C2V wrote:
I really wish people would stop telling me everything I do and everything I am is not appropriate, when others go and do inappropriate shite all the time that is not at all in line with this social script.
The inconsistency drives me crazy - I think I've learned what the standards are and then people just go and violate their own BS code and no one cares.
Train travel - I was always indoctrinated that you get in, sit still, shut up, don't do anything that will disturb others such as noise or eating or moving about, read a book or look out the window, then get off.
Some woman gets in to the designated quiet carriage, starts having a domestic dispute and screaming at someone, takes off her clothes right down to a sports top and shorts, gets out all these clothes from a bag and proceeds to dress herself like an Eskimo gyrating around exaggeratedly while she does so, screams at some stranger, then gets a bunch of paper towels and starts "cleaning" the seats, sits down, starts eating, then produces a q-tip and starts digging in her ears with it and examining the results, then asks me "what are you looking at?"
A junkie, I hope, or my understanding of what is "appropriate" is off by a mile.
It seems people have NO IDEA how to behave appropriately in public, but still get to tell me I'm "weird."
Boy can I relate. People can be so ignorant, and also nasty.
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