Since when is it the norm to leave notes on your neighbors doors rather than simply knocking and talking to them? Since when is it okay to call the cops when a family member or friend is parked legally on the side of the road rather than just walking up and asking? What happened to our society to make us so afraid of a simple conversation with our neighbors? Is it cell phones? Video games? Television? I honestly couldn't tell you. What I do know is that this is just another sign to show us just how troubled our society is. Neighbors live next to each other for years and yet one still can't speak to the other without fear of confrontation. Are there no more brave citizens in our society? Well neighbor, this is my reply to you:
Dear passive aggressive neighbors who continuously leave notes on my car and call the cops when my family is parked on the side of the road from lack of driveway space. Please stop. It is incredibly annoying to find notes on my car asking me to clean the driveway when you could have just knocked and asked. I apologies it has been messy, but I have been ALONE with twins for almost a month now so it makes it kind of hard to get to things like yard work. Which I would have nicely explained if you had simply knocked and asked. I did do most of it today, and I apologies that I was not able to finish but once again I have TWINS so I was not able to start until very late in the day. I will try to finish tomorrow. However, in the future rather than calling the cops when you need one of my friends or family members car moved or leaving a note when you need me to do something JUST ASK. While my appearance may deceive you I am actually not an evil hobgoblin that will eat you up the moment you knock on my door. I can actually be quite nice, but calling the cops and leaving little passive aggressive notes is kind of my pet peeve so it is where I draw the line. Next time I won't be so nice and will simply wait for you to come and talk to me yourself because I find these things to be incredibly rude and impolite. I would have loved to tell you all of this myself but you did not even sign your name so instead I am going to just kind of rant on my blog.
-Your neighbor
Is there anyone out there that still thinks that things like manners are important? I feel as if our society is degrading into some kind of horrible Lord of the Flies society. A society run by children in grown up clothes. As a parent, I think it is my job to teach my kids manners. Call me old fashioned but I actually think they are important.
I find it unfortunate that my neighbors are only the tip of the iceberg to what is wrong with society. It is not only that each of our generations has become increasingly less social, it is everything else too. Such as politics. No longer are we concerned with the well being of our nation, we are simply on teams. It is Democrats, Republicans and liberals. Pick one and oppose the rest. I find it incredibly sad that we are no longer Americans, we are Democrats, Republicans or Liberals. Each party blaming the next for our countries problems, each fight a war with one another that is hiding in plain sight.
The other day a nice young Republican man came to our door which I answered nicely and tried to listen to what he had to say before my husband came and slammed the door on his face. "I have read on the politician he represents and I do not agree with anything he has to offer," he said. Since when is it okay to slam the door on someone simply because you have a difference in opinion? This is not the only time I have observed such behavior. Have you ever hung up on a telemarketer? I feel this is the same thing. These are people who are simply trying to do their jobs and because they have a different opinion than your own or you don't want what they are selling you slam the door on their face or hang up on them. Are our lives so busy that we cannot simply let these poor people do their job without being just another person who slammed the door on them? Have we truly degraded so much that a difference of opinion or a messy driveway can become yet another excuse to throw our manners out the window?
I am not in anyway advising people to stop fighting for what they believe in, I am however saying that there is a better way to go about it. Rather than rudely slamming the door on someone who is obviously of a different opinion than your own why not simply wait for him to be finished talking, state that you are thankful for his time, and tell him that you are of a difference in opinion and then kindly tell him why before kindly excusing yourself. Yes, I am well aware that sometimes someone's opinion is down right offensive and that your opinion may even offend them just as theirs offends you. But you don't have to vocalize it in such a rude manner. I am not saying that you will change his mind. In fact, you probably won't. What you will do is set an example for you kids on how to act with tact. The world is made of different opinions, it's the degrading state of society that is ruining us.
Dear passive aggressive neighbors who continuously leave notes on my car and call the cops when my family is parked on the side of the road from lack of driveway space. Please stop. It is incredibly annoying to find notes on my car asking me to clean the driveway when you could have just knocked and asked. I apologies it has been messy, but I have been ALONE with twins for almost a month now so it makes it kind of hard to get to things like yard work. Which I would have nicely explained if you had simply knocked and asked. I did do most of it today, and I apologies that I was not able to finish but once again I have TWINS so I was not able to start until very late in the day. I will try to finish tomorrow. However, in the future rather than calling the cops when you need one of my friends or family members car moved or leaving a note when you need me to do something JUST ASK. While my appearance may deceive you I am actually not an evil hobgoblin that will eat you up the moment you knock on my door. I can actually be quite nice, but calling the cops and leaving little passive aggressive notes is kind of my pet peeve so it is where I draw the line. Next time I won't be so nice and will simply wait for you to come and talk to me yourself because I find these things to be incredibly rude and impolite. I would have loved to tell you all of this myself but you did not even sign your name so instead I am going to just kind of rant on my blog.
-Your neighbor
Is there anyone out there that still thinks that things like manners are important? I feel as if our society is degrading into some kind of horrible Lord of the Flies society. A society run by children in grown up clothes. As a parent, I think it is my job to teach my kids manners. Call me old fashioned but I actually think they are important.
I find it unfortunate that my neighbors are only the tip of the iceberg to what is wrong with society. It is not only that each of our generations has become increasingly less social, it is everything else too. Such as politics. No longer are we concerned with the well being of our nation, we are simply on teams. It is Democrats, Republicans and liberals. Pick one and oppose the rest. I find it incredibly sad that we are no longer Americans, we are Democrats, Republicans or Liberals. Each party blaming the next for our countries problems, each fight a war with one another that is hiding in plain sight.
The other day a nice young Republican man came to our door which I answered nicely and tried to listen to what he had to say before my husband came and slammed the door on his face. "I have read on the politician he represents and I do not agree with anything he has to offer," he said. Since when is it okay to slam the door on someone simply because you have a difference in opinion? This is not the only time I have observed such behavior. Have you ever hung up on a telemarketer? I feel this is the same thing. These are people who are simply trying to do their jobs and because they have a different opinion than your own or you don't want what they are selling you slam the door on their face or hang up on them. Are our lives so busy that we cannot simply let these poor people do their job without being just another person who slammed the door on them? Have we truly degraded so much that a difference of opinion or a messy driveway can become yet another excuse to throw our manners out the window?
I am not in anyway advising people to stop fighting for what they believe in, I am however saying that there is a better way to go about it. Rather than rudely slamming the door on someone who is obviously of a different opinion than your own why not simply wait for him to be finished talking, state that you are thankful for his time, and tell him that you are of a difference in opinion and then kindly tell him why before kindly excusing yourself. Yes, I am well aware that sometimes someone's opinion is down right offensive and that your opinion may even offend them just as theirs offends you. But you don't have to vocalize it in such a rude manner. I am not saying that you will change his mind. In fact, you probably won't. What you will do is set an example for you kids on how to act with tact. The world is made of different opinions, it's the degrading state of society that is ruining us.