why put other people down?

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  • Booksandbeaches
    Booksandbeaches Posts: 1,791 Member
    That would make my blood boil and I KNOW I would have said something out loud to the jerk. I have a child with a learning disability/special needs. I guess I'm lucky that I don't see these kinds of situations where I live. People are pretty compassionate and accepting of special needs.

    There's nothing fun about making fun of people who have special needs.
  • Vincentsz
    Vincentsz Posts: 407 Member
    "The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke.

    Agreed. Did you speak up to the jerk?

    I'm not the OP, But I assure you, If I were there, I would have kicked his *kitten*!
  • LetsMakeupXtina
    LetsMakeupXtina Posts: 627 Member
    DID YOU SAY SOMETHING?
    this kind of *kitten* gets my blood boiling, not only because it is sad & pathetic but because I have a mentally handicapped sister, and I have heard people say things under their breath and stare at her... I'm a very nice person, but i become a raging b*tch when that happens. and i do call them out. one time i was picking up medicine for my sister at the pharmacy, and these two old ladies were staring, then one of them said "glad thats not my life!" and they both started laughing. better believe i went up to them, got pretty close to their face, stared at them and called them out on their BS. i have no tolerance for that crap. if you didn't say something, you should have. IMO.
  • lawandfitness
    lawandfitness Posts: 1,257 Member
    This is so wrong on so many levels.... I don't understand why people take their crap out on strangers.....

    I hate reading things like this, but the truth is there are so many people like the customer in this story in the world that it is going to happen repeatedly until someone intervenes. Luckily the manager did in this situation...

    To add my own story,

    These past few days in Canada we have been hit with a winter storm, it’s windy, cold and snowy...
    Yesterday my dad pulled up at the bank and when he got out of his car he noticed a $20 bill on the ground, he went to pick it up and it took off in the wind. As he chased it down, he noticed 2 more $20 bills. About 5 feet away were 2 - $50 bills. He looked around to see where the money was coming from and he noticed an old man standing in front of the bank with 1 $20 bill left in his hand looking shocked and confused. My dad approached him and asked if he was ok and if he needed assistance and the man told him he didn't know what just happened to his money. My dad collected all the money he saw in sight and returned it to the man. The man then noticed a teen girl with 2-$50 bills in her hand and asked for them back. The girl refused trying to say it was hers (even though she came out of the coffee shop next door not the bank) until my dad intervened and asked her to return the money..... It made me sad to hear that some people have no compassion.
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
    “A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person”


    ^^^THIS^^^ It is always wise to inspect the way a potential partner (business, marital or otherwise) treats others. If that person mistreats others--especially strangers---it is wise to reject a partnership with such a person. If you go ahead and form a partnership, expect that you will eventually get that kind of treatment yourself.
  • one15ts
    one15ts Posts: 91
    i didn't want to talk about what i did as i didn't want this to turn into a "good on you" thread. i've known firsthand what it's like to have no one stand up for me, when i was defenseless but not as defenseless as this employee. she was just so nice and was a real trooper. if that happened to me, i would not have been as strong as she was. i just could not understand the guy's logic. not only was he being cruel to someone with a disability, but this person was being nice and respectful towards him. i don't understand why people have to vent out their unhappiness and insecurities this way. there should be more productive ways to get by in life without hurting others.
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
    i didn't want to talk about what i did as i didn't want this to turn into a "good on you" thread. i've known firsthand what it's like to have no one stand up for me, when i was defenseless but not as defenseless as this employee. she was just so nice and was a real trooper. if that happened to me, i would not have been as strong as she was. i just could not understand the guy's logic. not only was he being cruel to someone with a disability, but this person was being nice and respectful towards him. i don't understand why people have to vent out their unhappiness and insecurities this way. there should be more productive ways to get by in life without hurting others.

    Yeah, my grandmother used to say that some people were just "...full of the green meanies..." and that it was best to avoid such folk but if we saw them abusing another person, we should speak up. Of course, that is to invite the abusive person to abuse you as well but that comes with the territory of standing for what's right.

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