Courtesy versus Religion.

[CathyBogart]

As a pagan, I'd be in some trouble if I didn't have the ability to accept an Xmas card with grace. I honestly appreciate the well-wishes and it would never occur to me to be offended. In fact, I have a stack of Xmas cards to give out this year, even though that's not my holiday.

As for dietary requirements though....I don't see at all how that was discourteous. She had religious beliefs that excluded certain foods, she wasn't rude about it, and it worked out fine.

[RICHARD]

Dietary restrictions for health reasons are more important than religious/lifestyle choices.


For some people something as innocent as peanuts can kill them.

If I drink milk in 15 minutes you can hear my stomach across the room and I'll be in the potty for the rest of the day.

Veganism is a choice-not a religion. I have had to put up with people who don't drink milk, wear leather and then procede to yak about how I am wrecking my health. 80 percent of the time, Veggies are rude ...
I live in the capital of vegans......I have seen this time and time again.

Living in Lost Angeles, land of the fruits, nuts and space aliens, I have seen people in line and in restaurants making such a big deal out of THEIR choices.

I get incensed with I hear a veggie bugging a server about ordering.

"Is the milk organic?" what about the tomatoes?" "I only eat free range cabbage!" "what kind of oil do you use?" 'Are the napkins made out of hemp?"
" I only drink spring water......"

I don't expect people to eat a taco or drink booze for the hell of it..I just like to experience life without someone complaining aboiut the THEIR demons-
Politeness does work.


And since we are heading into choices......Check this one out!!!

Another woman in my office would refuse to partake in our pot luck meals...

Why? she didn't like to eat food that was "picked thru by people before her".

So we had to set up the vittles and wait for her so we could eat....We had to wait for her to "pick thru" the food before we could eat......sometimes we had to postphone our lunches 40 minutes to accomodate this AH.

She was a MORON!

[sparks19]

LOL Richard.


Where does this feeling of entitlement come from these days?

Everyone thinks people should make special arrangements just for them no matter how inconvenient it is for everyone else. What happened to common courtesy?

I hate walking around a public pool with wet feet but I don't DEMAND that they mop the ground everytime I want to walk around somewhere..... I DEAL WITH IT.

If she doesn't want to eat pot luck because she doesn't like food that has been touched before her then she should bring her own lunch. What if TWO people didn't want to eat food that had been touched before them? They can't BOTH have first dibs.

[Cataholic]

Dietary restrictions for health reasons are more important than religious/lifestyle choices.

Ah, the King has spoken. For me, my choices are just as important as someone else's....no matter their origin.

Veganism is a choice-not a religion. I have had to put up with people who don't drink milk, wear leather and then procede to yak about how I am wrecking my health. 80 percent of the time, Veggies are rude ...
I live in the capital of vegans......I have seen this time and time again.

I get incensed with I hear a veggie bugging a server about ordering.

"Is the milk organic?" what about the tomatoes?" "I only eat free range cabbage!" "what kind of oil do you use?" 'Are the napkins made out of hemp?"
" I only drink spring water......"

Richard, a vegatarian lifestyle, in all of its different 'grades' or 'levels' usually rotates around the origin of the food, not whether it is organic, whether one wears leather, or if napkins are made out of hemp. So, I question some of your conclusions. While I do drink organic milk, and buy some organic veggies, I don't care about hemp products at all. I don't know other vegatarians that are 'rude' anymore than I know of any one group that is rude.

I can only conclude you know, perhaps, the most rudest people I have ever heard of.

Another woman in my office would refuse to partake in our pot luck meals...

Why? she didn't like to eat food that was "picked thru by people before her".

So we had to set up the vittles and wait for her so we could eat....We had to wait for her to "pick thru" the food before we could eat......sometimes we had to postphone our lunches 40 minutes to accomodate this AH.

She was a MORON!

From my perspective, the ONLY one with a problem in this scenario is the person/people that waited, postponing lunches for 40 minutes. To think that one single person had a group of people so well trained is remarkable. I don't know of such people. Must be the one benefit of living in boring ole Ohio.

[joycenalex]

[QUOTE=Cataholic
... To think that one single person had a group of people so well trained is remarkable. I don't know of such people. Must be the one benefit of living in boring ole Ohio. [/QUOTE]
you never met teresa at my job, here in columbus ohio. . and after 10 minutes, i'd be digging in.

[RICHARD]

Ah, the King has spoken. For me, my choices are just as important as someone else's....no matter their origin.




