight, but they work hard and conscientiously and are smart.
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> But this country has a fast food mentality. Our children our getting type 2 diabetes at an alarming rate. Parents are killing their children (and their pets!) with crap food because they don't want to hurt their kids' feelings! There's some of the fat, lazy, stupid that I'm talking about.
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> As for "Rosanne": funny show, rude people. They treated each other with humor but without kindness. They ate crap. They watched crap. And they didn't do crap with their kids.
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> In spite of the fact that I SOUND like a misanthrope, I am not. I have a trillion friends! Okay, maybe not a trillion. But I had 200 people at my wedding, and 75 of them were close friends. I am one of the first instructors of my course to fill a class. And I meet new people and make new friends all the time.
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> I think I know who Daria is (an MTV cartoon?). You would probably find that I am just like her. I don't go outside every day seething with contempt for the human race, but I don't find anything redeeming about the humanity of people who are just plain rude, who throw trash out their car windows while cutting you off and talking on their cell phones, who can't say excuse me or thank you or please.
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> (For Dr. Bob) They need to take a pill! (Or else we can get Hannibal Lechter to eat them!)
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> Anyway, the point of my post was that there is nothing chemically or physically wrong with most of the people who feel this way. We are simply elitists!
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> beardy : )>
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