Monday, August 4, 2008
Soap Is Cheap
Okay....I'm going to warn you this is another one of those blogs that might cause some people to get mad at me. I just can't help it. I had to go to the Social Security office today to get some paperwork straightened out. (paperwork that has to do with the kids getting their survivor benefits since they had a parent to die...but that is beside the point...just explains why I was there.) So anyway, I walk in get my number and wait. The entire place is full...not one seat. So I stand. I'm a people watcher, so I covertly observe people while waiting. There were a disproportionate number of young women there. Women with MANY children. I overheard one woman tell a lady sitting near where I was standing, that she had 5 kids...then I heard her tell another girl that she turns 25 next month. She wasn't married. Then another young woman came up to me and said, "Do you know how the @#5$! I can find out if my number was called when I was out smoking?" I just stared at her at first. I couldn't believe that she would have thought that was appropriate to talk to me like that! I think she assumed I worked there since I was standing and was dressed nicely. IF she thought I worked there, she certainly didn't know how to be respectful. Another lady plopped down and cussed out the security guard for telling her what she needed to do. It just made me think that people who resort to crass language as a way of communication make themselves look unintelligent. It's just a fact. Sprinkling ones sentences with curse words makes them look like they have a very small vocabulary to work from. In the meantime the security guard is having it out with a young man about not using his cell phone in the building. The guy gave him attitude. The security guard told him this is a federal building and he would be escorted out if he didn't shut his mouth. The guy, I guess, decided it would be better for him to just shut his mouth than be arrested. Finally, I will end my observations today with this thought: It does not take a lot of money to buy soap and shampoo. People can be poor and still be clean. I don't care how much money a person makes, or where they live. I don't care how educated (or uneducated) they are or what circumstances they live in. Being clean, having a smile, and speaking kindly to others is a choice.
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OK, you know I can't let this one go.... Nothing wrong with 5 children... HAHA !!! However... My pet peeve is that she was 25 and probably in there on a "program" supported by OUR TAX DOLLARS and we probably paid for her birth control implant so she isn't on the way with number 6 ! ( Hence I have heard of birth control you see !!! haha ) AND she is paying for her cigarettes, beer and all the attention she is recieving every night from the different fella's who offered to take her home from the bar where she "works " . I am amazed at the mentality also of people in public places. And I am only talking about Wal-Mart...haha.
ReplyDeleteI get frustrated with these people because there are many of us who can't get medical cards or food stamps or be on a "program" for health care because we work for living, plan for retirement and learn the true meaning of budget... Yet we get to pay for some smart mouthed little girl with a flock of kids , and not a lick of sense, to curse and smoke while she is in line waiting to receive her welfare... You should have said to the security guard... " Yeah these are our tax dollars hard at work. " It bothers me that we with out health insurance just do what we have to do to pay for medical, and food, bills etc... and they can stand in line and complain about the length of the line, need a cigarette break and get as rude as they smell ! I am with you... ALthought soap is not something they can buy with food stamps...and by the time they pay for their habits they can't afford soap!!