Today as I was driving to work, another car pulled out of a CVS right in front of me, even though there was nobody behind me. Waiting that extra 2.7 seconds to make his turn was going to send this guy over the edge, apparently. No more than a minute later, I watched yet another car do the same thing to the guy who did it to me. And then, you guessed it, yet still another car, pulling the same tired rabbit out of the same tired magic hat, cut off that car. While it was becoming a slightly amusing, if not moderately irritating chain of karmic justice (which almost never happens, in my experience), all I could really ponder is this one question: When did everyone become so freaking entitled? Also, as a side note, the stereotype about people in the Midwest could not be more inaccurate. I honestly think that some of the biggest assholes in the entire world are centralized right here in the good ol' "Heart of America".
It's not like I don't witness approximately 27 acts of vehicular retardation and/or asshole-osis every day during my trips to work and home. But today it just really got under my skin that nobody really truly gives a crap about anyone else anymore. Nobody cares about being courteous or patient, and everyone just thinks they don't have to act in any way that won't fulfill their immediate selfish needs. Rules don't apply to me. I want what I want, and if you're an obstacle to me getting what I want exactly when I want it, you're just going to have to be bowled over. And I will never consider how that makes you feel. Ever. And yet they're the same people who will be completely flabbergasted when someone does the same thing to them. It's so unjust! Nobody has the right to treat me this way! What do you mean I just did the same thing to you?! Does not compute! It's called the Golden Rule. Heard of it? You can't expect to be treated with respect and acceptance if you're not willing to behave this way to others. Sometimes you actually have to put yourself aside to give someone else the treatment they deserve. I know. How awful. Me, me, me. Cry. You have no right to not to treat me like royalty just because I don't find you important enough to be considerate of! Mehhhhhhh.
I really have nowhere to go with this. I'm just feeling like people are becoming more and more despicable these days. And they don't even care. I'm also cranky 89% of the time now, because I'm 9 months pregnant and there's a little person stealing my entire body from me and making my pelvic region feel like it's been pinned under a Mack Truck for 12 days. Yet somehow I can still "muster up the energy" to be considerate of other people. Funny that.
Oh, and Happy Valentine's Day.
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