How rude.

I just don't understand what is going on in the world today. What has happened to manners? Where has the respect for our fellow man disapeared off to?

This afternoon at work, I was manning the office phones while everyone else ate lunch. This is for two reasons, 1. I tend to get hungry a good hour earlier then everyone else and 2. they all order out lunch and I, being the poverty-stricken kind of newlywed that I am, brown bag it every day. I don't mind answering the phones, usually, but I do wish that it didn't seem that everyone just counted on me to sit by myself and answer the phones while they enjoyed their takeout. Not to mention, their lunches seem to be getting longer and longer every day(something of which I am slightly embarassed to admit to you that I have been tracking)...

Anyhow, that's neither here nor there and completely not the point of this blog entry...

Back to my irritation with the general lack of politeness in modern day society. I recieved a phone call from a gentleman who wished to make a payment on his account. Fine. I asked for his credit card information and as I was writing it down, I couldn't help but notice that his voice was getting more and more muffled. Then I heard the unmistakeable sound of trickling water. I tried to ignore the sound... I mean, for all I knew, he was walking past a water fountain or something. Then the sound got louder... o-kay. Perhaps a waterfall, instead. Maybe he's calling me from Niagra Falls!

Then the flush came.

Ugh, I feel dirty just thinking about it. A man, as a matter of speaking, "took me to the bathroom" with him! I mean, really! Was he truely that busy? Can you honestly tell me that he was that focused on multi tasking?

How rude.