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Moviegoer stabbed for complaining about rude cellphone usage:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-meat-thermometer10-2010mar10,0,5161485,print.story
Really, people?
I'm glad that my husband and I left the theater early the other night when we had someone start cursing at us after we asked him to stop using his cellphone in the theater. Lancaster isn't all that far from us either, not that it matters. (Though it is encouraging that some people came to the victim's aid.) Can you imagine though...? YOU are being RUDE,... you are ruining everyone else's movie experience by talking loud on your cellphone (which is against the rules, but regardless)... and someone *GASP* asks you to stop or keep it down. And instead of feeling ashamed or apologizing... or even being unrighteously mad but keeping it to yourself... instead of all that, you get your two big guy friends to stab the person in the parking lot with a meat thermometer.
I was talking to a friend who works at the gym this morning and she said that sometimes when she asks guys not to drop (and damage) the $300 110 lb weights on the floor, that they get belligerent with her and that only recently did the management back her up to the point that she felt safe even asking them not to do it.
And you know... I expect people to do more than just not stab or punch each other... I expect them to be polite and kind to each other. Seems like a lot to ask for in our current society.
And it gets worse and worse as the polite people are bullied in to keeping quiet and taking it.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-meat-thermometer10-2010mar10,0,5161485,print.story
Really, people?
I'm glad that my husband and I left the theater early the other night when we had someone start cursing at us after we asked him to stop using his cellphone in the theater. Lancaster isn't all that far from us either, not that it matters. (Though it is encouraging that some people came to the victim's aid.) Can you imagine though...? YOU are being RUDE,... you are ruining everyone else's movie experience by talking loud on your cellphone (which is against the rules, but regardless)... and someone *GASP* asks you to stop or keep it down. And instead of feeling ashamed or apologizing... or even being unrighteously mad but keeping it to yourself... instead of all that, you get your two big guy friends to stab the person in the parking lot with a meat thermometer.
I was talking to a friend who works at the gym this morning and she said that sometimes when she asks guys not to drop (and damage) the $300 110 lb weights on the floor, that they get belligerent with her and that only recently did the management back her up to the point that she felt safe even asking them not to do it.
And you know... I expect people to do more than just not stab or punch each other... I expect them to be polite and kind to each other. Seems like a lot to ask for in our current society.
And it gets worse and worse as the polite people are bullied in to keeping quiet and taking it.