Richard, a vegatarian lifestyle, in all of its different 'grades' or 'levels' usually rotates around the origin of the food, not whether it is organic, whether one wears leather, or if napkins are made out of hemp. So, I question some of your conclusions. While I do drink organic milk, and buy some organic veggies, I don't care about hemp products at all. I don't know other vegatarians that are 'rude' anymore than I know of any one group that is rude.

I can only conclude you know, perhaps, the most rudest people I have ever heard of.



From my perspective, the ONLY one with a problem in this scenario is the person/people that waited, postponing lunches for 40 minutes. To think that one single person had a group of people so well trained is remarkable. I don't know of such people. Must be the one benefit of living in boring ole Ohio.

Now they lay his body down
Sad old men who run this town
I still recall the way
He led the charge and saved the day
Blue blood and rain
I can hear the bugle playin'

We seen the last of Good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to Good King John

Sorry, I have a queen already...I'll file your application...

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I would rather see the veggies flopping around on the ground because of their limited choices at an eatery than a person who is having a seizure/event from an allergic reaction to food, Just my own perference.

I dunno how the vegans act in the "bread basket" of America.
Out here in Lost Angeles they are obnoxious, rude and scary. Remember, I do live in the "big city"- the flotsam and jetsam wash up on our shore more often.


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About the 'Delay the Meal' co worker..


She was a work in progress.

This was a union shop.

She was a woman, a minority, she was disabled and she knew how to work the system.

So.....If you did cut lines at the pot luck, the whole office suffered and suffer we did. Because she processed the people coming into the office how late the others worked depended on her.

So......if you got her mad, she'd tell the patient to show up at 5:15 in the afternoon, she'd leave at 5:30 and the educator, phlebotomist and scheduler had to work until 6:30-7...

Complain?

We were playing the race card, discriminating against her because she was a woman, had a disability or were being mean.

She had a separate boss, so WE had to conform to her ideas, whims and moods.....

[momoffuzzyfaces]

I think the world has lost their perception on all this holiday exclusion stuff. If I give someone a card or a gift, it's because I like them and want to share one of the most important times of my life with them. I'm not trying to offend anyone. I'm trying to share. I got wished a "Happy Father's Day" once and I can quarentee I have never been nor never will be a father. I just grinned and said "Thank YOU!!!"

We are fast coming to the time when no one will be able to celebrate anything in public. I heard on Fox news just today of an appartment complex that were forbidden to display any type of outside holiday decorations. No lights or even a wreath. The people would be evicted if they did.

This happened to the retirement complex one of my aunts lived in too. The first year she was there they had a grand time. Every corner was decorated and they had dinners and lots of fun all month for all. Then this one grumpy guy moved in who threatened to sue if Christmas was displayed. That's how he made his living by sueing people, by the way. Anyway, what a depressing year that was for all of them. No decorations, no smiles, no dinners. They were all so depressed. Luckily, he moved out so now they can have fun again.

I say to all, enjoy all the holidays now because the time is coming, unless there is a change in the attitudes in this country, when it will be illegel to celebrate anything UNLESS PRE-APPROVED BY THE GOVERNMENT!

[Catsnclay]

Living in Lost Angeles, land of the fruits, nuts and space aliens

Ah, this reminds me of the time my sister lived in L.A. She wouldn't eat, drink or smoke anything unless it was natural Needless to say, when she came home for Thanksgiving all she did was eat & drink all the un-natural things she could get her hands on - yes, McDonalds was also on her list!! IMO her smoking all that natural stuff got to her!!


I have many Jewish friends who do celebrate Christmas along with their holidays. I use to have a boss that was brought up Mormon, he told me that they use to eas & drink anything they wanted.....as long as it wasn't if front of the family! He also refered to his former religion as "Moron's".

I am SO glad I no longer work, now you have to be careful what you say & do and to whom! What is this world coming to?!

[cassiesmom]

80 percent of the time, Veggies are rude ...
I live in the capital of vegans......I have seen this time and time again.

Living in Lost Angeles, land of the fruits, nuts and space aliens, I have seen people in line and in restaurants making such a big deal out of THEIR choices.

I get incensed with I hear a veggie bugging a server about ordering.

"Is the milk organic?" what about the tomatoes?" "I only eat free range cabbage!" "what kind of oil do you use?" 'Are the napkins made out of hemp?"
" I only drink spring water......"

That sounds excessive, I've never heard anyone asking questions that specific here in Chicagoland. But I'm willing to bet it has happened.

[RICHARD]

That sounds excessive, I've never heard anyone asking questions that specific here in Chicagoland. But I'm willing to bet it has happened.

Cross the Rockies....the ride up deprives you of oxygen, so when you land on the other side you are brain damaged.



That conversation is a mixture of some of the conversations I have heard.
I am being facetious and over the top.