The Self Defeating Crab Culture Environment

Petpeeve?  Here is a a thought.  There are people in this world that are takers, and then there are those that pretend they are not takers, and then there are those that pretend to be giving, counting for their returns on their invesment, and then there ar those; the rarest of them all that truly give all that they can bare to give. The true giver, bares all critism, ...the why why why questions of the ignorant specie takers.

Some years ago, Jill and Jan donated a health center in a little town... a gesture of goodwill to the community.  The jealous cousins wanted the funds to be for them. Thus, condemning Jill for all time.  Lesson learned?  Even if blood is said to be thicker than water, the evil that is present in a crab culture environment eats itself away into a self defeating taker.

Around the same time Jill sent a box of books for a library reading center.  Lesson learned, the administrator kept half of the boxes for his children. Is giving the root of all evil? Do you have a story?

Etiquette or Lack of Consideration

It has been defined that etiquette are practices and forms prescribed by social convention or by authority.

Lack of consideration as in lack of awareness or common courtesy toward another would fall under wanting of etiquette.  Here is what I heard:

“I stood in line yesterday at a…office, and this person cuts in front of me as if it was ok.  He continued to stand in line.  I said, “excuse me, I was here before you.”  He looked at me, did not bother to say sorry, or even a comment at all. He went right behind me. It was the same with the 6 other persons I ran into that day standing in line. When I was done, I got in a taxi, and he turns off the meter, and says Ill just charge you this amount.  Then I got to thinking, he probably did that because if he turned off the meter, he would not have to disclose his route to his boss!”

That was just one office, and one taxi cab. Imagine…if by social convention, the environment is this way. How insane would that be?