Turnabout is fair play.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 4 comments link this postThe past three weekends (this one included) I've been in another medical study. It was a small study, and so I had hoped I would not have to deal with the issues of being in a large group and dealing with rude personalities of other women in the women's sleeping area. Past experiences included a woman of incredible snoring capabilities, the annoying "light-flipper-on-ers" and the also annoying "lights-off-during-the-day" women who basically slept an entire weekend. No, I had hoped for good things.
Alas, it was not to be.
After three weekends of being in a small room that included two girls who had annoying ringtones on their cell phones, which went off about every four minutes, which they answered and talked and giggled loudly on, which often was in the late evening when lights were supposed to be off and it was readily apparent that some of use were trying to sleep, I felt no guilt this morning for getting up early with the rest of the women, making lots of noise packing up, and eventually flipping the light on much earlier than scheduled, waking up these two miscreants.
I took pleasure in their light-pained eyes and groggy "whas goin' on wha time's it?" reaction.
I'm guessing their age to be about 18 or 19. Evidently they didn't have a finely developed sense of what is called "common courtesy." Does anyone, anymore? Seriously.
In the middle of the day, when I and other women would be reading books or sitting on our beds watching movies or writing, these two decided it was time to sleep and would flip the lights out. Having slept the full day, they would then want to stay up late at night, with the lights on. Talking. Giggling. Playing with cell phones and MP3 players and talking about people. While those around them were obviously trying to sleep.
There is a common room with the lights on where this should have taken place. Not in the sleeping area at 11:30 p.m.
Multiple Choice Summary:
a) Anyone with an Avril Lavigne ringtone should be shot.
b) People are annoying.
c) Common courtesy is dying out in the youth of today.
d) There are few things as annoying as a couple of young girls who only know how to use the word "like."
e) There are few things as annoying as a couple of young girls.
After three weekends with these two, I'm going with choice "a." It seems more proactive.
Labels: my life
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 7/01/2007 08:51:00 AM
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4 Comments:
All of the above.
By 
Henry (Rick) Frueh, at
1/7/07 13:26
Courtesy is disappearing. Probably because parenting is disappearing. Buying your kid a cell phone or plopping him in front of a Sony Play Station does not constitute parenting.
I'm often shocked at how my nephew talks to his mother. I never could've talked that way to my folks. They raised me. They didn't just let me run wild and shoot off my mouth.
These kids are in for a rude awakening when they go looking for jobs and find out that the universe was not created solely to satiate their desires.
By 
, at
1/7/07 18:04
Well, I donno. I'm 41 years old, and when I was 18 or 19, plenty of my peers were like that. And we heard lectures about today's youth having no respect, etc. And every other word coming out of our mouths was "like" or "I'm all, He's all."
Perhaps because most of my teens were spent in Southern California and the rest of the country is finally catching up with the trends we set.
By David Cho, at
1/7/07 20:15
Oh, to be a trendsetter.
By Julie, at
1/7/07 21:35
