Manners and Rudeness....

I really dislike harping on bad things and try to ignore negativity. Not always an easy thing to do, but I feel the urge to post something not so nice about people and their tendency to be so self absorbed and rude to others.

This past two weeks we have been very busy at the county fair. My children, nieces and nephews like to get involved and participate in various thing around the grounds.

My nephew Nathaniel has a disability which has him in a wheelchair during these long hot days. The fair grounds has handicap accessibility, but to be honest, not always the easiest to use. So we have a favorite bathroom. Getting to the bathroom is a maze, but the stall is very nice. So why do we have to wait for the only stall that we can use when there is many (about 6) open? Because a skinny teen wanted to use that one. I can understand that some tines it is needed to use the handicap stall, but it was not necessary. I know this happened to me and my sister almost every time. So frustrated.

Nathaniel likes to watch. He will just sit in his chair and watch the show, auction, pigs, or really almost anything that caught his attention. We know that walkways were put so people can walk safely from point a to point b. So we park Nathaniel out of the path in a safe place. So it really upsets me, well really pisses me off, that the general public feels the right to stop in front of the handicap and stand their to watch. There are bleachers that you are able to walk up and sit down, so why can't they? Because it is easier to be so self absorbed that they do not pay attention to where the are, so they do not know that they are blocking a person from enjoying the activity. Yesterday it got so bad that we had to wheel him into a pen to keep the public from blocking him so he could watch his sister and cousin show the pigs. All it would need is for people to know where they are and who or what is around them for this to be prevented. But it seem that is too much to ask.

Last night was the last day of the fair, and Dominick (another nephew) qualified to a championship round of mutton bustin (like bull riding but on sheep) This is a really cool group of people, and we had been their for many of the show and got kinda known. (Audrey and Caitlyn two other nieces conned the lamb so they were very memorable). So Josie thought she would ask if she could sing the national anthem live. Every show they would play a recording and she thought it would be cool if she could do it. No harm in asking, right? Well she did ask and was given a go ahead. This would be her first time singing the national anthem solo for a crowd. We were so exited. But some of my family became to tired, and had to go home, couldn't blame them for I wanted to go home, but even thou my video camera broke earlier in the day I still had my digital camera which takes video so I could still record it for those who couldn't see them. Or I thought I could. Josie was singing, I was filling up with pride, for her and our country when the "gentleman" next to me proceeded to take out his camera lean in front of me to get a better view. It was so hard to hold my tong! I didn't want it recorded what I wanted to say, so I just tried to shove him out of the way. No luck, song ends and I proceed to tell him thank you for giving me the perfect view of him and his camera, he was all... no problem it hasn't started yet, he would move some. That was his answer, I let him know that it did start and I was recording my daughters first time singing the national anthem solo in public. He told me it didn't matter I didn't miss the real show. UGGGGG!!! I wanted to scream. I knew I was wrong for shoving, well to be honest basically hitting him(he didn't even move) but he had no clue how his self-centeredness affects others.

I know that we all get caught up in the moment, and sometimes forget ourselves, but for it to have happened so constantly It makes me believe that it was not just a momentarily slip, but a constant place of rudeness. I feel bad for thinking it but their were far more rudeness going on than politeness. This disturbs me! In the past few weeks both of my children have been verbally assaulted by adults. Not adults seeing them doing wrong and trying to correct it, but yelled at and called names for things that were not their doing and out of their control. That an innocent child goes try to hug a relative that had not been seen in the last year only to be kicked away like a ball is wrong. I know that parents teach their children, but it is the persons choice to on what to use as he or she grows up. I do not know if any of these people were taught manners, but I do know that by this stage in their life the did have the choice to learn some and they chose to learn rudeness. This really hurts and upsets me!
I know that their is alot of polite well mannered people out there, but after the last two weeks I have just had my fill of rudeness!