No but I hope this isn't one of these places where it's a put down if you mention you try to be conservative with resources.
I, too, feel a bit lost in today's society. Is it too much to simply respond when spoken to? Have basic manners simply been replaced by poor manners exhibited on televisions reality shows? Sigh.
Instead of an appropriate answer from service people, restaurants, for example, you will get a "No Problem" response. Ridiculous, is it not?
Ha, that's one of my pet peeves, as well. I bite my tongue instead of telling them it shouldn't be a problem, since they're employed to provide a service. If I'm having a rough day, I'm sometimes tempted to tell them it's a good thing it wasn't a problem, since otherwise, they might to have to quit their job and lose their paycheck.
Pardon me for posting this. I hope the seniors wouldn't take this as an affront. My sister and her husband regularly takes the bus at least once a week. They would often see this arrogant lady who is about 70 years old, well-dressed and looking rich. Upon boarding the bus, which is normally full during the rush hours, the lady would choose someone seated. And then she would ask the person to stand up and give her the seat. It doesn't matter if the person is a male or female as long as he is young. Her attitude gives the impression that being a senior has the right to have a seat all the time. Talk of arrogance. I wonder why some people have the temerity to act like they own the world. And being old is not a reason to be demanding.
No, I just find it interesting that some people will always mention if an offending vehicle is an SUV but they don't mention the type of car otherwise. The media does that all the time. When they don't mention the type of vehicle, I always assume that it was a Prius. SUVs, full-body pickup trucks and other unfortunately gas-guzzling vehicles handle a lot better in the snow, and probably save lives, although I drive a little Chevrolet Tracker and I live in a place where, if I cut someone off in traffic, I'll probably run into them in the grocery store later.
This week, we decided to give away the smaller swimming pool out in the back yard , instead of using it to raise fish, as we had talked about doing with it once we bought the new, larger swimming pool. When we thought about it, we decided that raising fish would not be productive, and we would not want to eat that much fish, and so I put an ad on Craigslist for the pool. I said that it was an older pool, had been sitting over the winter and had still some leaves and rainwater in the bottom, and the people could have it free if they just came and disassembled it and hauled it off. We probably had about 10 people who wanted the pool within the first half hour, and one lady said she was coming to look at it. At this point, I took the ad off of CL, because I was sure that one of those people would take the pool if the first lady didn't take it. I let the second person know that we had someone on the way, and I would email him if she didn't take the pool for some reason. To my amazement, he wrote back, seriously MAD at me, called me names, and said it had to be a scam because he knew I couldn't have given it away that fast, and he was reporting my post to Craigslist ! ! Well, blow me over with a feather........ I was NOT expecting that kind of a response, and especially when i had told him that he would have the second choice if the first person didn't take the swimming pool. Obviously, he was OFF the list, period; but the first people happily took the pool apart, loaded it up in the back of their vehicle, and took it home. They said they had 3-4 kids, so I am sure that by now, they are happily enjoying that swimming pool. All is well that ends well; but I still have no idea what got into the guy that went on the rant because he wasn't first.
Shocking behaviour @Yvonne Smith I agree, but I am employed working with the general public and I see and hear this type of aggressive behaviour all the time..and really it's very upsetting OTOH I remember once many years ago being on a chat forum, and talking with my friends..I mentioned a family members' name several times during the conversation.. The shortened version of his name (of which he's always known)..is Nige... ( from the full version Nigel...) I was saying Nige this..or that...and a lurker to the thread of whom I had never even had any type of previous interaction came roaring into the thread, and with the most appalling language called me every racist name under the sun..extremely aggressive, screaming abuse... I was shocked..I didn't know what she was talking about...until suddenly the penny dropped, and I realised she'd presumed I was called my family member the N word... It was a disgraceful attack on me....when I eventually realised where she'd got it all wrong, I explained her mistake to her ...and instead of apologising, she left the forum completely with a few choice expletives....no apology, nothing... *sigh* some people, are just so full of their own self importance, and aggressive tendencies........but I've never forgotten it..