So What Do You Think Of Free Stuff On Counters?

[GroobyKrissy]

So, I was standing in line at the bank today waiting to deposit the massive check I received from people donating to the "Keep Krissy Alive Fund". The bank had these little dishes of hard candies put out on the counter. The person in front of me (and I'm not trying to be stereotypical here... this is true) was an obese, middle-aged woman who really didn't need any more candy.

While she was waiting for the teller to finish up the transaction, she took her purse, making no attempt at all to be discreet, and proceeded to empty the dish of candy into it. The teller just kind of stared at her and the lady proceeded to say rather loudly, "Well, if you don't want people to take them, don't put them out there." She then took her receipt and walked out... leaving us, standing in line, and the teller rather dumbstruck.

Does she have a point though?

[fred41]

Does she have a point though?

Only among those who are missing the dignity gene.

[GroobyKrissy]

Only among those who are missing the dignity gene.

Seriously, right!

[danthepoetman]

Politeness is normally the way by which we chose to deal with one another; it's a conventional code, of course, but put in place a long time ago. When someone seems totally impervious to it, it's normal to be shocked. Think about it: without any of it, we would all want to kill each others continually...
The answer is NO, in my opinion she didn't, Krissy.

(Btw, politeness is conventional in its forms, but a behavioral code is phylogenetically inscribe in us...)

[fred41]

Politeness is normally the way by which we chose to deal with one another; it's a conventional code, of course, but put in place a long time ago. When someone seems totally impervious to it, it's normal to be shocked. Think about it: without any of it, we would all want to kill each others continually...
The answer is NO, in my opinion she didn't, Krissy.

(Btw, politeness is conventional in its forms, but a behavioral code is phylogenetically inscribe in us...)

The code doesn't prevent me from thinking about killing everybody..or wanting to...but it does help prevent me from actually doing it. Well,... that and not wanting to be raped in prison by Vic Morrow. Like in "The Glass House".

[youngblood61]

She does, and I had a guy I work with say the same thing as he took a handful of Peppermint patties. Free is free, but greediness is so rude!

[danthepoetman]

The code doesn't prevent me from thinking about killing everybody..or wanting to...but it does help prevent me from actually doing it. Well,... that and not wanting to be raped in prison by Vic Morrow. Like in "The Glass House".

Fred, these are fine and accurate observations. I'm putting them in my little book of facts!

[Sulka_bewitched_me]

Hey Krissy, were the candies wrapped or unwrapped? If they were unwrapped then take solace in the fact that dishes left out for "all" to help themselves usually are filthy, bacterial ridden petri dishes because (some) people don't wash their hands after using the facilities. If they were wrapped then she obviously is uncouth & lacks any sense of decorum.

[runround04]

You get 1, fuckin 1! Its not that hard a concept to understand. People like her are why the world hates the America.

[GroobyKrissy]

Hey Krissy, were the candies wrapped or unwrapped? If they were unwrapped then take solace in the fact that dishes left out for "all" to help themselves usually are filthy, bacterial ridden petri dishes because (some) people don't wash their hands after using the facilities. If they were wrapped then she obviously is uncouth & lacks any sense of decorum.

Wrapped. They were just those white and red mints... Nothing even fancy or particularly tasty.