Howdy, Folks!
Today is Saturday. I love Saturdays for a number of reasons. Jae usually opens at the hotel on Saturdays so I get to sleep in a bit longer. I phone my daughter every Saturday morning which starts my day off with a smile. I rarely schedule students on the weekends if my schedule will allow it so that means sweats, a cup of coffee and a leisurely start to the day.....
BUT....it's also the day that I do most of the work around the house that I have been too busy (or, let's face it, lazy) to keep up with during the week. That also usually includes shopping for the kitchen staples for the week ahead. And THAT means going out and dealing with...PEOPLE.
Now, I've probably said this before but I feel very blessed to live where I do. I love our apartment and if I never had to leave here....well, let's just say I find our home to be a gigantic engraved invitation to agoraphobia!
ag·o·ra·pho·bi·a [ag-er-uh-foh-bee-uh]–noun Psychiatry .n abnormal fear of being in crowds, public places, or open areas, sometimes accompanied by anxiety attacks.
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It doesn't make me anxious, really. I would just rather not watch some of the stuff that goes on out there. I know I only have a few followers and that this blog is supposed to be about things that go on in the home for the most part but I have a little list of things I just don't want to see out on the streets of New York (or anywhere else for that matter) anymore.
1. I don't want to see mothers/nannies pushing strollers into oncoming traffic because they are on their cell phones and have forgotten (or never knew) the basics about personal space and paying attention to their surroundings.
2. I don't want to have to politely say, "excuse me" MORE THAN ONCE to exit onto my own floor from the back of an elevator. Nor do I care to elbow my way past people who have forgotten (or never knew) the basics about personal space and paying attention to their surroundings. Do you see a trend starting here?
3. I don't want to have to be stuck behind a chorus line of ladies of a certain age, blithely (and slowly) walking seven or eight abreast down the sidewalks of New York and taxing my resolve NOT to get up really close to them and screaming at the top of my formidable lungs, "RED ROVER, RED ROVER!" just so that those of us who live here and have places to be can get our daily chores and responsibilities taken care of.
4. I don't want to have to trip over someone who stops dead in their tracks, right in front of me on the street just to answer their cell phone or to start a new text message. We all have work to do. If you were in a car, my hope is that you'd pull over to do that kind of thing. Try using the same logic on the street and be aware of...um... the basics of personal space and your surroundings.
5. GIVE YOUR DAMNED SEAT TO SOMEONE ELDERLY, PHYSICALLY IMPAIRED OR JUST SOMEONE WHO LOOKS MORE IN NEED OF A PLACE TO SIT in the subway and on the bus. It's just common courtesy - which apparently isn't as common as one might imagine anymore. BOY, do I feel old when I say that!
There are others not listed here, of course, but I feel a rant coming on and no one likes to listen to (or read) a manifesto on manners. This is by no means a comprehensive list, by any stretch of the imagination, and please feel free to contact me with suggested additions and I will happily comply! Now, of course, it's off to do all the things that Saturdays demand.
I will be back on more constructive topics very soon. Thanks for listening!
-SSG
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