Everyday Humor
When Complete Strangers Make Your Day Interesting
The first story took place in the local library. All of the patrons in the large computer lab could not miss the sign posted on every computer station that cell phone use was not permitted. After a long quiet working time, a lady got on her cell phone and started talking loudly to a former building owner about what the number was of the unit where she used to live because she was completing some type of online application. I looked at the lady next to me and the man on the other side of me. We quiet computer users looked at each other in disbelief, tittering among ourselves, probably thinking the same thing. How could she miss the sign? Her conversation went on for a two full minutes before the librarian came over and kindly explained that she needed to stop her cell phone use. After a few more loud interchanges over the phone, the loud lady finally left. I felt the silent cheers at her departure.
The second incident less than a week later happened at a Wal-Mart parking lot. I was walking alone with my toddler on my hip. A fifty-something man in a flashy red Corvette was zooming through the parking lot as we were crossing the drive to enter the store. I just stared at him, daring him not to stop as I crossed because we were already there. He looked at me, briefly tapped his breaks, just missing us, and sped up as soon as we were clear. I yelled at him an expletive and said how he dared try to run down a woman with a baby. I felt vindicated when the ladies in the car behind him smiled at me and gave me the thumbs up for sticking up for myself. It was clear from their smiles that they could not believe the nerve of some people like him.
When you meet these types of people in your everyday life, you probably wonder how they can be so self-absorbed and so self-important that they lack basic consideration for other people. In the case of the library woman, she was just rude. In the case of the man driving the Corvette, his ignorance and don't-care attitude was downright unsafe. What is our world coming to? The crazy self-absorbed people of this modern age keep your day interesting and provide humor even as they frustrate you. When you wake up in the morning, you can feel grateful to be alive and to be more aware than these crazy people of the world. These are the same people you read about in the paper when they die in a senseless accident or kill someone else, all because they were too busy to wake up and look around them.
And who said everyday life was really ordinary?
Published by AB
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Post a Comment(he is running up the stairs as she is running down; he thinking an intruder is in the bedroom chases her out of the house; she being curious has to go to the side of the house; arriving just in time to see the rest of the ceiling and dust flying in the upstairs bedroom window...I forget the "weapon" he grabbed and her telling of it was a bit more detailed~kind of you would have to know her husband to truly appreciate the comic value.)
Sometimes when we are in the midst of something~like the guy trying to run you over~we get caught up in the anger of the moment; and, like you can find something to laugh about the ordinary. Like when my daughter's bedroom ceiling fell down, unexpectedly for no good reason. It was not funny as it was happening, but the retelling of the tale is hilarious. (hearing the noise she thought he had knocked something over and she went running to see if he was trapped under a large piece of furniture..)