Online or offline. News keeps reporting about loneliness and disconnection, but in my experience it’s just that it’s harder to interact with people in a civil way because they are so hostile, angry, and arrogantly convinced their viewpoints and experiences are the only legitimate ones.
Not to mention the lack of civility towards servers and other service workers. I can’t recall if I was just indifferent 10 years ago, but on a almost daily basis it blows my mind how openly rude many people are to servers and such, which seemed like a much more rare thing when I was younger.
For me it’s just unprompted random rants at strangers. Especially younger people doing this.
I’ve been on the receiving end of this, but it’s always been older people deciding that I need to hear their opinions.
My experience is the inverse, people my own age or younger ranting at me… and the old folks are the more nice and sociable and chill ones.
Like even walking my dog, older folks are very pleasant, younger ones are very weird and sometimes hostile. Literally last week a younger woman told me my dog was cute, asked if she could pet. I said sure, she asked me her name, I told her, and she scowled and told me it was a stupid name and stormed off. Like, OK angry for no reason person.
My dog’s name is Sally… apparently this was very offensive and upsetting to her. So fucking weird.
That’s so bizarre. Funnily enough my experiences is also always regarding my dog.
Used to go biking with my dog, and old people would always want to give me a piece of their mind for it, because it was so dangerous. I had an tachymeter, I knew how fast he could and should run, we had all the tools, and he is trained to do so. He’s part husky, he is literally bred to run.
Granted, these things have been few and far between. Most people leave you alone, and the few that don’t tend to be nice.
I’d bet $ her name was Sally lmao. Upset she shared a name with a dog.