how rude could you get?

Hard question to answer really. It all depends on the mood I'm in to the response they'd get from me. Mainly tho i'd just ignore them or ignore the nastiness. Think on the old proverb 'two wrongs dont make a right'. A lot of times if its some1 you know and you start back on them, you are the one usually who has to apologise. One good thing to remember tho - its the person who being nasty to you that is making themselves look stupid, not you. On the inside you should b laughing at how stupid they making themselves look. One other thing you could do if you find some1 being nasty to you is to try look at the situation from outside and imagine you are a spectator and watching this person being nasty to some1 else. Your first thought would b how stupid the nasty person is and how downright ignorant they making themselves look. Just follow the main rule - don't speak without thinking and you'll get through this situations a lot easier. On the other hand tho if it was a motorist that cut me up or something like that I'd curse at them all i could. They can't hear you and its a good way of letting off the daily steam.

For the someone who cuts in line - I really go to that person and tell him/her that there's a line. Usually the others would support me doing so. *LOL* For the other things. It's usually ignoring if I'm too tired to complain about it. If I'm angry I try to calm down. I was really rude once and until now to a person that really gets on my nerves. He was once an online friend who now is completely going nuts. He wants to court me and I honestly told him that I wasn't interested. He persisted and doing his stuff, but I really tried my best not to offend the person because after all, all of us, at one point or another, felt something that we needed to tell another. But he's way overboard. He tells me that he'd never stop until he sees me pregnant! and even threatened to jump over a cliff. Now, I tell him he deserves to be ignored. I really tell him to back-off and ignore whenever he tries to talk to me. And the rudest thing I did was to tell him that the thought of him makes my nerve twitch and there's nothing that would make me happier than not ever seeing nor talking to him anymore. Whew! But guess what. he's still at it. So now, it's ignoring forever. People like this don't deserve kindness, they deserve rudeness.

the world is more or less what we make it..if we let the "fools" get to us..then it can be a nasty place.. i try to rise above the petty people and show them that I have more class then to lower myself to their level..it does not always work.. my father was a real "gentleman" and i know i am not like him..but i try to be..everyone loved my fathers ways..and you don't realize this until it is too late