I can't help it... I care...

here it is. read this one, and the go make a public comment

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

not opening the comments

letting people be wrong

letting people be wrong about YOU

letting people have a bad impression of you (see above)

knowing when your input isn't needed

spotting bot comments

Like, I make a post saying "hold the door for the person behind you" and I get a bunch of notes like "Ahahaha OP had someone slam a door in their face and now had to go on Tumblr and make a post about it! 🤣🤣🤣"

This is almost never someone following me directly, it's almost always someone reblogging from someone who reblogged from me, so they're probably not aware that I'm a manners education blog. Most of my ideas for posts come from doing research, or they come from messages or submissions, only a tiny fraction are based on real world experiences, and they never seem to be the ones people assume are based on real world experiences.

Quite the opposite actually, somehow the posts that I make based on my own real world experiences are the ones that get notes like "ugh nothing like this actually happens in real life, this isn't a real problem, talk about inventing problems 🙄" and always the ones I find from doing research that get notes like "ahaha this happened to you, get wreck'd OP!!! 🤣🤣🤣"

Still, even if someone is unaware that the post is from a manners education blog, I'll never understand why if you assume something bad happened to someone else or someone's upset about something, why is your first instinct to mock them about it? I find that to be alarmingly sadistic and immature.