How do you deal with the general public (cranky, hyper apes)??

Question

lol I had to put it that way because that's precisely how they behave. Many people. Classless, somewhat cranky, hyper apes. Granted no matter who you are, how much money you have or how likeable you are, or where you are in life, you have to deal with the dreaded "general public," which is basically like dealing with the gutter.

Is there a way to deal with it without going insane?

I tried the ignoring approach, and all that got me was, the general public interpreted me as someone who didn't care, and they laughed at that. I was made fun of for being the "I don't care," janeanne garofalo stereotype.

If you're angry and become bitter and talk back, that's not really winning is it.

I was simply eating out today, in a pretty crowded place, and I noticed that people are hyper and think alot, which is fine and normal, but someone ALWAYS has to either NOT like you, or find something about you to pick on. It's uber-annoying.

How do you deal with this trash and NOT go insane?

Answer 1

Any more these days, I deal with the humanoids out there in the real world as little as possible. -_- I know, not the most helpful answer, but there it is.

Personally, I'd also say it's been my experience that people are at least somewhat easier to deal with on the internet, but...recently, the advent of both SMS-txt-speech and Trolls who Won't be Stopped have made the internet *almost* as unpleasant as real life. Which is a sad, sad thing when you realize, as I have, that *way too much* of my social life is online. I have more and better friends *in instant messenger* than I do in real life....pathetic I know.

If you want a real answer, you may wish to do a Google or Yahoo search on the whole phrase "Civility Initiative", apparently there are a group of researchers writing a *book* about the science of dealing with rude people. Not that the book is out yet, but at least you can keep apace of the progress here.

And yeah, I too would be careful about being angry and bitter and talking back, not so much because of the humanoids, but because some folks *will* see you as a security issue, and the last thing you need is to be a joke on YouTube because of some *trigger happy* ape with a Taser who thinks he's there to "serve and Protect", as opposed to, oh, I dunno, "Punish and Enslave". *lol* ^_^

One thing you *might* be able to get away with, on occasion, is learning how to *seethe* and radiate your anger outward without saying anything. It's a trick of posture, facial expression and body language I had to pick up young, and then *unlearn* as an adult because I had become too good at it, but...

The idea in general is to clench your whole entire body, from your brow at the top of your face, to the bottoms of your feet, as if *you* were one big closed fist. Get the face scrunched up, grind the teeth a little, hunker down and *stomp* your way forward as if walking in *deep snow* and driving your feet into the ground, *toes first* to grab that earth. Learn to snarl. Learn to make *unrelenting* eye contact....with the middle of someone's *throat* as if you mean to rip the thing out.

Granted, you really don't want to do this constantly as it *will* repel people, good and bad, from you. Not to mention, it will ruin your posture, teeth (broken from too much grinding), and leave you sore.

But still, being able to *clench up* and just radiate anger like it's a force field can still do wonders on occasion.

I hope this helps....and if I find a better answer than this I'll let you in on it. Thanks for your time. -_-

Answer 2

because you can't shout them better off AVOID them. you can't fix stupidity.

Answer 3

avoid them as much as possible..