I have a few questions that I would like answers to:
1 – Why do 40 something year old men feel the need to behave like 12 year old boys when they are in a group? I’m pretty tolerant of a great deal of the banter I have to listen to at work between grown men waiting for me to get their orders ready but really, why must the conversation you are having among your group of friends always have to be about the chick you banged last night and how much you hate your wife?
2 – When did pot become legal? At least 3 times today at work I had the pleasure of dealing with people in their 30′s or 40′s who were very clearly strung out and REEEEEEEEEEking of pot. I mean really, are people that board up here that the only thing grown adults can find to do is get high?
3 – Why is sexism tolerated? It never fails, at least 5 times a day, I get 60 year old men just hooting and hollering about not being able to find their wives in the store and did I see a good for nothing woman anywhere? Never a useful description of the person they lost, always some sort of insult directed at women in general. The names these men call their wives, the way they treat them with such scorn and contempt is deplorable. I hope their wives have their wits about them enough to crack these sorry old men right in the balls….and in public.
Clearly I had an interesting day at work. In all, not such a bad day, just interesting. It’s funny that there are times at work when I risk being called a prude by my peers for having such issues with the way people treat each other. I’m told that’s just the way they are. Well, why is that and why should I for a minute feel a need or be compelled to lower myself to that standard? It’s fairly easy for me to say that before I moved up here, I’d never really been exposed to adults who exhibit such poor social skills as part of their everyday existence. Amazing.
