Westerners becoming Korean
There I am, standing by the subway door waiting for it to open. As the train approaches a foreign couple, say late 20s, walk up as well. I spy an end seat that has 3 spots open. Now everyone wants the end seat to have one less person sitting beside them so as I am technically closer to it, I should get it just fine. But wait….he pulls a Korean. By that I mean he starts pushing his way onto the train before everyone is off.
In a big city it seems the manners are tossed aside for the sake of a “me first” attitude. So here people push, shove, run just so they get there before anyone else.
So back to the seating.
As buddy rushes in he grabs the obvious end seat. His girlfriend whispers “good job” as if me being 12″ inches away won’t hear her.
I don’t buy the excuse that living in a big city is reason to ignore common decency. So let them be rude. It only hurts them. As for me, I’ll take comfort that Karma is a bitch amd they’ll wonder why bad things happen to them.
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January 28th, 2012 at 10:59 pm
your way of using karma only means that someone will bring it back on you for some bullshit idiocy you yourself did. Only apply Karma to your own shit, it means nothing to ascribe it to some other ijit.
January 29th, 2012 at 8:48 am
Not true. In my perspective, I am only referring to their own Karma and nothing I send out or bring back to myself. It is a universal rule that a person affects the world around them and how they do so is reflected back in their lives. So long as you place your ego above another, another will place their above yours because that is your belief. (I, of course, am using the term ‘your’ in a broader sense and not anyone in particular)