BELOW A LETTER I HAVE FORWARDED TO WOOLWORTHS ... READ CONTENT ... WE HAVE A SAD SOCIETY OF INCREASINGLY INCONSIDERATE FOLK FROM ALL STRATA ... BUT WORSE OF ALL AND WHAT STICKS IN MY CRAW IS THE RACE CARD WHEN CERTAIN INCONSIDERATE FOLK CHALLENGED ..
READ AM I CORRECT IN MY STANCE ??
GOOD EVENING , I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH DISABLED PARKING BAYS AT YOUR BRANCH IN CAPE TOWN OPPOSITE THE RED CROSS HOSPITAL ... I AM A REGULAR CUSTOMER THERE ( NO I AM NOT DISABLED BUT A CARING CITIZEN ) AND SO MANY TIMES I SEE NON DISABLED CARS PARKED IN THE DISABLED BAYS IE : NO DISABLED STICKER ... I HAVE ON A FEW OCCASIONS CHALLENGED THE PEOPLE PARKED THERE WHO ARE OBVIOUSLY NOT DISABLED ONLY TO BE THROWN A RACE CARD .. SIMPLE THING IS THESE FOLK ARE TOO LAZY TO WALK A FEW EXTRA METRES .. I HAVE ENGAGED MANAGEMENT THERE ABOUT THIS PROBLEM AND I GET THE SHRUGGING OF SHOULDERS AND " WELL SIR ITS A DIFFICULT THING WE CLAMP THEM AND GET ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS " WELL I DONT SEE IT AS A PROBLEM ITS BASIC INCONSIDERATION AND LAZINESS ON THE PART OF THE PERPETRATORS WHO PARK THERE DESPITE THE DISABLED SIGNS BEING LARGELY DISPLAYED .. I SUGGEST YOU GIVE A STERN BRIEF OF ZERO TOLERANCE TO YOUR MANAGEMENT , THAT BEING WOOLWORTHS IS THE ANCHOR TENANT THERE ,, AND YES ALWAYS ESPOUSES FAIRNESS ETC ... I RECALL SO MANY TIMES IN THE LESS THAN 10 QUEUE AT SOME SHOPS WHEN DESPITE IT BEING CLEARLY SIGNPOSTED A MANAGER KINDLY INFORMING A CUSTOMER WITH A LOADED TROLLEY THAT THEY WERE INCONVENIENCING THE CUSTOMERS IN THAT QUEUE .. THAT IS WHAT GOOD SERVICE IS ABOUT , WE PAY A PREMIUM AT WOOLWORTHS FOR QUALITY GOODS AND SERVICE AND IF THE ATTITUDE OF A MINORITY OF PEOPLE WITH NO BREEDING AND MANNERS OR CONSIDERATION WHO SHOVE THEIR WAY AROUND INTERFERES WITH YOUR PROMISE OF A QUALITY SHOPPING EXPERIENCE THEN THEY ARE WELCOME TO SHOP ELSEWHERE WHERE JUMPING QUEUES , TAKING THE WRONG TILL LANE OR TAKING OVER DISABLED PARKING BAYS IS ACCEPTED .. WE DONT NEED THEM IN YOUR QUALITY SPACE ... REGARDS ALEXANDER BUCHANAN
I absolutely agree Sandy. My mom has a disabled sticker and just last week at Bayside I threw a wobbly.Here I approached the diabled bays as only I can "Here comes Diana and Elsie make way" kind of attitude only to find them all full. Fair enough,but not to be outdone I found myself a little gap out of the way close to the door and asked the sercurity if I could park there with my sticker and my 80yr old mother with the broken knees as all the bays were taken. Oh no says he. After much debate a car pulled out from normal bay close by and I ended up parking there which was fine. Then as I passed the disabled bays I noticed not one but 2 Mercs parked there without stickers soooooooooo of I marched to the same said sercurity man and dragged him along to the offending cars wheel clamps and all.After our shopping Mom and I sat at a coffee shop close by waiting to see said offenders faces. Out came perfectly healthy young people what followed was priceless.................Geez that was a long story. image04
Dead right Sandy! whether its queue jumping, parking in disabled parking spots, driving a vehicle, or loutish behaviour, Manners have disappeared, this below is from a British survey.
More than half (56.5 per cent) of Britons believe that bad manners is the biggest problem in the country today with 67 per cent saying that it is the root cause of anti-social behaviour plaguing society.
