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You know who you are.
You call people, and the moment they answer, you say “Hey man, how’s it goin’?”
That’s presumptuous isn’t it? Who are you?
I know, you assume everyone you call knows who you are, and should by the sound of your voice combined with manifest destiny, know exactly who’s calling.
But they don’t always. You rude, arrogant little snot-nose.
Listen. When I was growing up in the ‘70s, the first thing you did was identify yourself to the person you were calling. It was polite, the right thing to do. If you didn’t identify yourself the moment someone answered the phone, you were immediately thought of as an ill-mannered, maybe even criminal person, and promptly got hung up on.
Nowadays, young people, and older ones too, apparently just don’t seem to care. Why is that?
Did your parents raise you in a barn like an animal? Have you lost all sense of propriety you little jackass? Or did you ever have any?
Do you think you deserve special recognition? Are you assuming too much? I think so.
Look, you want respect? Sure you do, everyone does. A good place to start towards that goal is manners. It is bad manners to call anyone and not identify yourself out of courtesy. If you call anyone on the phone, identify yourself first, right off the bat.
When you do not identify yourself, think you deserve special consideration and assume you are known, or think you will get away with not doing so, well, seek the word above starting with ‘j’.
And no, I’m not sorry.
These days many people probably think, “Well, everyone’s got caller ID, so I don’t need to identify myself.” This is no excuse, of course. But it would explain why the problem is so prevalent today. Thoughts?
Not everyone has a caller id, nor a computer. True. I think the problem is prevalent because of poor parenting and an erosion of morality within the family itself. When children are raised ungodly, they become ungodly parents, who raise rude little ungodly jackasses.
Part of the world revolves around me mentality! Seems manners are not taught or used
anymore. Its very sad!
wow, that didn’t sound bitter at all…
I’m so unassuming, I have to identify myself to my wife of almost 40 years with every call. And she still says..”who?”
LOL!
Well, you did say it was a rant.
I’m thinking that in my “older age”, I hate talking on the telephone. It never seems to be “Good news”, but rather harrassment of some kind or other. I did find it useful when I was many years younger, to give the Gospel of Christ to those random, late night “perverted callers” who love to prey upon and shock women. For some reason, THEY would hang up immediately and NEVER call back! It never failed to repulse them.
Everyone I call does indeed have caller ID. In fact, I don’t ever call anyone who doesn’t have a cell phone. I don’t know anyone with a landline anymore.