rules by which all must abide. or the world just might collapse and it will be all your fault.
In bible study last night, we had a good laugh about the behavioral rules that we create to make sense of the world. These sorts of rules tend to become unspoken and ridiculously cumbersome expectations for the behavior of others. Frankly, there's a humorous amount of absurdity in the rules we create for others.
Here are a few that I have observed in myself or that friends have shared as theirs:
- Don't cut me off on the highway. Or cruise in the left lane. Because that is dangerous. And I will ride up on your big booty bumper like a smooth criminal until you stop. Jerk.
- Don't bounce around in front of me at a standing room only concert. How dare you enjoy music through movement.
- Don't breathe loudly. No one wants to know that you are alive and breathing.
- Don't behave irrationally. Don't think irrationally. Don't talk while feeling irrational. Don't ever be irrational around me. I don't care if it's irrational to expect it. Don't do it.
- Don't make rules about what other people can or cannot do.
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Don't smack your food -- ewwwwwww.
I thought of another one (interesting it also has to do with "dining")...Don't continually slurp non-existent liquids from your cup over and over as if you will magically find some invisible morsels at the bottom of your cup (like the girl sitting next to me at the coffee shop).
food rules are huge!
i get cranky around picky people--I think everyone is allowed 1-2 major things that they do not eat. After that, you'd better be on religious or medical dietary restrictions. Or you are ANNOYING. :)
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