Come to your senses
Filed under: SocietyI recently thought that I would pack up my bitchy ways and try to love society once more. To once again try to understand humanity; so I could appreciate and respect all people. I thought that perhaps I was becoming too cynical, sarcastic and pessimistic. That if I tried once more, I would be able to adapt and accept modern British society.
Wishful fucking thinking: everywhere I go there are marvellous almost impossible displays of human stupidity. To the point where I’m starting to think that we are now evolving backwards. (No I’m not sure how that works either but you get my drift.)
I swear humanity is becoming brain-dead. Why does nobody read anymore? Actually scratch that, why don’t people THINK anymore? I thought we humans were born with a basic understanding of common sense.
Common sense is quite simple. Not sure about something? Ask. Shit? Wipe arse. See it’s easy.
So why do people still not get it?!
In a shop I work at we have signs dotted around the establishment to explain certain purchase requirements. Admittedly the shop itself can be quite complicated (too many rules) but in its defence there were ALWAYS clear signs explaining.
For example, there was a scenario where a customer brought to the till one single shower gel that she picked up from the bargain bin which clearly had a sign above it that read, “Bargain Bin – items from £5- only available with any other purchase in store - not sold individually. “
When I told her that I couldn’t sell it to her individually she said,
Her- “Where does it say that?”
Me -“Errm- on the sign right above it.”
Her -“Oh, well that wasn’t very clear.”
WHAT!? HOW IS THAT NOT CLEAR!? ARE YOU THICK AS WELL AS BLIND?!
Another one that I love is,
Me - “That’ll be £7.50 please.”
Him- “But it says £5 on the sign.”
Me- “No, it says FROM £5…”
Him: “Oh…”
FOR GOD SAKE.
The sheer display of stupidity and ignorance baffles me most times. I’ve honestly come to the conclusion that most people only read what they want to believe. So instead of reading FROM £5 they read FOR £5. Who then gets shitty with me, who in return corrects them and relishes in their inevitable embarrassment. Read the sign(s) then you wouldn’t feel like such a blunt knob.
Also be aware and look as well: if there’s a sign there then it’s probably there for a good reason. So READ IT. I remember watching a man walk past two huge ass signs that clearly stated “Sorry but these toilets are CLOSED due to flooding. Please use the other toilets in the main square.” He then proceeded to try to open the blatantly CLOSED doors to try to get into the toilets that were obviously CLOSED and it wasn’t like the signs were obstructed they were right in front the door that he was trying to open.
So I think we need to all start being more aware (myself included) and read signs, ask people when you don’t know, use you’re fucking eyes. Because we’re lucky that we can, and we should always remember that.
