{"id":33,"date":"1999-11-17T12:00:31","date_gmt":"1999-11-17T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/1999\/11\/17\/show-some-damn-courtesy\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T12:14:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T20:14:16","slug":"show-some-damn-courtesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/1999\/11\/17\/show-some-damn-courtesy\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Some Damn Courtesy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What the hell is wrong with people?<\/em> I&#8217;m feeling down on humanity in general at the moment, and here&#8217;s why. There is one simple thing that I do for the benefit of others, and I expect others to do for me. This is it:<\/p>\n<h3>Do what you said you were going to do, or let me know there&#8217;s been a change.<\/h3>\n<p>For example, if you say you&#8217;re going to meet me somewhere, MEET ME THERE. If you decide not to come, or if you&#8217;ll be significantly late*, call and let me know. How simple is that? I really don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s too much to expect.<\/p>\n<p>But, apparently, it is. And this can ruin my enjoyment of hanging out with people because now they seem so flaky that they can&#8217;t follow one basic principle of human interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Is this something old-fashioned? Some quaint rule of etiquette that has fallen out of fashion? Am I naive to expect that simple consideration for others is no longer important?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even asking that people always follow through on their word! (Something I constantly try to do, but nevermind.) All I&#8217;m asking is that I get notified of a change, so I&#8217;m not left hanging, expecting something that&#8217;s not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"-1\">* I don&#8217;t mind if someone is 5-10 minutes late; I am usually that late myself. But when the lateness creeps into the 20+ minute zone, a call should be made. <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell is wrong with people? I&#8217;m feeling down on humanity in general at the moment, and here&#8217;s why. There is one simple thing that I do for the benefit of others, and I expect others to do for me. This is it: Do what you said you were going to do, or let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}