Comments on: Parking Lot Pride

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:17:22 +0000

@Jeanie: Victim mentality has crept into our society and is a rapidly growing segment of it. It is just easier to get by believing that we just experience bad luck or things always happen to us. Sure, we all have bad luck and bad things happen, but it is up to us to deal with the situation and move forward. We can’t just wallow in self pity and bring others with us.

@Ann: Those are two very good points you have made. Building quality and also quality of individuals within the establishment are also markers for success. People utilize buildings as a success “show” and people also use their wardrobe to “talk” to people.

Some of what you have talked about represents a lack of something in the individual and also business. If they are not clean or friendly, that is a lack of respect. A lack of respect for their own self and also their place of work. I would definitely not eat at these places either. If they cannot respect their own person or establishment, do you want them cooking or serving you food? I think not.

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:56:50 +0000

I tend to look at the quality of the building not the cars at a eating establishment. If I don’t see a clean looking place, I don’t even want to try it. That includes the name. The chicken coup does not attract me. It may be a great place to eat, but I will probably never know it. When I do venture to go inside a new place, the next thing I look for is clean looking people who wait on you. or cook your food. And that means friendlyness also. Nothing I dislike more is a waitress who doesn’t care about whether you come back or not.

By: Jeanie

Jeanie — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:54:52 +0000

It stems from the oh so popular “I’m a victim” mentality that we so often see anymore in people.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:32:30 +0000

There are people who treat their own possessions with such a lack of respect that they do not value what other people have. These people have a much deeper issue to deal with, respect of self and property. As you say, sometimes, the snap judgment can be correct because of past experience and that is the hard part. Experience is how we build our stereotypes. A stereotype wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t data to support it right?

Anyway, I believe these people whose lack of self respect allows them to treat others in such a manner actually have “Parking Lot Pride” also. They view EVERYTHING around them as better than what they have and for that, you are flaunting your “success” over them and they are free to do as they wish without any ramification. They make their snap judgments also. Irrational as they may be, it is rational in their mind.

But yes, some bad people and their actions make it worse for a large amount of people. And with that, it takes a lot of people doing good things to make up for one bad thing.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:55:34 +0000

Its kinda funny that you would write an article about junky automobiles. Just last Friday I was waiting on Ann to pick up a few groceries and this lady, and I say lady very loosely, pulled in and parked right beside me in an old rusted out and beatup chevy cavalier. Which I don’t mind the old beatup cars, but this woman came out with her groceries in a shopping cart and parked it right up against my car, unloaded the cart and was pulling out to leave with the cart still against my car. I got out of my car and asked her why she would do that,and she told me that she didn’t leave the cart there,she had put her cart up on the other side away from my car. I told her that I had just sat in my car and watched her leave it there.

There was another guy there that saw what she had done,and he said that those kind of people don’t have any respect for anything or anyone. I hate to make judgments on other people but sometimes your gut feelings can steer you in the right direction. Don’t get me wrong, some really nice people drive old or beat up cars,so you can’t judge a book by its cover.Some people just buy what they can afford and that isn’t a bad thing at all. Very smart actually!!

Also these people have respect for other peoples property and feelings. Some of these bad apples make a bad impression on a lot of people.