I'm I wrong or are people rude?

[jtm1631]

Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that people are unnecessarily rude.

I was walking my dog last night in the rain and found a kids book bag and folder on the ground. I looked in the book bag and there were several books and the folder had the kids name on it. I decided rather than leaving the books in the rain that I would knock on the nearsest door and ask them if they knew the name on the folder.

Now it was dark out and about 7:30 at night. We live in a nice neighborhood with minimal crime. All the homes in the area are single family and most have school aged children.

I did not think much of ringing the doorbell at the house to see if they had lost the books. I could see a TV on in the front room of the house but got no answer at the door. As I started to walk away I heard a voice coming from the car that was sitting in the drive way. There was a guy sitting in the car in the dark that I did not notice. Now the guy starts yelling at me. Yelling "go away" "what the BLEEP do you want". I begin to explain that I found the books, etc. but he just keeps yelling.

Now, I exchanged some words with him but it amazes me how rude people are.

Here I thought I was trying to do someone a favor and this guys reaction is to become abusive.

Am I over reacting to his response? I didn't think 7:30 was too late to knock on someone's door, it's a safe area.

Who's the jerk here, me or him?

JT

 

[Serena]

You know it was him. Sheesh! Trying to do something good and get yelled at.

 

[mtblujeans]

I thought you meant on the boards when I saw the title of the thread....I was going to suggest you forgive us wretched, rude posters (me)

Sounds like maybe you caught him in the car doing something he shouldn't have been doing....

 

[laurajetter]

What is WRONG with people? Hopefully he was the exception to the rule.

One time years back, I was in the car with my dad and he had just turned out of the driveway. Shortly thereafter, we approached two cars stopped ahead of us--either a fender bender or just car trouble. There was no shoulder, so a lady was waving us to go around. My dad slowed down and started to ask if they needed help in any way, and the foul-mouthed lady cut him off and just start yelling, "Go around, 'BLEEP BLEEP', I said keep going, 'BLEEP BLEEP'" Geez, he was only trying to help!

-Laura

 

[Pete's Mom]

Originally posted by mtblujeans
Sounds like maybe you caught him in the car doing something he shouldn't have been doing....

His first name wouldn't happen to be PeeWee, would it?