Somehow I don't understand people.

[SeaCat]

Now I am no fashion Guru, nor am I Miss Molly talking about etiquette. I enjoy nudism and encourage it, hell I just can't wrap my mind around the concept of Public Indecency. I am also one who understands the need to be connected with the use of Cell Phones, I myself carry one. Yet there are times and places.

I can't understand showing up in a patients room and pushing past that patients friends and family to stand next to the bed, wll while yapping on ones Cell Phone.

Nor can I understand walking into a patients Hospice Room and pushing past the same friends and family members to hold a one minute prayer vigil, at the end of which you tell the patient that it is time for them to let go. Nor can I understand these same people showing up in the patients room wearing clothing more suitable for the nightclubs, (Camel Toe Pants, Micro Mini's, Painted on T-shirts and wrap around blouses sans bras.) Especially when the patient is a member of the Church and more than a little conservative.

Nor can I imagine walking into the room of a person who is dieing and telling that persons friends, (Friends that have been there to transport her to and from her doctors visits, have been there to buy her groceries and make her meals, have been there to walk her dog when she was unable, have driven three hours each way to pick up and transport her parents to and from the hospital and have been there to care for her in the hospital and at home for the past month and a half.) that they are not welcome there because they haven't been true friends to her.

Somehow I guess I just don't understand people as much as I enjoy watching and living among them. Soon this too will pass and life will go back to abnormal.

Cat

 

[JamesSD]

Ooof. I'm sure you often see people at their very best and very worst. Sickness in a loved one inspries a wide range of behaviors, many of which are selfish and rude to those around them.

Talking on the phone while visiting someone, sick or otherwise, is just rude.

 

[Handley_Page]

Ooof. I'm sure you often see people at their very best and very worst. Sickness in a loved one inspries a wide range of behaviors, many of which are selfish and rude to those around them.

Talking on the phone while visiting someone, sick or otherwise, is just rude.

The use of cell phones in English hospitals is usually Banned ( the official excuse is interference with critical equipment; personally I reckon that's just tosh, but it serves as an excuse to limit the rudeness.)

 

[jomar]

Well, all I know is people get weird around weddings and funerals.

 

[Handley_Page]

Somehow I guess I just don't understand people as much as I enjoy watching and living among them. Soon this too will pass and life will go back to abnormal.

Cat

You just joined the rest of us, I think.
Even watching them (take a good long look at a Car Park sometime) is fun.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

People get weird around anything that makes them uncomfortable. But all the major life events are the usual suspects.

When I was 30 I had a buddy who was 78. I enjoyed the old man's company and we had some good times hanging out. Plus I was able to assist him with the heavy-lifting chores and some of his driving. But he got sick and had to go in the hospital. I went to the hospital to visit, and his daughters ran me off, insisting the occasion was family only.