The Vulgar Lady At Subway
Today I was in line at Subway. It was lunch time and there were maybe 15 people in line. The line was moving at a good clip.
When I was third to last in the line, a woman of about 60 walked up and asked the woman in front of me in line if she could cut. She said she was running late. Somewhat to my surprise, the person in front of me said yes.
The cut-ahead lady then asked the next people up in line if she could cut past them. They said no.
When up at the sandwich line, the cut-ahead lady used the word “want” a lot. I’ve come to note use of this word as a mark of a vulgar person. She said, ”I want a turkey sandwich.” Or, “I want lettuce.”
The right way to say it is “May I please have a turkey sandwich?” Or, “lettuce please.”
“Want” is a vulgar term. As is the word “need.” As in “I need a turkey sandwich.” Starving people need food. You don’t “need” a turkey sandwich when you had breakfast a few hours ago and have every reason to expect dinner at the end of the day.
After her sandwich was made, the cut-ahead lady did not thank the person who made the sandwich. She just paid up and left.
This was a very rude and vulgar person. I hope she is a regular reader of this blog so she can realize the error of her ways. There is no reason to use words such as “want” and “need” when we have the option of saying “may I please have.”
I am tired of people’s poor behavior and I have a blog available to me here to express this feeling.
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Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
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Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
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