Inconsiderate people example #1: I came home from work to find one of my pumpkins missing from the porch. Who would steal a pumpkin, and even so, why not steal both of them? At least they were gracious enough to leave the large pumpkin which I plan to carve this weekend. But still. Pumpkins are NOT expensive. I bought a large pumkin, a medium one, a baby one, and a baby gourd from a pumpkin patch for less than $5.

Inconsiderate people example #2: I’ve been getting a flurry of spam comments on this website, which is why the comments now have to be moderated before they are posted. What is the point of spam? Why waste your time creating it, and why waste my time dealing with it? What do people get out of frustrating other people?!

Inconsiderate people example #3: I moved to a new cube on Tuesday, and in my cube is a large whiteboard where I write up all my current projects and their status. Along with that, I wrote a Bible verse and my favorite Thoreau quote (which is the title of this blog). When I went into work on the second day of being in that cube, I noticed that someone had wiped out a line right down the center of the quote (I wrote the quote vertical, with each word on top of another). I was totally surprised since none of my writings had ever been messed with at my old cube. And who would even do that? I suspected it was one of the cleaning crew, since none of my co-workers around the cube would have done it. So I rewrote the quote and dismissed the incident.

The following day, I went back to work–and someone had messed up the quote AGAIN! I was thoroughly peeved. This is World Vision, guys! I rewrote the quote, and before I went home that night, also wrote a little message for this inconsiderate person: “Please stop messing with this quote. Thanks!” Of course I had to be a little nice, but what I wanted to really write was: “Quit being a jerk and leave my whiteboard alone!” But, of course, I didn’t.

UPDATE: Monday morning, my quote was messed up AGAIN! I didn’t leave a note for the culprit on Friday since I assumed they got the message, but apparently they didn’t! Time to set up some surveillance cameras!

Inconsiderate people example #4: Yesterday on the way back from work, we were sitting at a red light behind a car in which two guys were sitting. They were obviously being hoodlums, moving around in the car, opening their doors, etc. They were still fooling around when the light turned green, so Matt honked, and they moved on. We stayed behind them until they turned right to take a shortcut. We continued on and turned right half a block later. We ended up in a lane to turn left, and to my right, that car had emerged from their shortcut and was in the far right lane. The light turned green, and Matt started turning left when that car cut us off and turned left! If you’re going to turn left, that’s what the LEFT TURN lane is for. If I were a potty mouth, I would have started spewing out obscenities right then and there, accented with a fist shaken in their direction. But that’s not me, so I just yelled out, “What the heck! What are they trying to do?!” Gggrrr…my co-worker says when she sees people doing stupid things on the road, she just pretends they have a special permit to act stupid, and it helps her to feel better.