Is it just me...

ORIGINAL: chewbecca

or is it like this for most people:
I'm finding the older I get, the less tolerance I have for things that I used to tolerate well.
Like teenagers and arrogant people.

MAN! I swear I feel like I could I just smack some people around, you know?

You're not alone.

or is it like this for most people:
I'm finding the older I get, the less tolerance I have for things that I used to tolerate well.
Like teenagers and arrogant people.

MAN! I swear I feel like I could I just smack some people around, you know

 
I used to feel like you do. Age has taught me that there are more of them and only one of me. So, I quit worrying about it as much. In your 30's, you have age and some wisdom and feel like you can still change the world. By your 40's, you know better. All you can do is change yourself.
 

ORIGINAL: Benedict

I'm still relatively young (26) and should be somewhat tolerant. []

I'm not.  I have ZERO patience for stupid people.  I realise that everyone's different and there are different levels of intelligence, but I get the impression that some people are just dumb on purpose.  Like those people at the airport who spend 10 minutes looking for their passport AFTER they get to the check in desk because they didn't realise they needed to show it.  Or people who sue McDonalds because they spill hot coffee on themselves.  I'm not even sure it's stupidity exactly...more like a common sense deficiency, but still it's sooooo annoying.  PC-ness be damned lol.  Actually I blogged about this very subject a few days ago: 
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Also, anyone responsible for any kind of publicly displayed notice or signage who can't spell or use punctuation properly.

I'm 65 in a 26 year old body.

Kate

 
OMG Kate that was a great blog!!!!  I'm still laughing as I reply.  Thanks for sharing it!

Hahaha thanks Ed!  Glad you liked it.  []
 
Kate

Kate, you blog was terrific.  I have the 2005 Stella awards I'd like to post for all to see, but am unsure if I can post with the people's names listed or delete the names first?  Someone please let me know, I think you'll all get a laugh out of it.

ORIGINAL: ladiebug

Kate, you blog was terrific. I have the 2005 Stella awards I'd like to post for all to see, but am unsure if I can post with the people's names listed or delete the names first? Someone please let me know, I think you'll all get a laugh out of it.

Be sure to post the real Stella Awards, not the fake ones that circulate around the internet.

http://www.stellaawards.com/

And check out the ones you want to post at Snopes.com. Chances are you have the fake ones.

Of course I tolerate my kids okay...but other people's,...no. Of course I always will be harder on the parent than the child since they're the actual cause of the ruckus in most cases. Teenagers who whine a lot annoy me to no end...
 
I think my tolerance for the behavior of stupid adults has dropped waaaay down. Parents who leave kids alone while they run into a store....people who let their dogs crap all over the neighborhood off leash....people who drive while on the cell phone and eating at the same time...stuff flike that.

Kids still annoy me the most and I also wish there was a no children section in restaurants.

 
See, but then the genuinely well-behaved kids (and people WITH them) get punished for things that ill-behaved kids do. I babysit my 3 1/2 year old niece 50 hours a week, and take her everywhere with me. She is extremely well-behaved. She doesn't shriek or throw tantrums in stores or restaurants. She doesn't demand things, or run rampant through the place. So while I agree that most kids are horribly obnoxious and annoying, what about the ones who aren't?
 
I guess I just hate people judging anyone on age alone. I got treated like a...teenager, I guess, through my teenage years, but I didn't act like one. And I just don't think that's fair. There was a column in Dear Abby a few days ago, where a 14 year old, I think, wrote in saying she was treated badly by adults just because she's 14, and Abby said something along the lines of it's her own fault, and she probably dresses weirdly or acts badly. I was fuming mad. I could so relate to that girl, and I never dressed weirdly or acted badly. I guess people just refuse to see what they don't want to. My assumption is Abby treats teenagers badly. [&:]
 
Though, to be "ageist" myself, I do hate most teenagers. [] But I don't look at someone, see they're under the age of 20, and automatically hate them. They have to earn that hatred, and most do it within two minutes, no problem.
 
I do hate stupid people though. Can't help it. [8D]

CELL PHONES RINGING EVERYWHERE.  I have no patinece with this.  Sitting in a resturant...phones rining all around you, walking the asile in grocery store...phones ringing all around you.  Sitting in church...phones going off.
 