In a wide-ranging survey on modern manners for ITV1's Tonight programme, 86.2 per cent of respondents (2800 adults responded to the survey) said the Britons are ruder now than 10 years ago. And 85.5% of respondents said they would prefer to receive a 'please or thank-you' than a £1 from a stranger.
Spitting (27.6 per cent) and swearing (20.2 per cent) were named as the two most offensive behaviours, with others such as queue-jumping, not saying please or thank you, inconsiderate driving, belching/passing wind, speaking loudly on a mobile phone, playing music loudly on a MP3 player and not giving up a seat for a pregnant woman coming much further down the list.
TOP 10 RUDE BEHAVIOURS
Spitting 27.6%
Swearing 20.2%
Queue jumping/pushing in 13.3%
Not saying please or thank-you 10.1%
Playing loud music on a personal music player in a public space 6.9%
Passing wind/belching in public 4.8%
Speaking loudly on a mobile phone in a public space 4.7%
Inconsiderate driving i.e. stealing someone's parking space 4.7%
People not giving their seat up for a pregnant lady 3.3%................. well have not seen a pregnant man yet
Not holding the door for the next person 1.8%
None of these 2.7%
Well were does the blame lie...................Could it be Political ape ape correctness.....?????
So true. Moral values definitely going out the back door... I think education here big part to play, and I'm also talking about education which starts at home.
Simple example- I had patient on Saturday. Wanted to open a file - she mumbles address and name (after I asked her to put down cellphone for a minute - was busy "mixit"-ing), so I gave her the form to fill in herself - she is 22 years old, but doesn't know what her date of birth was??? Then her address - contained the surname "Oosthuizen", which she spelled: "Osthysin", and address was Posbus xxx, which she spelled "posbis". Now tell me, how do you expect a society to be considerate (taking other people into consideration in daily life), if you obviously don't have the most basic skills? Well yes, the hair is done, nails painted, funky clothes, jewelery everywhere, latest cellphone in hand, but reading, writing, counting.... absent !
SAD!
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I still blame what is happening these days on the lack of basic discipline. If children were taught to behave and respect others and their belongings from their parents, many of today's problems would not be there.
Walking in our local mall the other day, I was shocked to see the attitude by teenagers pushing their way through door entrances etc without due regard to those around them. If these same children, yes I call them children were taught basic discipline at an earlier age then this would not be happening at all. But is it too late to start................??????????
Quote from: Mike Voden on March 02, 2010, 06:56:22 AM
I still blame what is happening these days on the lack of basic discipline. If children were taught to behave and respect others and their belongings from their parents, many of today's problems would not be there.
SO VERY TRUE. :emot112_2:
Agreed on all said ... I await my answer from woolies .... sadly so the usual perpetrators are usualy huge SUV's , Merc and BMW's and yes all the folk perfectly healthy ... My habit at shopping centers is to try park away from the melee so as to avoid damage to vehicle from inconsiderate door thrower openers .. and yes walk the mile ..
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Sandy there was a Current Affairs program on the TV a little while ago, and they were highlighting this subject 'ie' people parking in disabled spots. The camera's were rolling and this BMW parked in one of these spots, the lady got out and limped till she was away from the vehicle, when she thought she was safe she started walking normally. That was until the TV crew approached her and asked about her behaviour. The lady replied to there questions, and they, replayed the scene of her parking and limping away ..................she got very angry at them and walked off..................with a limp
Hi all .. update on this one .... actually pure providence .. we had a good lunch with Kaye ( our current OM exile ) a walk to the garden plot and more chats ,,, mm seems I choose my friends well ,, they got the same attitude ,,, we actually were talking about the disabled bay thing , queue jumping etc ... anyhow Kaye went of to her exile palace ,, I dropped my congolese painter off at Mowbray and then proceeded to woolies in klipfontein road ( the same one )
To relate ... In the middle of last week as I was walking from my car to the entrance and I saw a car parking with no disabled sticker ,, I smiled and pointed to the sign ,, the lady with her daughter in the car smiled and promtly hung her disabled sticker on the mirror ... then proceeded to get out of the car with her walking sticks ... I carried on .. in the shop ... in the shop she engaged me and said " thank you for being so considerate to take a stand for us with disability ,,, I dont drive with the sticker on the mirror because it distracts my view " that was a good moment ...
Anyhow as I am leaving woolies this evening .. I see a Honda Ballade parked there .. there is a young man in the back seat ... my curiosity and radar on alert .. no disabled sticker ...
History .. I am used to being in this situation kind of ignored or called racist by the mama in her suv .. blindly nose in the air ignored by the skinny trophy wife in her merc ... derogatory racist retort from the young dumb full of cum , spoilt rotten by daddy perfectly healthy young men in their bling bmw or whatever .. in case anyone asks No I have not yet had to engage any young WASP in the act of inconsideration ...
This evening was an eye opener ... as I got to my car I observed this perfectly healthy middle aged man wearing a certain type of headgear that indicates that he goes to his place of worship regularly prays fervently, and displays this really holier than thou attitude walking back to the car with his equally healthy and mobile daughter .. I engaged him and asked if he was aware that he was parked in a disabled parking space ... the answer was ,,, what has it got to do with you ... I replied calmly it has to do with the fact that one day you or one of your family may need to use this space , your children in the car are observing this and are not being given the right example ... the tirade I got was horrendous ...
F.... you whats it got to do with you .... My response ... aren't you ashamed of the way you are carrying n in front of your teenage children ?? what sort of example are you setting ?? more f... you and go ffff yourself and the finger offered in the hope I might want to spiral on it ... me all the time calm and very in control .. asked again are you not ashamed of the display you are giving to your children ... more fff you anf ffff urself ... he then departs ,,, the finger hoping for my wanting to spiral my self on it displayed from the window ...
Saaad saad very sad part of this was there were people within 1 m of me seeing and hearing this display of utter inconsideration and rudeness ... and they did not even take notice ,, instead carrying on with their whatever mindless duck and don't get involved conversation ... is this where its at today ... ??
The man concerned will tomorrow go to his place of worship ,, play the devout ... not realizing he has done major damage ... his children have now seen how they should behave in future whenever doing something wrong ... and worse so is seeing that most folk around don't give a hoot so their chances of getting away with it are even greater ... aaag theres a few unhappy disturbed folk around .. most people don't take notice so we can do whatever ,,, sad sad sad ...
Ugh, that boils the blood. So sad indeed. Should have something like that on film and play it in their place of worship on a big screen, with a spotlight shining down on them for all to see their true colors...
It is sad to hear and see, I agree that it all starts at home. Children are not brought up the way we were with respect and morals. Instead today parents give them money and drop them off at malls etc and they just do thier own thing. Bertie, that will be a good one you mentioned to play it on a big screen at the church. I belive there will be a lot of red faces!!!!
I use the Sandy logic and park a good distance from the entrances, as I find it a lot easier to get out of the parking lot! Recently I was in a mall parking lot in PE with my daughter, and having walked from the car to the entrance, we noticed one of these "lazy" shoppers parking in a disabled bay. My daughter whispered to me that there didn't seem to be anything wrong with the "lady", to which I answered in a voice loud enough to be heard by said transgressor "Shame my darling, but she is disabled......she can't read!" You won't believe it, but she got back into her car and moved it!!
I think Bob Dylan said it 40 years ago:
"Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you don't understand.
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'!
Thank goodness sometimes something happens that's on the total opposite end of the spectrum....
Last weekend I saw something here that left me completely speechless - it was almost too good to be true. Here's the feel-good story of a wonderful gesture:
My Dad was visiting me at the plot for a few days. He left again at around 7 am on the Saturday morning - it was still pitch dark. The gate to the plot is about 100m from the house. He stopped at the gate, and for some reason switched the car off, and got out to unlock the gate in the dark. A small white car came down the road which runs down the side of the property. The driver of the car saw my Dad standing at the gate, trying to open the lock, so he stopped, reversed at an angle so his car's lights would shine on the lock for my Dad to see better, and when my Dad had the gate open, waved and continued on his way....
Now isn't that just wonderful? Ok, there's some unwanted low-lifes everywhere, but something like this makes it worth staying in the platteland? He had absolutely no obligation to do what he did, and the sad part is, I don't even know them - I wish I could see the registration number - I would certainly have liked to give them a bottle of honey, or some Melon & ginger jam I cooked just to say thank you!
Its all good Bertie ... thats the common thread of human decency and consideration that should be in existenece at all times .. in traffic with folk trying to merge I give space ,, in return I normally get it ... the universal give and take normally applies .. for the inconsidierate cretins I try to bite my ass and forget they actually exsit ,, unfortunately I am constantly reminded they indeed do ... take a few breaths and let it pass through ,, then again at times stand your ground and give them hell that they deserve ,,,, hammer