Response to Comment on Courteous Behavior

I received a comment about the post which I wrote on Courteous Behavior.  Unfortunately, the comment was lost, and I can’t post it.  I can paraphrase it.  The comment was that I should just get over it!  In this comment, I recalled the parking lot situation which my daughter and I experienced.  If you haven’t read this earlier post, please do so you will understand what I’m saying.

It wasn’t the fact that we found a cart parked behind the car.  I see lots of people leave their carts loose in the parking lots and not in the specific areas designed to hold the carts.  I assume that some people may have an emergency, not be physically able to walk to the cart area, and some just don’t care and think that it doesn’t matter.  I am one of those people who do put their cart in the designed area.  What I got annoyed with in this situation was the fact that the man saw us arriving at the car and still proceeded to block our backing out of the parking space.  It  wasn’t an issue of his leaving his cart loose in the lot; it was that he left it so that it blocked a car from being able to move.  The other action that I was annoyed with was his total disregard for someone else’s property when he shoved the cart and let it go wherever.  If it had hit my daughter’s car, it would have done damage.  Respect for others just makes good sense, and we are all responsible for our actions.

I don’t think that I should have to “just get over this”.  What if everyone acted like this?  What if this had been your car,  and you weren’t able to keep the cart from slamming into your car?  How would you feel about that?  Would you deliberately block someone’s car in a lot because you didn’t care if you inconveniced them?  If we all acted like this man did and had such little respect for others and their property, what kind of society would we live in now?

Questions or comments are always appreciated.

Ginny Brown
The Etiquette School of Northeast Georgia
Hoschton, Georgia (Hamilton Mill area, Dacula, GA)
Email Ginny Brown
678-889-4814 office
770-296-4159 cell

http://etiquette-blog.com