etiquette question

[KimberlyH]

I grew up in Los Angeles County and have been part of and seen funeral processions on many occasions, so it can''t be distinguished by urban/rural living.

As for your post LK, that''s just plain strange.

 

[Kay]

Date: 11/20/2006 7:53:28 PM
Author: TCBug
I was standing in line at the grocery check out in Westport, CT 12 years ago (when we lived here before the recent move back) and a little old lady BASHED her cart into mine, making mine SKID out of a very long line. She smiled (sneereed?) at me and took my place. She kinda looked like my grandma. So, I simply accepted the place in lin BEHIND her that the nice man IN BACK OF ME offered. Should I have throttled her instead?

Maybe. I would have been tempted to say something like "Excuse me, I might have let you in in front of me if you had asked politely, but I have no intention of rewarding your bad behaviour." The tricky part would have been physically moving back into the line. You did the more gracious thing, but I would have been sorely tempted not to.