[Phil S.]

To people who seem to behave as if their actions have no impact on others (examples: playing your high-powered car sound system loudly, regardless of where you are, or bringing your cellular phone to an acoustic music concert and not muting the ring): What is your attitude toward others?

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[Kat26795]

Those folks who breeze into the parking lot and take a handicapped spot, or squeeze their Suburban into a tiny parking spot, or take their ringing phone into concerts, or cut in line at the deli, etc., have consciously or unconsciously decided they are more important, stressed, hurried, whatever, than everyone else. Their parents proabably gave them everything they ever asked for, conceded to their every whim and let them walk all over them. Thanks, folks, for raising such a loathsome bunch of self-centered snots. Teenagers blast music and make noise because they desire the attention. Adults do it because they’re jerks.

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[Meghan]

I think people lose their heads sometimes because they have never had real guidance in their lives. I have often wondered about that, also – the music in public places. I just think they forget about respect for anyone but themselves.

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[John B.]

If you watch, parents spend years trying to teach their very young children not to respond to every person in their vicinity (don’t follow the mail man, don’t spontaneously hug the waiter, don’t run up and talk to strangers). By about age 5, everyone outside the family or the age group is invisible to most children. (This is why they will try to walk through you). The ability to project another person’s humanity fully — i.e. to realize that those people ‘out there’ are having inner lives as complex as your own — doesn’t develop completely until late adolescence. Which, in some people, doesn’t occur before their unlamented burials … So sometimes it’s an assertion of ‘I’m too important to pay attention to you’ or ‘I will annoy you to show I can.’ But just as often, it’s because none of the rest of us is quite real to that person. We’re more like a badly behaved computer game. (This means, of course, that they are _extremely_ alone … which may or may not be punishment enough for the nuisance they make of themselves).

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[Kimber]

Kat hit the nail on the head but only skimmed the surface on one of my pet peeves which is the idiots who take up two parking spaces. Some do this intentionally, to minimize the door dings,(as if it doesn’t make others want to key their car instead) and others do it because they can’t park straight to begin with and are to selfish to take the extra ten seconds to put it between the lines. These people know who they are and should park out on the fringe areas of the parking lots and leave the closer spaces to those of us who know how rude it is to hog two spaces.

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