People with lack of manners and courtesy

[pabloescobar209]

lol i didnt say anything about craziness. just nicer...

[LuckyG]

I love doing nice things for people. I know how great it feels even when someone just holds the door open for you or puts a hand on your shoulder to show they care, and I love to give other people that feeling. It feels nice to do nice things for nice people. And trust me, what goes around comes around. I'm continually surprised by the nice things some people do for me out of the blue.

A lot of the people who think that I'm now a "sketchy guy" because I toke are some of the rudest people I know. Psst - don't tell them, but I'm not always baked when they think I am, and I'm not always sober when they think I am. Ganja doesn't really have a short-term effect on my personality. I guess that's another nice thing that I do - I give self-centered people who are insecure about their drinking problems a place to point the finger.

[higher4hockey]

pablo is right, the farther you get from a city, the nicer peole are.

my good deeds are usually auto related, i'll stop if someone is busted down, and i've enver passed up a hitch-hiker

[stinkyattic]

lol me too- I met one of my best friends when I stopped to see why she was standing by the side of the road next to her street bike looking irritated (turned out to be son-related, but still), and recently stopped on I-395 just in time to keep some poor dude from jumping HIS bike off his girlfriend's 12v car battery. Luckily I had the Ninja out that day, the car guy had jumper cables, everyone went home happy. Honestly the guy looked really surprised too- this was in Boston, where drivers pretty much expect everyone else on the road to be a total prick.

[higher4hockey]

i picked up hitchker after a skynryd concert a few years ago. this guy was so thankful that i picked him up, he kept telling me and my buddy that 'you just dont find people like you two anymore.' he told us we were good people a few times, and then when we dropped him off at a bar, he invited us in and bought us a beer.

gratitude is a nice thing!

[birdgirl73]

Gratitude is a nice thing! And you remind me, H4H, of the gentleman who, when I was 9 months pregnant one very hot late-spring afternoon and had a tire-blowout on one of the biggest freeways in Dallas, stopped and helped me get my car safely off the road, then gave me a ride to where my husband was. He could have so easily driven right past me like so many hundreds of others did, but he took the time to stop. I thanked him profusely then and later sent him a thank you card and gift certificate when I was able to track him down. I will forever be grateful that he took the time to help me. I will also be forever grateful that he wasn't an axe murderer or predator. I have never been able to pass up people with disabled cars since that time, which is my way of passing it forward.

[Chronisseur]

I was on my way to Miami on 95 south, after pulling out of a rest area, I saw a car roll atleast 6 times to this day I dont know if it was a van or suv but IT WAS FUCKED!
Anyway, the point of my story is that had I not stopped, its very likely both passengers would not have made it. It took me atleast 30 minutes and about 30 passing cars, to FINALLY get someone to stop. Now keep in mind, each of those cars was well aware of an accident as they literaly drove over the peoples belongings which were scattered throughout the street. Regardless how good it felt to be the "hero", the helpless abandoned feeling that I felt that night will never be forgotten.

ps: it was 2 am and my cell didnt have service!

[vingt.trois]

i live in chicago, and i commute mostly by public transit and bicycle to school/work. i work at the frontend of a drug store. i have looooads of lack-of-common-decency horror stories. :P

the original post filled me with rage because i've experienced the same scenarios, pretty much every day during the school year. you'd think people who take public transportation every day would learn how to fucking ride it and make room for other patrons.

[FakeBoobsRule]

OK, this is what I find annoying and a lack of manners and common sense. I hate it when you're on an elevator and when the doors open, especially in the lobby, you try to get off but people want to try to get in before you get out. Why not let the people in the tiny little elevator clear out into the big space like the lobby and give the new people plenty of room. Instead they want to try to contort themselves by you and the doors or just cause a massive jam up anyway.

[Acouwaila]

Id probably offer my seat to ANY woman standing on a sub or bus....maybe disabled, elderly, and definately pregnant men!