What the hell is it with these people? I was standing in line at a Tim Horton's restaurant yesterday. There was one line but two registers. Abruptly, this wrinkled and very bitter old woman waiting for the register on the right turns to me and growls, "Don't you DARE go ahead of me in line!" While I looked at her in shock, two people entered and cut in front of me to go to the register on the left while I was distracted.

I didn't make a big deal about it, but what is wrong with these people? Who would be so petty as to cut ahead of another person in line? I am sick of dealing with roaches. I should have an anal evacuation in the honor of all roaches.

i dont let that kind of crap bother me. i mean... i usually have some kind of snide remark... and laugh but then thats just because i like to see people and how they function in certain situations.

what i'd wonder is what has happened in that woman's life to make her so angry.

sad really.

It still stuns me when adults act like 3rd grade bullies.

She was just having g a cranky old lady day

Uh, not to say that I think I'm King Kong or anything, but I have never had anyone even try to cut in line in front of me in a store. It might be the 20 tatts on my arms.. It might be the fact that I'm 6'4", and weigh 280. It might be the military style hair style I usually sport, or all of them combined. I dunno.

In a car is a whole different story..

I usually don't let stuff like that bother me, either. If they are in so much of a rush that they left common courtesy at home, arguing with them is going to be pointless. So, I don't bother stressing myself out over it.

That's not even the worse I've been treated by an elderly woman. One morning, I was waiting at a bus stop with an elderly woman who insisted upon telling me of her grandson's apparently "whore" girlfriend in a thick Ukrainian accent. I tried to be polite while I desperately scanned the streets for an oncoming bus. Finding none, I turned back to the old woman, smiling and nodding my head while wondering how to get out of the situation.

Then without warning, she became hostile. "Look at you," she sneered in a voice I could barely understand. "You look like a toothpick. What woman would even want you??" Pushing aside my first impulse (which was to make a crude remark about the huge goiter on the woman's face that looked like a second head), I walked away smiling, although my eyes probably told a more hostile story. I actually decided to walk to get where I was going rather than be in this individual's company for thirty more seconds.

It turned out rather well for me. Turns out it was a holiday (I'd forgotten) and the buses weren't running. The old woman might be standing there still.

Another time, I was at the head of a long line at the bank, and was called up. But the voice echoed weirdly, and I initially thought the teller was to the left (she was to the right). While I was distracted, this 80-year old woman sheepishly cuts around me to the teller. I had to curtail the impulse to take target practice at her head with my shoe. I've a good feeling that I would have hit the bullseye too!

I'd be cranky too if I were their age and receiving the "respect" that most people under the age of 50 treat the elderly these days.

I'm going to be one of those evil old ladies that everyone avoids like the plague, lol.

My neighborhoods gone bad. I was at line in the little Arab store (ain't they all?) and waiting for an old couple to gather their stuff from the counter...politely. This young punk jumps in front of me and I told him "Hey parter. the line starts there" and pointed behind me. He starts hollering that I'm a racist and actually gets on his cell phone (while he's in line BEHIND me) and is telling whomevers on the other end "Im in the store with some KKK guy....blah blah blah". You just have to laugh at f**kin idiots. I did and I do.

YOung people especially have no respect for anything or anyone unless you just shut em down. Hopefully its one and not 10, cause you have a fight on your hands THEN. Or the few elitist rich who are so used to being served that they actually forget that the world ain't on their payroll.

Anyone remember when people were polite to each other? I do...vaguely.

I insist on being polite at all times - I enjoy freaking people out ;)

I'm a person who opens doors for elderly women. Old people need to start putting that acquired wisdom they're supposed to have collected through the centuries to good use and stop generalizing.

no one to this date has cut me off in line nor a car.

some one tryed to run me over a few hours ago. i mashed a window. they was doin it on purpose. my x's new boy.