WHERE IS THE ETIQUETTE?

I often wonder how people actually get away with most of the stuff they get away with. I find so many people to be so crass and mean. Where did public etiquette go? I mean I am not a student of Emily Post by any stretch of the imagination, however, there seems to be no manners left…in anyone!

People are rude, belligerent, obnoxious (especially on their cell phones), angry, violent, pissed off, self-centered and self-important. The older I have gotten the more I have recognized how little people actually care about one another. I am talking about people out in public (not family and friends- though that could be debatable). You walk down the street and get bumped and people no longer even say “excuse me.” You make a wrong turn or a small mistake on the road and it is total road rage galore. Every expletive comes from wound up windows and a wide-open mouth- sometimes a finger- the middle one to be exact.

There just doesn’t seem to be any common decency anymore. Or maybe I am just blind to it. But I haven’t seen any in a long time. I just know that some of the human indecency has given me more reason to adorn my BITCH GEAR. My shell.

I just wish there was more compassion. More general caring. More people who gave a shit. I wish there was friendliness and softness. I think so many of us have bean beaten up and spit out. It is a shame. I am guilty of being a loud cell phone talker, a cursing driver and even a self-important wench. But I try to put myself in check and realize that it isn’t ‘all about me’ and that there are so many things out there greater than ME. And that MY world isn’t the only world that exists here. I try to balance myself. I try to be a KIND BITCH. But sometimes I am just kind of a BITCH.

I wonder if this has always been the case; people just unkind to one another and publicly inappropriate. And if not… when did we let our guards down and think it was okay to flip people off and call them nasty names? When did it become okay to push and shove and spit in the street?

Anyone know?

ANoNymous Poster

My feeling is if you are going to be a REAL BITCH...the type that people don’t really like- vindictive, ugly, condescending and mean, then you should at least show your face and be brave about it.

Posting anonymously is so meager if you are going to critisize someone...

Long story short and my first BITCH RANT:

I have another blog at http://miscarriageonetwomany.blogspot.com

Yes that is correct. I am one of “those women” who has had a few miscarriages. Anyway- I have been grieving heavily since I lost two babies within 6 months. I blog. I heal. I cry. I sometimes die in small doses. I am doing what I need to do to repair.

I had a post last week that really upset me. What, can’t a BITCH get emotional? Yup, they can. We can. I am. I am very sensitive. Chalk it up to being in touch with my reality and my feelings. Again, I am proud of who I am.

This is the post that some “ANONYMOUS and FACELESS COWARD posted to my site:

"I have read several of your pages, and I am so sad for you ~ it is truly a frightening, sad and completely random experience that effects a woman who has had a miscarriage. I know your pain and am sorry you have had to go through such trauma ~ but you need to get over this. I know that is blunt and seems callous, but you do. Life is a gift, and when the time is right for you and your man to have another opportunity to love and cherish another life, you will be given that chance. In the meantime, you need to heal yourself of this hateful state you have placed yourself in. You sound angry and irrational in your writings ~ and although this is a part of the healing process, until you get past it, you will never be healthy enough to try again. All things happen for a reason. Some reasons are hard to see, but they will teach you if you push past this angered state and search for the answer. "

Now… I am all about sharing ones opinion. GO FOR IT. But do it with a face and some courage. This post is awful and in a BAD BITCH kind of way. There is a difference.
A GOOD BITCH would never write something so UGLY. A BAD BITCH WOULD.

There is a difference. Nonetheless, I have moved on and just wanted to share my first BITCH RANT. I have a few but this one really stuck with me. People can be so awful. It is the ugliness in people that I think I am most surprised by as a grown woman now. I just never expected that people could be so awful to one another… but they are.

Anyway BITCHES… at least all the GOOD, COURAGEOUS, BITCHES… I hope you are having a MEANINGFUL evening.

This bitch is going to bed!