I just wanted to say thank you to the nice gentlemen who watched me slip in the snow and fall on Duke street early yesterday morning. I really appreciate that instead of helping me back up, or even asking if I was alright, you decided to step directly over me and keep going.
Thank you for the common courtesy…
—Thought People Had More Manners…
This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2010.
Haha….I would have laughed too. Learn how to walk.
HA!
perhaps he thought you were fugly and didn’t want to waste his time…
or perhaps his family were being held hostage and he had no time to spare in saving them.
guess we’ll never know.
do you have to sit on an inflatable doughnut?
that’s mean 🙁
You know, he could have walked right on top of you !
Would have been even more rude, but it was a possibility.
Many people are retreating into themselves IMO , & I believe political correctness gone haywire, the feminist movements stand on women being equal & people just not giving a flying fuck about anything not inside their self inclusive bubble of concern, to be part of the reason for this.
Not too mention, have you or any of the others who post here, ever taken a first aid course ?
If you have, you’ll know that , if you offer yourself up to ‘help’ someone, you are then obligated to continue to help that person until someone else like a medical professional, cop, fireman etc. comes & takes over the burden of responsibility. If you start to help someone & just up & leave, you could find yourself facing criminal charges. On the other side though, if you do try to help someone to the best of your ability, & you end up causing them some or more harm, you are protected by the ‘good samaritan’ legislation…
Even though you weren’t badly injured & would have liked a helping hand & that in this case was all you really needed, my above example could be a reason someone didn’t want to get involved ! my 2 cents.
Or maybe, just like every other man in this city has come to realize: when you help a woman (the OP is clearly a female) with anything she will think it’s a pervy attempt to get into your pants. For your effort, you get a dirty look, and nothing else. So why bother?
Actually More, I’ve got my standard First-Aid. Not just the emergency. Thankfully I’ve never had to use it, but I know if I did, I would. Just so long as I got behind those beautiful good-Samaritan laws.
Your perv comment IMO actually has some merit Dr.Fever .
I come from a small town ,& now live just outside a village, & the way people behave to each other in these areas is noticably different, even though I’m only 30 miles from downtown Halifax. What I and several other locals here are really noticing, & have commented to each other at our local Pub. Is as the Enfeild/Elmsdale/9mile River area explodes with new people,as our continuing building boom goes on, more & more city attitude is evolving here, & we who are used to small town politeness really are noticing it.
I would tripped him while I was down
When I read the Headline, I thought it might be from Living in Halifax!
Love ya babe!
or from spending the weekend at Menz bar….
You can have 40 years of feminisn, you can have “The Handmaid’s Tale” or you can have manners, but you can only have one. OW!, Sonovabitchova just whaled the shit out of my left shoulder. Thanks, Gloria Steinhem, thanks a fuckin’ lot.
i am suspicious that it was a male to female response…the guy was probably a fuckhead and would have stepped over you even if your life’s blood was gushing down the sewer
I fell off a treadmill last summer at the gym and my ass bounced off the one beside it and then I bounced onto the concrete floor and pushed my tailbone in and the point of this story is, the doctor told me I had to take an inflatable donut around with me and sit on it on the bus and in class and stuff, but I refused to because damn.
I would have filmed it on an IPHONE and posted it on Youtube so everyone can enjoy your pain at there pleasure. Maybe it would end up on FailBlog……
Seriously, I’m sure you will live.
I’m pretty sure the OP is female because, really , men just don’t make a big issue about the lack of manners. We deal with by getting drunk, watching the director’s cut of “The Wild Bunch” and invading Irag. Am I right guys?
The Wild Bunch?!?!?
um…. no.
I watch ‘grandma’s boy’ or ‘next friday’ when getting inebriated in one fashion or other…..
though it used to be ‘Dumb and Dumber’ so I suppose it’s an improvement.
Must be a generational thing ZZZ, but its all good. The important thing is to deal with these issues, not bottle them up.
oh well,that’s the new york mentality for you.but fate has a way of evening things up.and no,i’m not talking about karma,or even kama sutra.
For what its worth, if the OB was a woman I would have asked if she was ok and offered to help her up (and not expect to fuck her). If it was a guy<30 I would have just kept going, if it was a guy 30-50 I would have given a 'hey are you ok?" and if it was a guy over 50 I would have offered to help him up. Crazy, I know....
my first post didn’t make sense if the non-helper pickerup guy actually stepped over the ob then it is just plain old fucktardness. oh and suck how about karma using the kama sutra as your guide
ditto to what dr. fever said why would go there these days:(
He could have at least thrown down some salt or sand for traction.
I like Cranky’s angle on this.
paingirl, the sutra isn’t that much fun, and is kinda stupid in respect to the purty pictures hings in there. i really liked the ones where all the good parts were halfway up the belly. here’s an interesting visual for you all. what if, say all our sex parts, were on our foreheads. just picture that in your mind for a minute. tampon strings hanging down over a chick’s nose. plan ahead, to get some head sex today, yuk, yuk.
…life sucks…
gulp
I know it’s already been done here, but let me give it a go anyway:
Hey OP, you’re not the only one with a sore bum posting here.
And yeah, guys always have to worry about being accused of being a perv by women nowadays. Oftentimes, it’s best to just keep minding your own business. Not that I do.
OP, if you were a hottie, I promise I would have offered to help you up, and sorry if my hand might have accidently slipped where my eyes were accidently looking.
haha…..two shout outs in so many days….good to know my reputation is out there….love you too, ML <3
Another good reason why I refuse to live in Halifax. That and idiot drivers who graze ya while you’re walking through a crosswalk with yellow lights blazing.
The guy must have been a douchebag. That’s just plain inconsiderate!