Why am i waiting...

No, Andy Warhol, it doesn't.

I absolutely, HATE waiting. I dont care what the reasons are, if i need to go somewhere, and i have told you we are going at said time, then you are either ready or i get cross.

I don't care what the excuse is, i just can not standing waiting for anyone.

I don't think that this is classed as impatient, cos when something is loading or frozen, (like a computer and junk), but if its somebody that i am waiting on, well, they better get their hurry on!!.

I dont know what it is, but i think it may have something to do with me not being able to be late. I get all antsy when i know that im even going to get somewhere on time and not early, (please note this antsy feeling does not include when im coming into work).

So, advance warning, if you are going anywhere with me, do not make me wait!!

I think that i have new neighbours... 

Now i live in a pretty fancy building, ( well for my area). Myself and my husband are the least 'posh' in the building. I know this from the looks that i get in the lifts.. 

Anyway, back to my neighbours. 

I dont really talk to my neighbours. 

But i know that they are new. 

How do i know this, you ask? 

Well, i know cause at about the same time every night, ( usually 11.30 or later), loud music starts playing... loud repetivte annoying music... 

RIGHT NEXT TO MY BEDROOM WALL. 

Even though i have not met my 'new' neighbours, i already hate them. 

Ps. They also play the same annoying music early on the weekend. 

I only wish my neighbours were like the show. 

Manners

I have noticed more and more that shop keepers are getting ruder and ruder. 

Example:

This morning, i went to the usual shop that i go to every morning to buy some juice to go with my breakfast. This is a supermarket, and i get that they are semi busy, (but not really at that time of the morning) . So back to the example.... I have headphones in my ears, but make sure to turn off the music when i am in the queue to pay and esp when i am getting served, cause otherwise that's just rude.  The lady that served me this morning, did not greet me, did not acknowledge me, DID NOT TELL ME THE PRICE OF MY ITEM (i knew the price cause i buy the same thing, but still!!), and continued to talk to her work mate the whole time!!! 

PS. I always have a habit of saying have a good day, from my days of being a shop keeper, so i said it, but it was not repeated to me!!

Now, i don't think that i ask too much from the shop keepers when all i want is to greet me at the very least. That's all, really. The rest of the junk would be great, but not likely considering the way the world is now,but gosh. 

Now compare that to the other shop i go to, to actually purchase my breakfast, (yes, i spend way too much money on food that i could eat at home). 

The *super nice* lady remembers what i buy (yes, again i buy the same thing every day, i like routine, alright?) and asks me whether i still want that. She smiles when she greets me. She offers me extra stuff if what i am buying is on the small size, (not i know that's pushing it, but still!!). She thanks me and she says, 'have a good day/weekend' (dependent on the day obviously). 

Now I know the second example is way too much to expect, but still I just can't get over the rudeness that is going on with the shop keepers these days. Back in my day, ('cos I'm like 50 now) , you actually cared what people thought of your business... I guess there is either too much choice or not enough these days, so it doesn't matter anymore.

Ps. I get that people like to have fun and social lives in their workplace, and that's what shop keeper A was doing, but still...

Pps. Is shopkeeper even the right word to use??

Excuse me, do you have a spare one dollar?

This morning on the way to work, i was on the train and a guy was going around with some coins and saying, 'excuse me, do you have a spare one dollar' to almost every person he saw. (He didn't come to me, probably 'cos i had headphones in, but he was loud enough so i could hear him). 

Anyway, as i was looking around the carriage, not one person gave him any money, and some didn't even acknowledge him at all!! 

Now i live in an area populated by a lot of homeless people, and my old house was right next door to a homeless drop in centre, so loads of people like this: 

But this guy on the train this morning was not like that. He seemed better dressed then that, and he didn't have that usual homeless person smell. 

But i noticed several people give each other that look like he was nothing more then nothing, and he didn't even deserve to be near them. 

It got me thinking. In this time, when the Economic Issues ares the biggest news story, (as long as there isn't another sports sex scandal, if you are in Australia), it could have be those people looking at each other who are next weeks beggars. (I know probably exaggeration, but still!!)

I get that people may not like to give money to 'homeless' people and they may not even have the money to spare, i get all that. What i dont get is, the holier then thou looks that people give homeless people. 

I admit, i dont give money to every homeless person i pass ( i couldn't otherwise i would end up next to them.), and i admit some of the ones out near me probably have drug/alcohol issues, but this guy just seemed different to that. 

Maybe i am just used to the worser *is that even a word??* type of homeless people, but i dont know. It just made me sad for the world, that someone can just be ignored, just cause they are different. 

• Homelessness is the condition and social category of people who lack housing, because they cannot afford (pay for), or are otherwise unable (or uninterested) to maintain, regular, safe, and adequate shelter.
  
• The term homelessness may also include people whose primary nighttime residence is in a homeless shelter, in an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or in a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
  
• An estimated 100 million people worldwide are homeless

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness