People are SO inconsiderate!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But see, flipping them off wouldn't have even satified me a little!! :-) Seriously, I just wish that I didn't care, ya know? That I just felt fine and completely guilt free to put sugar in their gas tank or key their car or something. But, alas, I have a conscience and I can't be mean to people... But ya know what? Karma is a b*tch...

Seriously there are so many times that I wish I didn't have any manners what so ever! There are times when I wish it was socially acceptable to just RAM someone who's in your way! BAAHHHH!!! It really does drive me crazy! And like you mentioned, people will just stop in the middle of an isle and act like there's no one else there that's trying get by! I don't get it! Like, if I have to stop to look at something or whatever I go out of my way to make sure that people can still get by me. It's called common courtesy and, unfortunately, I think it's starting to disappear completely and it SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

In my mind, you need to be polite to people regardless of how you're treated. Being rude back doesn't solve anything. I'm never rude to people. My parents didn't raise me that way. The Golden Rule (as you mentioned, do unto others...) was a big deal in our household. And if you believe the Golden Rule as you suggested, then you would treat people with respect and kindness regardless of how they treated you. If you're doing anything different, then that's a little hypocritical. I agree that there are people who treat walmart employees like crap, but it's no different there than in any other area of customer service. I was a waitress for a very long time and I didn't always get nice, polite people. I would get rude people often who looked at me as their personal servant. Does that mean that I was rude to them? No. In fact I was the opposite. I'm a firm believer that you "kill people with kindness". And, it usually turned out that the rudest customers made the best tippers. So, while I do understand what you're saying, I don't think that's an excuse at all. And it's not like I'm attacking the walmart employees. In my initial post I mentioned how it seems that EVERYONE'S attitude changes when they go into walmart. I never even suggested that it's JUST the employees that are rude.

RyanneD, I'm not justifying people being rude for any reason, but that's just how people are. People are rude and feel it's their right. It's not okay to be rude when someone is rude to you. I know you weren't picking on the employees. I was just stating a fact. Yes, people get crazy going into Targets and Wal-marts here, as well. They do make you wish you don't have manners. They are rude and nasty to everyone. In turn, everyone else blames the employees for everything wrong in their day. NO, it's not right, but it happens. What can we do? Seriously, I really wish more people were like you, the "kill them with kindness" type. I wanted to show this cycle that most people don't know how to break. Someone's rude and nasty with someone, then that person is rude with someone else. It goes on and on. No one is justified in being rude. I'm just saying it happens. When someone is rude and nasty with me. I don't return that rudeness. I'm the "apologize, smile, wish them a nice day and walk away" type.