[BobnBev]

So, he had all that booze, I wonder if he was driving a car or golf cart? Another accident waiting to happen.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by rubicon

Retiring:

the saddest part of which you speak is that this rudeness in cutting in line is more common than people realize. Conversely there are an equal number of people in the area who have offered to allow you to step ahead recognizing that you are holding only one item in your hands.

Yes indeed its occurred more than once to me and in one situation the offending party caught me in a bad mood and I dressed down the guy in a loud voice. Apparently it took because every time he sees me at Publix's he walks the other way

You are right.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

To be perfectly honest though, anyone even 50 years or older have probably been rude like that all of their lives and the chances of changing their attitude/behavior...is slim to none.

You are right.

[eremite06]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

I remember than a woman told me when she had maybe 20 items that she had not seen the Winn-Dixie 10 items or fewer sign. Same Winn-Dixie too. I like going there after seeing movies at the Old Mill Playhouse. Donate blood too once in a while when the One Blood Big Red Bus is there and they are handing out the Villages' area movie tickets.

Just curious, how many T-shirts, blankets and umbrellas do you have now from OneBlood?

[Madelaine Amee]

Similar line cutting situation happened to the woman in front of me at Fresh Market, she was a bit late in answering the number call and the woman behind her, and in front of me, jumped in very loudly and forcefully. The woman who had been jumped started in a very loud voice to comment to me ........... this happened to be a day when I was feeling very laid back (which does not happen too often) and we started talking. We ended up having a great conversation, we talked children, grandchildren, daughter in laws, etc. etc., and she walked away happy and so did I. Sometimes there is a silver lining.

After all, if you listen to commonsense, you will know that we are never, ever, going to teach manners to someone who has been in this world for 50/60/70+ years ........ manners are taught in the home and if you didn't get it there you are not going to get it anywhere else!

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by eremite06

Just curious, how many T-shirts, blankets and umbrellas do you have now from OneBlood?

I retire these t-shirts after two years or so. Maybe six blankets, two umbrellas, eight coolers, four long sleeve shirts, etc.

Do not tell the IRS.

And now they are giving $60 gift cards - probably for Amazon.com-- if you donate six times over three month periods for platelets. That's 24 donations a year for platelets which is the limit per year for these.

I have received maybe 50 t-shirts over the years from various blood donation groups. I started in Belmont, CA in 1985 or so trying to impress a blonde woman named Sandy who started dating a lawyer instead. She worked with me at Information Access Company. She indexed PR News Wire I believe for various library products. I indexed newspapers but also did sports and business magazines. Then started abstracting local business journals for Area Business Databank. I have been donating blood on or off for 30 years or more.

I did talk to a nice other woman employee at IAC a bit whom I would run into at the American Law Library Association convention in San Francisco CA in the Summer of 1992. She was in the marketing IAC department and looked just like a woman I went to law school with who is now probably the top immigration lawyer on the West Coast. One of the law librarians I had also graduated from Law School with in 1989 actually confused the two woman going up to the IAC marketer asking her what she was doing here? It was rather amusing except that both women looked quite a lot like a portrait I had done in 1975 which the Mitchell family had wanted as it looked just like their 2-24-1976 slain daughter Michelle. Mrs. Barbara Mitchell had seen the drawing in an Art Show I had at Earl Wooster High School the Spring of 1976. I gave this drawing to the Mitchell family at their home while thanking them for giving me the Michelle Mitchell Memorial Scholarship that Spring of 1976.

I did donate blood while in the Twin Cities but not too often. Only really started doing it seriously after we moved to the Villages in 2005 from Palm Harbor, FL.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by affald

100 years old? Forgive and forget.

I doubt he was 100, probably about 65 with his alcohol and habits problems

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

I doubt he was 100, probably about 65 with his alcohol and habits problems

I have met some rather active almost 100 year olds at Doggie Doo Run Run.

[graciegirl]

I look at it like this.

There is a bank somewhere, and every time we stand silently and patiently while someone does something mildly annoying, we get credit, and when we do something mildly annoying someone will borrow from that bank and extend the loan to us.

I am in unchartered territory. I haven't ever been this old before. I didn't know the hair on my legs would disappear and reappear as a beard and moustache. I didn't know I would make moaning sounds when I would arise from a chair. or that all those smiles would pay me back as wrinkles.

So I try really hard to cut the older some slack. But Cold no more is right. He may well have been selfish all of his life.

Enjoy this day. Who knows how many we have.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I look at it like this.

There is a bank somewhere, and every time we stand silently and patiently while someone does something mildly annoying, we get credit, and when we do something mildly annoying someone will borrow from that bank and extend the loan to us.

I am in unchartered territory. I haven't ever been this old before. I didn't know the hair on my legs would disappear and reappear as a beard and moustache. I didn't know I would make moaning sounds when I would arise from a chair. or that all those smiles would pay me back as wrinkles.

So I try really hard to cut the older some slack. But Cold no more is right. He may well have been selfish all of his life.

Enjoy this day. Who knows how many we have.

Yes. And then we will have to explain to God why we did this; but not this, etc. Kind of worried about that. I suppose many of us are.

[affald]

We should be extra forgiving of the very old and especially the disabled! Maybe this person was both old and had a mental disorder. Be kind to all and reap the rewards in the future.

[Boomer]

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[2BNTV]

This is not a TV thing. When I was in CT, I was standing in line for awhile at a bakery when finally, I was next. A older guy walked right past and ordered an item. I said, "there is a line here".

He replied, I am a senior citizen". I said, so am I.

He mumbled sorry.

It's nice to have compassion for elderly people but some people just feel they reached the age where they can do whatever they want.

Never forget, "it's all about them".

[EPutnam1863]

Being eldery does not give one a license to thumb his nose at society. Anyway it irritates me even more when oneiof any age checks out more than 10 items in a "limit to 10 items" line.

[Trish Crocker]

Got this from a young lady working at a doctors office. She was in line at Publix and a lady got behind her. The lady only had one or two items in her cart so she asked the young woman it she could go ahead. The young woman said that she was happy to allow her to get in front of her until the lady said "after all, I AM a Villager". The young woman told her that she can wait her turn! I don't know what makes people think that because they are old or fortunate enough to live her they are somehow better than everyone else.