Apparently I have a problem minding my own business, people do not seem to appreciate my little gems of wisdom…

All these happened within the last week:

Case 1
I’m walking down the street, there’s a lady driving a SUV, she comes to a stop, she’s on the phone. I cross in front of her and without really paying attention she steps on the gas, sees me last minute and stops. I gave her the look of death and make a motion with my left hand as if I was hanging up a phone… She rolls her window down and right away I say to her: “hang up the phone when you’re driving, it’s illegal” to which she intelligently replies: “Why don’t you mind your own business”. I then tell her that she just made it my business by almost running me over. As I walk away, she chants one more time: “Mind your own business”…

Case 2
I go to the men’s washroom on the first level of the court house, someone is smoking in the stall. I pee, wash my hands and then go: “There’s no smoking in here” to which I get: “Why don’t you mind your own business”. I reply: “Done deal, but it’s a court house, the next person to walk in here might be a cop”

Case 3
Shopping at Eaton Centre, I go into Old Navy and browse through the clothes and the enormous crowd. I get blocked between two alleys, a pod of shoppers behind me and a mother with the biggest baby carriage I’ve ever seen in front of me… I ask the mother/baby/cadillac of carriages to please excuse me so I can continue to move forward. She rolls her eyes and sighs and moves the carriage just enough for someone half my size to go through. I push my way and say: “Oh thanks, it’s not like you’re the only person here today”. To which I get the infamous: “Why don’t you mind your business”. Since I have such a hard time with that apparently this week, I continue: “You’ve made it to hard for me to ignore you, so I guess, that is my business”.

I still think that it would be much easier to mind my business if people stopped including me into their lives. It always feel like an invitation of sorts.

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