What Are You Teaching Your Children?
TLC’s been running these “Life’s Lessons” commercials lately that are kind of funny and cute. People get little collectible trophy/figurines of horrible life mistake moments like a a husband who won’t turn the tv off while his wife is trying to neck or a woman yelling at someone and a little girl mimicing her and on and on. I like the one where the little girl is on the phone gossiping and telling whoever is on the other line about someone who has a new man every Friday and a new car in her driveway every Friday and who might as well be running a Bed & Breakfast and her mother is just staring at her.
Anyway, I thought about TLC’s “Life’s Lessons” yesterday afternoon when I was waiting in line in the parking lot at the Post Office. You know what I mean, right? I mean I was still in my car, waiting for one of those limited parking spots at the Post Office so I could go in and mail my six packages. There was a line of cars behind me and we had all been waiting patiently for our turn.
This woman in a relatively shiny new SUV packed full of hoodlum kids pulled next to me in the lane reserved for folks just driving through to the post office box drop off. Her eyes meets mine and then she pulls forward and cuts in line in front of me and takes the spot of the car that is just pulling out despite the loudness of my horn.
Now she wasn’t in a hurry because she took her time getting out of her spiffy SUV. There couldn’t have been some sort of postal emergency that made her need for that parking spot more important than mine. She saw me. She saw the line. She just didn’t feel it applied to her.
And as annoyed as I was at being forced to wait after having already waited my turn, what bothered me was what she was teaching those children in the SUV. She certainly wasn’t teaching them to respect other people or common courtesy. She wasn’t teaching them that good things come to those who wait.
She was teaching them to take what they want when they want it and people wonder where our kids learn to be spoiled brats who think society owes them.
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