Wehave  a friend my sons age and he and i like to fish together.  Well, he got a cell phone and would bring it out on the jetty and it seemed like every time he caught a fish---of even had a nibble he had to call someone and tell them.  Drove me nuts and i fianlly told him I was out there to fish, not listen to him talk on phone---he started turning it off.  Recently hubby and i were in resturant and all three people at the next table were talking on cell phones at the same time.  And it seems most people talk louder when on a cell phone.
 
Hubby has one--he is cross country truck driver,often has to call plants to get directions, CD or local terminals, etc and pay phones are getting hard to find.  He has nagged at me about getting one and I may break down and do it.  When I go to youngest son's, i have a 25 mile drive hom, usually around 9-10 at night.  When i got on gambling boat i have a 12 mile drive home mostly country side.  Often fish til dark also.  He is probably right that I do need to have one being out alone after dark, but I will probably forget to carry it with me most of the time, and since i dont' like talking on the phone at all will not use it for "just talking,.'

So while I agree that most kids are horribly obnoxious and annoying, what about the ones who aren't?

ALL kids are rotten sometimes, i know this from experience. my 3 year old is extremely well behaved and mannered, but we have left stores due to her whining before. you can only expect so much from a young child, too many people just don't understand that.

So while I agree that most kids are horribly obnoxious and annoying, what about the ones who aren't?

when the obnoxious ones are in the minority, i will be ok with sitting beside them in a restaurant. otherwise i assume they are all obnoxious and will ask to be seated as far away from them as possible.

CELL PHONES RINGING EVERYWHERE.

i am with you on this sandra. i have a cell phone, but it is ALWAYS on vibrate. i cant stand those obnoxious rings or worse a song. when i take my wife out to eat i turn it off. nothing more offensive to the others at the table than to take a call during dinner.

it is amazing what people will talk about on their cell phones in public places. many times giving much more personal information than i would want my doctor to know, but they put it out there where perfect strangers can hear it.

i find those bluetooth headsets particularly amusing. the same people wouldnt be caught dead wearing a star trek uniform like a trekkie, but that is what i think of everytime i see someone wearing one. to me it looks like you have some cyborg implant in your head or something.

maybe the problem is that verizon/cingular/t-mobile/etal. should be required to give mandatory cell phone etiquette classes before letting you sign a contract or giving you a phone.

Yes...I fondly recall the days when things were simpler...when someone wandering around talking fervently to themselves and making hand gestures was just plain CRAZY...lmao. Now you have to check to see if they are "jacked in" before you cross the street to avoid them haha!

I'm guilty too.  I asked my DH the other day when did I get to be so crotchety! 
Don't like concerts anymore cause I don't like my ears ringing for 2 days after,
don't like aggressive drivers and want to "TOWANDA" them but refrain, can't stand neighbors that ask for advice and then ignore it to ruin their lives anyway! 
We agreed next Christmas we are decorating our house as "Grinch-ville"! 
 
I have no tolerance of stupid people anymore.  Never had much to begin with though I have to admit. 

Thanks, Jean.  My friend sent me these, and I will bow my nead and take an award myself for my earlier question.. Sorry, Kate [], the nice lunch DH made me made the common sense kick in, and I realized I should've posted it w/o the names. [&:][]
 
OK, here goes: 
 
2005 Stella Awards!
Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards." The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States. 
 
 
Here are this year's winners: 5th Place[color=#ff0099][color=#ff00cc] (tie): [/color] [/color] A woman in Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after braking her ankle tripping over a toddlerwho was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandablysurprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was her son. 5th Place[color=#ff00cc] (tie): [/color] A 19-year-old man in Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord.  He apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps. This one is my personal favorite!5th Place (tie): A man in Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and he  found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed, to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place! He should thank doG these people had a dog!4th Place[color=#ff00cc]: [/color] A man in Little Rock Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by the man who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun. 3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay a woman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500  after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone).  The beverage was on the floor because she had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.2ndPlace: A woman in Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to thefloor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while she was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses. 1st Place: This year's runaway winner was awarded to a woman in Oklahoma City,Oklahoma. She purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her firsttrip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned.  She sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete mor--s around.