Let me get some people's responses out of the way, yes, I am sure that I am selfish too. But, I don't do these two things, and they are what I am complaining about today, so deal with it.
Case 1: I was at church on Sunday, imagine that. It was Mother's Day, and our ward decided to bless all of the mothers with a particularly crappy set of speakers. Now, I know that I am sometimes too harsh. I shouldn't judge others based upon their speaking ability, as that is something that many cannot help. HOWEVER, even Alisa thought it was bad, and she can find the silver lining on almost any bad lesson or talk, because she is much less judgemental than I. The first two speakers were merely bad, the final speaker, I wanted to stab in the eye.
He got up to speak with approximately 2 minutes left in the meeting. Granted, this is not his fault, I don't blame him for how late he got up, its totally out of his control (though maybe he should have a talk with his wife about how to STOP TALKING, however after listening to him, he may not be the best person to give that lesson). I looked at the clock and though, alright, he better keep it short, because Hyrum has already had it and Sacrament meeting only has 2 minutes to go. I will forgo complaining about the vast amounts of wildly harsh comments he made that wouldn't have made any mother feel better, and I will even sidestep lambasting him about the reams of false doctrine he taught. Suffice it to say, he finished speaking at 10:30! You read that right, half past ten. Hyrum had screamed himself to sleep by this time, which I highly envied.
My pet peeve. This guy felt like his talk was more important than any lesson that any sunday school teacher had prepared, or priesthood and relief society. Not to mention the problems caused in Primary by the huge chunk taken out of the schedule. Nooooo, his incredible thoughts were much more important than those, not to mention the people with little kids who can already hardly make it through the entire sacrament service, let alone an extra twenty minutes. Yeah. Pure selfishness. sprinkled liberally with arrogance.
Case 2: This has always bothered me, and I'd love to meet a person, individually that does this, so I can vent on them. Saturday night I was at the Real Salt Lake game (we won 2-1 by the way). As we were leaving, I turned to Alisa and said that I can't comprehend how people can just get up, and leave all of their piles of trash at their seat and walk away. I'm flabbergasted. I mean, you walk out right past a garbage can. I am completely astounded by this mindset. If you are one of these people, you are an idiot, pick up your trash, and throw it in the garbage. Great honk.
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Case in point: I had a smoking hot talk prepared as a surprise Mother's Day talk in Mom's ward. The Bishop's son took way too long and left me about 7 minutes for a 15 minute talk. I did go a couple minutes over but just a couple! Granted, my kids were the only kids in the congregations and Ben had to be taken out 3 times, but the concept applies no matter what!
and PICK UP YOUR FREAKING TRASH!!!
Mmmmm...Bacon
I wonder if anyone has done any sort of scientific sociological study on just who the litterers are. Obviously this would be very hard since everybody knows such behavior is rude, immoral, and frequently unlawful. So there are serious obstacles to this sort of experiment, but I would love to know who these people are. I really wonder if it correlates with other sorts of stupid infuriating antisocial self-centered lifestyle choices.
You know, the stadium employs people to clean it afterwards. You would be taking a job away from someone if you convinced everyone to keep their areas clean. Just a thought from your friendly, bloggerhood socialist. Go Obama!
Thomas, that is the dumbest argument ever. We should probably also stop discouraging crime, as a lack of prisoners would put the prison guard out of a job. (Also, I doubt the gum that was left on my stadium seat last season was intended to benefit our dear cleanup crew. I hope the fact that it went home with me, attached to the butt of my jeans, did not cause a shortage of work for them).
Mark needs a job.
I agree with everyone who isn't Thomas. I had never been to any type of sporting event until Real Salt Lake came about. I'm more of a musical theater/opera/ballet/symphony type of gal. The difference in the way the audience/fans treat their surroundings is amazing. Just because we're not in formals with glittering bracelets, doesn't mean we can act like filthy dumb-faces. If everyone picked up their own trash, it wouldn't take any longer for them to get out of the stadium. However, when all 12,000 fans leave their crap all over the place, many times it forces the cleanup crew to work into the next day for them. You may not be breaking the Sabbath by going to the store, but you're making somebody else work all day Sunday to clean up after you. Do you suppose it counts as breaking the Sabbath for the Lord?
I don't know. Thomas has a point. I would hate to force layoffs.
Oh, and Karen, I don't think its necessariley because the theater going public is better, but when was the last time you could get some nachos at the symphony?
BTW you tards, Thomas was being sarcastic
I would be disgusted as well if someone left his/her crap in the stands. Thank goodness the bathroom lines are long during halftime.
It would be so awesome if you could get nachos at the theater. The symphony always makes me crave hot pockets. mmmmmm.
Now, litter:
"That's not MY trash. It's not MY responsibility!"
People don't trash up the things they RESPECT and feel a part of. I think that's one reason the church has us clean up the buildings. When everyone is working together to create something nice, we want it to stay nice. Because Cora &co have gone around the neighborhood picking up garbage a few times, they are horrified by the very thought of littering. But the kids next door-who have no respect for anything, including themselves-
think nothing of tossing pop cans, McDonald's wrappers, and even old furniture all over their own yard!
I think its a combo of respect (or lack therof) and laziness.
If a rabid sports fan thought another teams fan was disrespecting their stadium, they would freak out. But that same fan knows for a fact that the next time he comes and sits down in his seat, it will be clean, without popcorn bags, or nacho covered plates. And won't have his last weeks spilled soda all over the seat. If he had to come back and sit in the same junk he left the week before, I'm guessing he'd be more likley to pick it up.
And I'm with you Camille. I'd be much more interested in the Symphony if I could have some Nachos while I listened.
letting your talk go long equates to astronomical selfishness? easy dan. nobody likes to sit and listen to a long, crappy talk... but I think you might have been stewing in your own juices for too long.
Stewing in his juices? *shudder*
Taylor. Let me explain again why I think it was astronomical selfishness.
1- His talk went 30 minutes over.
Now, lets look at who this affects.
-People with very small children. It is already a bit of a struggle to get little kids who may be tired or hungry to sit through an hour and 15 minutes of sacrament meeting, but its important to do so. However, when you go over by a long time, it becomes exponentially harder.
-Anyone who has prepared a lesson. Other people spend time and effort to get their lessons prepared. Sunday School teachers, Primary teachers, Priesthood and Relief Society teachers.
-Anyone in charge of an organization, Sunday School presidencies, Primary presidencies, young men's etc.
-Anyone who may be in charge of a sharing time in Primary.
For one person to decide that what they want to say in a talk is important enough to screw up the preparation of all of those other people is astronomical selfishness. It doesn't result in deaths, or massive property damage. But it is, nonetheless, astronomically selfish.
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