Other People

Other People
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In which I recount a thing which happened in Paris, and I completely forget to do my Squidward impersonation. Dangit!

Comments

[Margaret]

I know about you mean about being appalled about other people in public--and Americans' etiquette(even in the US) is sadly lacking. I would have gone ballistic if someone had helped herself to MY coffee.

[Jennifer]

Haha, that's funny. "Other people" never seem to amaze me!

[misschris]

lmao about the "faux Valley Girl Upspeak" I wondered what you call that. It's so annoying!

[David Galloway]

Dante Hicks: You hate people!
Randal Graves: I know. I hate people, but I love gatherings. Isn't that ironic.

[Mist 1]

Confession: Sometimes, I sound like a Valley Girl.

[kathie]

Please, everyone has a little valley girl buried inside...

[kathie]

ooohh, upon thinking about my post, it sounds pretty strange...

[Elisabeth]

Oh, I absolutely loved that story, and the fact that you have the courage to tell it in a video clip. It is definitely very cool.

About fearing for the children of America - my daughter told me the other day that she had been running a table at the Honors Program Open House at Pitt (she is not an Honors student, but is co-editor of the Three Rivers Review, the Pitt undergraduate literary magazine, which is funded by the Honors Program), and she was appalled by the fact that parents were constantly "talking for their kids." I do agree that parents, these days, do more and more for their quasi adult children, and this is getting worse and worse.

[meredith]

That.."Sorrrrry"...she said strikes me as so American, and would make me want to do something very unpolite just so I could "Sorrrrry" her right back. Arggh...

[zeno]

Good job!!!

:)

[AlisonM]

I laughed, but I also felt that inward cringe - stooopid murricans. It's probably worse when you're in another country, because they stand out more, and you don't want to be identified with them. Here, you just kind of expect it.

[Melanie]

you have a squidward impression? I am going to have to check back this evening to watch that one.

[Anne]

The amount of rude and unthinking people one encounters in every day life never fails to amaze me. It often seems courtesy, manners and common sense are passe.

[Amber]

Man, you are such a bitch!! heeeeeeeeeeee Have I told you I love you lately?!!

There's word for the look on the boy's face (an possibly even the boy himself) here in Scotland... it is glaekit!! Maybe they boy had, well you know, special needs?

[Karan]

When the woman wouldn't give you the cup with the coffee back, I would have said, well, thank you for pouring for me and made a grab for it. She knew what she was doing. As to the boy....maybe he was "slow"...you did say he was a mouth breater after all. But...that said....you are right...American kids are terribly overindulged in all ways. They were easily the worst behaved children I saw in the entire month I was in Italy...and that's true everywhere I saw them.