Okay, this is going to be my public service announcement of the week. This weekend I have witnessed a whole mess of random sarcasm. Not humorous sarcasm but more of the hateful rude variety and quite honestly I'm over it.
I'm all about a good sarcastic zinger that is not rude or hurtful but the blatant stuff....stop it. Now. It doesn't put anything out there that is productive.
I think the most humorous was a woman who without trying was dressed like a mime. Striped shirt, black pants...a beret! We were all walking in a highly trafficated area and we came to a crosswalk. The sign was the big red hand that means stop or you will more than likely be smooshed by a motor vehicle. Apparently not in mime world, because on she trod. When she just about got hit she didn't say a word she just banged on the car and gestured to the ground and ahead of her and then to the sidewalk on the other side of the road and rolled her eyes as if the motorist was stupid. Mime girl was totally in the wrong, and yet she is the one that is mad? No honey, take your little mime tooshie and learn the ways of the land red big hand does not mean come on over the water is fine it means STOP!!!
We were walking two and two on the sidewalk. I want to repeat that....on the sidewalk. A van that apparently missed its turn came up on the sidewalk and had to wait for my husband to pass. As he was on a sidewalk and didn't realize that the van driver was in need of the SIDEWALK, he didn't speed up his pace he just kept walking. This unnerved the driver of the van and his overly vocal passenger. They didn't see me because we are always several paces behind, but I wanted to walk up to the van and tell them that the sidewalk was more of a foot traffic thing rather than a van thing, but see....I held my sarcasm. Quite honestly mine was more justified and yet I still held it.
Why oh why is our first knee jerk response when someone offends us to make them feel bad too? What good does that do? I honestly think it would make them feel worse if you would return kindness to their hatefullness. I have a friend that was in Walmart. He was wearing a navy shirt and khaki pants. It was his lunch break so he went to one of those self checkout thingys to pay. When he was finished and started to walk off the man behind him said "Hey Jerk!, are you going to ring me up before you go on your lunch break." Now, my friend does not work for Wal mart even if he was wearing the appropriate colors, kind of like if you wear a red shirt and khaki pants to Target. My friend took the high road and just walked off after the associate at the self check explained this is self check sir he doesn't work here. Now, he could have said 1 of 100 things. My friend is very witty and extremely sarcastic. He could have put that guy in his place in several different ways, but he didn't he chose to not spread any more hate.
If you meet a hateful person today. Someone that should really be put in their place do it in a totally radical way, before they leave your space have them in a better mood. Have them smiling and happy. If you are hateful to them they are just going to spend their day getting madder and madder. If you make them laugh you could possibly turn their whole day around and it will affect others I promise. Watch your own reaction to things when you get mad are you then nice to the next person you meet or do you snap at them? Stop the ball from rolling I say...REMEMBER THE MIME!!!!
Have a great Monday people!
No comments:
Post a Comment