Lazy, much?
The door from the lobby of my building to the corridor off which my office sits, is at the top of a small ramp and the at the bottom of the ramp is one of those little red buttons, to assist disabled people in opening the door (I know this is what it is for, since it has the universal sign for "handicap" right next to it. I know people who are perfectly abled who will use this button all the time. I, myself, push the door open the regular way.
A couple of years ago, one of my co-workers actually walked halfway up the ramp, realized she hadn't pressed the button and then walked back down the ramp to press it. I made fun of her relentlessly for this.
Today, though, I saw something that made my eyes bug out. I was the first person in the office today, but I brought the wrong set of keys. I sweet-talked the guard into letting me into my office, and a girl walked in and started up the ramp behind us. She pressed the red button but the door didn't open and I SWEAR she just stood there, glaring, until the security guard walked back down the ramp and pressed it again.
What really got me, beyond the sheer laziness, was the look of entitlement on her face. She didn't even try pressing the button again, she just stared at the security guard until he walked back down to do it for her. Her arms, empty. Her arms, fully functional.
This girl is a future doctor of America.
Now I'm all riled up and I wish I'd been snarky, but it was too early in the morning.
Submitted by ricket
at 5/2/2008 10:33:05 AM- Future doctors of America are almost always Republican. That's all I'm gonna say.
Submitted by christy
at 5/2/2008 12:15:53 PM- I've been wanting to hunt her down all day.
Submitted by Anony Mous
at 5/5/2008 6:35:58 AM- "Future doctors of America are almost always Republican" WTFITSTM? I'd say they are almost always liberal. Give me my entitlement; otherwise I'm going to stand here until someone gets it for me. Republican? Yeah, right.
Submitted by ricket
at 5/5/2008 3:46:51 PM- OK, it wasn't fair of me to over-generalize like that, but I speak only from my own experiences. The med school classes that I knew personally (at a lefty school, no less) easily had a 80% R:D ratio, possibly higher.
Do you honestly think that the AMA/ADA industries are liberal? Not me.
Just because someone expects an entitlement doesn't make them "liberal". The last eight years should be proof enough of that.
I have often observed this entitlement mentality and the way I describe such people is: they act as if the world is their concierge. When these fiercely self-absorbed tendencies get transferred to driving, with stops and yield signs ignored like the rules are for someone else, it gets very dangerous