{"id":2081,"date":"2012-05-16T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewliberty.com\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2012-05-16T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:36:30","slug":"psa-unobservant-free-grazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threeadventure.com\/matthewliberty\/2012\/05\/16\/psa-unobservant-free-grazers\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Unobservant free grazers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Step away from the buffet!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After reading this blog post by Seth Godin<\/a> it got me thinking about my experiences when people and free shit meet. I\u2019ve seen people at the Farmer\u2019s markets (as Seth points out in his post), at Costco, and even at Chamber of Commerce Mixer\u2019s\u2026and to be honest, I view it less from Seth\u2019s point (the business side) of view and more from the side of how often people don\u2019t realize what they look like in public.<\/p>\n

I personally am not a \u201cfreebie\u201d person, I don\u2019t go around looking for free bites and sips of this or that; occasionally I partake but probably not as often as I should. Even when my wife and I have gone to Chamber Mixer\u2019s in the past we typically talk to people and then leave to go to dinner or come home to make something.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, we see people acting like all food will disappear off the face of the Earth the next day so they try to stand near the \u201cfood table\u201d and gobble every last morsel up. I like to think of these people as \u201cfree grazers\u201d because they will graze on anything that is free.\u00a0 When I see behavior like this, no matter where I am, I feel embarrassed for these people, I feel disappointed in human beings. We can do things like this and do it with tact versus slobbery and outright animalistic behavior\u2026can\u2019t we?<\/p>\n

These are just a few scenarios in which we, as a society, have evolved in to utter laziness and lack of awareness. My wife and I people watch all the time; whether we\u2019re sitting in a park, a restaurant, a bar patio, or a winery in any city we may go to, it\u2019s all the same. People are not as aware of their own being and what is going on around them as they should be.<\/p>\n

Just the other day we watched a woman get out of a car with two kids (about 7 to 10 years old) and simply start walking across the street, luckily the driver was paying attention because the pedestrian didn\u2019t look for traffic until halfway through that first lane. We\u2019ve been at wineries and had people get right up next to us with no awareness of personal space, even when the winery is not crowded.<\/p>\n

These points may sound petty or whatever, but I think so many things in this world could and would be better if people would simply step back and be aware of what they are doing, how they are behaving, what they are saying, and what is going on around them. Even though it is not our responsibility to please everyone, I am certain if we were simply more aware and observant we could lessen or mitigate those things we do that cause issue somewhere else.<\/p>\n

Like that lady not looking prior to crossing the street, isn\u2019t it her job to be aware? Luckily the driver was but we can\u2019t always count on other people being aware of our next move, therefore we have to take responsibility of ourselves and be aware of what is happening around us.<\/p>\n

Any time that I\u2019m out where other people are roaming freely, I always try to look around prior to moving so I am sure I\u2019m not about to bump into someone or take out a small child. I\u2019m the same way when I drive as well. If I\u2019m doing something, like at the walk up window at the bank, I always have everything prepared when I go up there so I don\u2019t need to keep others waiting just because I\u2019m a lazy pig.<\/p>\n

Just because you don\u2019t perceive something as irritating, doesn\u2019t mean that the rest of the world doesn\u2019t. And it\u2019s not that I think we need to change who we are for others, but when what we do intrudes into or on to someone else, it IS our obligation to tread lightly. Be cautious about dropping F-Bombs in certain public places, watch for traffic when you\u2019re a pedestrian, have your stupid bank crap ready when you\u2019re in line so we don\u2019t all have to wait on YOU, look before you back out of the parking space, and of course I\u2019m going to laugh at you if you walk through an orange coned construction zone because you could take your bug eyes off your cell phone.<\/p>\n

Common sense people\u2026so back to the freebie crap I started this with. Yes, it\u2019s all intertwined; just because there are free samples or there\u2019s a buffet of finger foods laid out at the Chamber of Commerce Mixer DOES NOT mean that you need to pig out, free graze, or hog the stuff. If you MUST indulge, take your share (which means it\u2019s not a heaping plate worth of crap) and move on. If you\u2019re still hungry when you leave stop at taco Bell and get the Doritos Taco\u2026but stop grossing people out in public.<\/p>\n

I personally don\u2019t view this as a rant, I view it more as a PSA (Public Service Announcement).<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n

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