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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackSilver" data-source="post: 2547656" data-attributes="member: 22250">A rude couple of daysThe level of rudeness in society sometimes is just so overwhelming I can’t think straight.  A few things happened that I want to share, cause there is no one home but me and I want to rant a bit.Day before yesterday- a fellow on a bicycle waiting on the curb for the walk light to change goes when it turns red for him to go across and us (in cars) to go.  He walks his bike across the street slow enough that no one can make it through the light.  It was surely a gesture for attention in my eyes, but it was very rude.Two things happened today- one while I was at the store the other one the way home, first the store incident.  I have a cart full of stuff, and I am waiting on the elderly woman just ahead of me to write her check.  Behind me is a guy with a six-pack of sodas.  “You want to go ahead of me?”  To which he replies- “rather be behind you,” with his leer I have an idea what he means, but I let him go ahead in any case.  He strikes up a conversation, that I do not respond to, he takes the hint and shuts up, but eventually says- “now if this old, (something), would get out of the (something) way I could get out of here.”No thank you, first off, then makes the comment, and lastly the one that really pushed my buttons.  The cashier caught all of it, and said not a thing to him that she didn’t have to say.  His transaction done he took flight out of the store.  In the parking lot, I helped the elderly woman with a couple of her heavier bags, and she thanked me.  “Children these days,” she said, to which I replied “its not the generation, it’s the individual.  Don’t blame us all for his actions.”  She blessed me and thanked me again.On my way home was my last incident.  One of the roads I have to travel is a four lane.  At the intersection there is an additional right hand turn lane and a left hand turn lane.  I have to turn right so I am in the right hand turn lane, but there are ten cars ahead of me, making the turn slowly.  A car with two guys in it pulls up to the light in the right most none turn lane.The driver decides that he should pull in front of me (the last car in the turn lane) so that he too can make a right hand turn.  I hit my breaks to avoid taking off his right rear bumper, throw half my groceries from the passenger’s seat onto the floor where the other half are located (half the eggs are destroyed, bread and noodles smashed, etc.).  To add insult to injury the passenger flips me off and yells what I think is- “wait your (something) turn, (something).”I take a breath and make the turn.  Over the years I have tried to avoid bad karma, but we can’t help acquiring a bit, so perhaps this is just that bad karma coming back around, or maybe its just a day that I am being tested.  So I am taking a breath, posting this, shutting down my computer and going to meditate for an hour to calm myself.  Thank you for reading this.</blockquote>

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