Behaving Badly in Sebastopol

[lindasw]

..To the Arrogant, Entitled, Self-Righteous and Mean Spirited Attackers among us....

...Particularly those regularly posing as 'community activists', while thinking nothing of treating other humans badly..
Really?

Got crankiness?
Please stay home...

Having a bad day? Menopausal/Manopausal? Thinking that the world revolves around you and that with a simple acting out like a four-year old, your problems and issues will be solved or resolved? We all have bad days...BUT

Take it to the Koch Brothers, your local government or D.C., where your righteous anger belongs. Be a mouthy old activist--as I like to describe myself--and give ém hell. Try calling a 911 to your therapist, take an anger management class, or get back on your meds..

The other day, I had the [non] privilege to watch in horror as one of our very own ---alleged, self-defined---community activists--. let loose inside of a place of business over a scent issue, embarrassing the trapped-behind-the-counter clerk (who, in this person's eyes, was supposed to take the repeatedly heaped on abuse with no response or reaction...) and the rest of the people in the store. This, while acting out and behaving in the worst possible fashion to another human being. It was both appalling and uncalled for--as if this type of unwarranted behavior is EVER called for---

I have plenty of friends who live in this town who have scent issues---real and true issues that sicken them and render them unable to breathe. And they deal with it...at adults, as humans with one modicum of consciousness, they have had to figure out how to maneuver through this world of hair products, dryer sheets, parisan perfumery, Grandma's rosewater and even lightly scented organics...its a real and true issue....if its somewhere they frequent, they speak to management, privately, discreetly, instead of this sort of nonsense. One never is taken seriously or invited back to the party when they show this side, now are they? The word "crazy"comes to mind and one inevitably undermines their future credibility as a rational human being...I have behaved badly with my own anger on occasion, raging into cyberspace and have learned some hard and difficult lessons about what really matters...but in public, to an undeserving innocent? That takes anger to a whole other level...

When my kids were little, I taught them to always treat people the way they wanted to be treated. It is a good lesson for us all to remember---especially when we need to be reminded to get a grip...the world, unfortunately, does not revolve around us and our each and every whim or proclivity......

Shame on you....