Saying Excuse me isn't always enough.
By jsitko
@jsitko (1169)
United States
March 10, 2008 7:33pm CST
Have you ever been in a store looking at something and someone says "Excuse me" to get by BUT doesn't give you that one millimeter of a second to step aside to let them by? As they are saying Excuse me they are bumping into you or brushing by. I can't stand that. The manners are nice but for crying out loud please give me that moment and I will gladly move to let you by. This happens to me many times and I just want to scream when they do that. Today, I finally said something to the person that did that to me. I said, "Saying excuse me is polite but only if you give the person time to move."
Do you think that was rude of me to say? I was brought up to be polite and have manners and to wait for the person to move to get by, not to bump into them.
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@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
11 Mar 08
I understand where you are coming from but that does not agervate me as much as people that do not say excuse me at all. The people that just barrel right into you, or don't hold the door when you are 2 feet behind them, the people that you let in while driving and they can't even give you a curtsey wave! When some one does not say excuse me or doesn't hold the door I say EXCUSE ME or THANK YOU FOR HOLDING THE DOOR.
I went to the mall with my daughter once and had an outburst because of some one being so rude. I was walking in the door trying the finangale the stroller and hold the door at the same time. These people not real young but not old either started to walk out the door I was going into instead they went to the other door and walked out laughing. I still don't know if they were laughing at me or not but I lost it. I stopped trying to get the stroller in the door turned around and said "excuse me you see that I am trying to get in the door did you have to be so rude as to go to another door? You couldn't have just opened this one and let me go in? I am sure that where ever you are going it is SO improtaint that you couldn't take 30 seconds out of your special life to help some one out! I hope some one holds the door for you some day and you can think back to this!"
Anyway to your question was it rude of you to say that ... NO! People need more commen curtsey in this horriable world we live in.
@jsitko (1169)
• United States
11 Mar 08
I agree with you. It all gets on my nerves. I am not sure what is happening to this country but there seems to be less kind people around. Is it that they are too busy to see the other people around them or just that they are rude and things are just going to get worse?
It probably wouldn't have even taken 30 seconds to hold that door open for you and that would have been a kind gesture.
How about the person You hold the door for and they walk right on in as if you were meant to do that for all who enter. They never bat an eyelash at you and never say thank you.UUGGHHHH!
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@asgtswife04 (2475)
• United States
11 Mar 08
No, it wasn't rude of you at all. Most people that i've encountered don't even say excuse me and just push right past me or they do it to my children which really angers me, so i'll say excuse me for them or tell them that it was really rude. if they knock my child down in the process of getting by then i really speak my mind. it's absolutely ridiculous how some people disrespect or feel they are entitled to just push themselves through wherever they are at. drives me crazy. LOl! God bless
@jsitko (1169)
• United States
11 Mar 08
I have found myself saying for those who don't. Sometimes I think it is just for my benefit though. It doesn't seem to have any effect on the people that just push by you. I agree with you, if I had kids and they did that, I would speak my mind also. I have had kids be more polite to me than most adult, so there may be hope out there after all.
