spring: when rudeness is in the air
99.9% of people attend a graduation ceremony to celebrate a worthy accomplishment with friends and family, while recognizing that most everyone else there is trying to do the same thing.
Unfortunately, there is that small percentage that has to make everything all about them.  Sometimes they’re the speakers, sometimes a graduate speaker, sometimes the graduates, other times the rabble, and occasionally just an egocentric punk.
How sad it is for all the rest of the graduates and families whose celebrations are marred by rudeness.
And before you respond that it’s their “right” to “express themselves,” I suggest that the next time you’re at a wedding and the minister says to “speak now or forever hold your peace,” that you take that as an opportunity to express your world view. After your hospitalization from injuries received at the hands of one very pissed off bride, let me know how that worked out for you.
May 26th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
[...] It’s actually worse than is reported here. One of the Bad Samaritans was Mark Inglis, who just became the first double amputee to scale the world’s tallest peak.  Inglis lost his legs during a climb of New Zealand’s tallest peak and himself lived only because another climber carried him down the mountain to safety. Yet Inglis wouldn’t stop to rescue a fellow climber in similar need. [...]
March 1st, 2007 at 12:04 pm
[...] sh**: 2, here (quoting another) and here (mocking another mocking phrase) Pi**: 6, here, here, here, here, here, and here. (I didn’t even know that was one of the seven words–I’m actually surprised that my count wasn’t higher.) Fu**: 0 Cu**: 0 Co**sucker: 0 Mother ****er: 0 Ti**: 0 [...]