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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On case #2, I would have just gone and got a police officer… you are nicer than me.
Yeah I would have ratted out the smoker too, that is just gross.
I love your attitude
Dyl: I wonder if I can do like Liz Lemon on 30 Rock and turn this into a TV show
mt & B: Why don’t you two mind your own business? hehe… but seriously, if a man resorts to smoking in the bathroom instead of walking the 25 steps he’d need to get outside, I figure he’s already sad and pathetic enough… I would’ve like to stick around and see who went in next after me though.. ahah
D: thanks, wait till I bring my wisdom to England one of these days… I might not come back alive… hehe
I dont like people very much – stuff like this gets to me too.
Another alternative on #2 would have been to reach under the stall, grab his pants and run…. or if you had some thing to put water in, toss a glass full over the top of the stall…
Stephen: It’s not people I don’t like, it’s really when they are being selfish, and in big cities, they are just abounding.. it’s everyone for himself/herself… Hey, it gives me blog content, right? eheh
I like your blog btw
mt: I like the running away with the pants thing… I’m keeping this idea on the back burner
I am slowly falling in love with you.