Randomly mean people
By blog on Apr. 24, 2009.
Something I have always enjoyed about Seinfeld, is the disproportionate amount of randomly mean people. I love it! I think it is because you can sit back and laugh heartily at the absurdly rude actions of these strangers, largely in part because I don’t have to deal with these people.
You see, it is because I have encountered people in real life that are as unpredictable and as rude as those memorable characters like George’s father, Elaine’s flatmate, and the old guy constantly calling Jerry and idiot, that I can fully appreciate the humor laden, yet strangely real, depiction of these people. It sometimes seems that you can’t walk down the street without some unsavory looking character uttering something almost incomprehensible, but most likely offensive judging by the look on their face, in your general direction.
I don’t understand why people feel the need to rude, I mean, I am a ranter, a person who finds things really annoying that shouldn’t be really annoying, and yet, I would never consider being as rude as some of the schlubs you encounter. I have been walking across the road and have had profanities yelled at me by someone in their car, because of the contents of my shopping bags… what’s with that?
Sometimes I wonder if there is just something wrong with a large proportion of the population, I wonder why these people lack common courtesy. You see it come out in particular situations too! Like waiting for a taxi. People can get really rude and really mean whilst waiting for a taxi. I have been waiting at a taxi rank, and have seen young people hurry forward to get the cab that just arrived, when they can clearly see that a little old person was the next in line. And then those little old people will look over at you, with a pleasant smile on their face, as if to say it’s all fine with them… I would be rather angry, I have to say, but that’s no surprise now is it.
Another instance of absurdly high rates of rude people is in upmarket retail stores. You walk into this place and they have this look as if you say, ‘You, scum, should not be here’, and even if you do purchase something, they still look at you as if you shouldn’t be there.
Rude people seem to be everywhere, you can’t get away from them. There are websites devoted to them! But I think the rest of us, non-rude people, can all have a good laugh at those strange rude people.
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