Another kind of Hunger Game

So, you just got a date, or are going on another, or simply feel like going somewhere impressive with your friends. You pull up to the establishment, join the throng of people trailing along the side-walk and settle yourself in to wait for the next hour or so to get in. You see a camera scanning the lines, and you either realize that your shoe is undone, or that you haven't seen your mother recently and should therefore pretend your shoe is undone, and just as you get enough space to duck down and fix the issue, someone steps in.

I think that at some point in everyone's life, we will run into a person like this. They can't wait, they see a space, or they simply see no reason as to why they should not just slide into the space you left before you. And unless we get our wits together enough to throw our irate astonishment into their ears, then we will never know what strange logic entered their mind and encouraged them to step in.

Some have the audacity to say they saw you leaving a space for them, and so they took it. Who believes that? I've left a space for a stranger sometimes, but they either had my respect and the respect of those behind me, or there was no-one behind me. If Leonard Nimoy joins the line at McPuke's, then sure I'll give him space. But some guy who works at the offices of Apple and decides that since he met Steve Jobs and worked with him for a couple hours he deserves those few inches, not happening. There is just no way.

If you haven't eaten in a week, and look the part, then maybe you'll earn my sympathy. Hopefully my experience with the dramatic arts and minimal knowledge of costume and make-up will prevent con artists from nabbing that meal ahead of me, or those Chris de Burgh tickets that I was going to buy my mom for her birthday.

I really don't get why people need to cut in front. You won't get the tickets much faster, or your meal soon, and the stop sign is there, so you can't beat me around the corne---nevermind. Ignoring the stop sign will get you around that corner faster.

But do the bonuses really give you that much of an edge on the rest of us? Why do we need to rush? There's not logic thought process behind it, it's a charge of lemmings, no more.

So...is there logic behind it? Or do we do it for the rush? So many people want to be busy, they have to be busy, to be able to say they are busy. Since we don't have to all deal with crummy weather affecting our crops, then we need an excuse to get out of something, or a way to make it look like we appreciate someone by taking time out of being "busy" to be with them.

If that is the case, then add it to the list of things wrong with society.

I strongly dislike people cutting in line, but I rarely do anything about it. Is that because Canadian society has lost so much of it's strength that we can't even challenge someone on what is considered rude on an international level? I would hate to find that to be the case. If someone has bad manners, correct them. Don't tear their head off, obviously, you don't want to give them reason to hate you. However, there is nothing wrong with quietly telling them that it was rude, and they would have your gratitude if they would take their place at the back of the line. It's not that you think yourself better than them, just that you happened to be here first, and while that is a horrible argument from Grade 1 to Grade 8, it works from Grade 9 and onward.