So, was reading an interesting article on Yahoo a few minutes ago, and it both managed to make me recoil in disgust, yet also be uplifted and have some faith in humanity restored at the same time. A Dairy Queen employee witnessed a "Visually impaired" older gentleman drop a $20 bill on the floor and not notice it, then witnessed a woman behind the man bend down, pick it up, and put it in her purse. He confronted her, she denied it, he refused her service, then walked up to the older gentleman and gave him $20 right out of his pocket.

link here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/dairy-queen-employee-s-honorable-actions-praised-online-172305933.html

Disgusting what the woman did, but the young man(and his parents who raised him), should be given much props for his actions. If only more people were like him, and less like the woman...

Recoil in disgust at what?

I'd have kept the money if I found it, and didn't know who dropped it. Finders keepers.

But she did know who dropped it, and then denied taking it. That is pretty disgusting.

The woman was standing directly behind the elderly visually impaired gentlemen who dropped it. She picked it up and stuck it into her purse, and then pretended like she hadn't even touched it. That's pretty freaking disgusting to me. Did you even read my entire post(or the article)? Both clearly state that the woman was behind the guy who dropped it.

It is $20. I just gave some girl back $40 who dropped it yesterday. Is this uncommon outside of Hawai'i or something? I mean we are pretty damned broke here, but taking a blind old mans money? What the [censored] kind of a desperate despicable person do you have to be to take an old blind man's money?

I just saw a dude pick a cigarette off the ground and smoke it earlier today though. It had been there awhile. Pretty [censored] disgusting. It is a shame how powerful addiction is for some people. There was only a few puffs left at most too.

I did read it, did you read my properly?
I said I'd keep it if I never knew whose it was. Not implying that she didn't know.

Still I don't find it disgusting at all, disgusting is the wrong word. I'd say what she done was wrong but it doesn't qualify as disgusting.

The article doesn't say how visually impaired the old guy was, that could just mean he needs glasses for reading or some minor condition. Nice way to try make the kids actions sound a lot nicer.

During the war there were many people where I lived who smoked 'bending tobacco' which was a cigarette made from discarded dog-ends rolled in a new paper.

It was called that because you had to bend down to pick the dog-ends off the sidewalk.

I don't think that is disgusting, I think it's pretty clever and frugal. If you don't have the money, you improvise. At least it's better than stealing to get money.

I don't think you read it with attention, or you would have realised that it was 1. A young man and 2. He was blind or nearly blind.

And yes, behaviour such as the woman displayed is despicable and disgusting, it is most certainly not civil, forthcoming, polite or kind.

Something similar happened to me at work. I thought the money I saw on the floor belonged to her since see was the closet one to it. And right after she picked it up she told me it was hers and that she was looking for it. Then after she left this other women comes up to me basiclly screaming at me telling me that. That money didn't belong to the woman who picked it it belonged to the gentleman before her! I had no idea I told her then she tells me that she saw the money drop from the other man. So I interacted with two dishonest women the first one just lied to my face telling me it was hers. When there was no need for that she could have just picked up the money and said thank you and walked away! And the only reason the second woman was mad was because she wanted the money for herself that was the whole reason why she was in my face yelling at me! She saw who droped it and said nothing just waiting for the best time to grab it. Ugh! Women am I right fellas?!

How does that even matter?

Don't think I'd advocate ignoring basic hygiene for the sake of frugality . . .

You shouldn't let addiction rule your life like that though. There were a few puffs. It was unsanitary and was a cigarette. That is quite disgusting. It is disgusting in of itself imo. But picking it off the ground to feed your addiction is almost a caricature of disgust.

What men do in desperate moments when their life is on the line is not comparible to this event. I don't see it as all that relevant to this moment.

Much easier said than done, once addiction has taken hold.

How did this thread become about addiction anyways? LOL

It is my personal experience and I could be wrong and erroneously extending that experience to a whole group that doesn't deserve it, but as I see it women can be far nastier and meaner than men.

They are capable of holding a grudge for far, far longer, they can be downright vile towards people, whereas with a man it's usually short bursts of anger and then you go to the pub for a pint and are friends again, for a woman such animosity can last a lifetime.

Hygiene smygene.

People put too much stock these days in nonsense such as antiseptic soaps.

When you take tobacco and use a paper to roll a new cigarette, the tobacco will be subject to quite acrid smoke and quite intense heat. I'd say it's enough to sterilise whatever might happen to be in there, and on the other hand if your immune system can't even handle a sidewalk you're best off giving up altogether and should move into a plastic bubble.

One of my greatest pet peeves of the modern age, this completely unnecessary obsession with hospital quality cleanliness.

So edgy that I cut myself just reading that post.

well women say all men are the same so by that logic I like to say all women are the same. Now on to the real question. What war were you taking about? World war 2? Vietnam? The secret wars?

Both sixes are equally capable of meanness. Its typical manifestation may differ for various reasons, though neither one or the other is really worse.

Oh, sorry.

In my nation, when we say 'the war' we mean ww2. We are not a warlike nation and that is the last one we were actively involved in, apart form the modern trend of 'peacekeeping forces' and 'police actions' and in how much those are wars is debatable.

It's the same really as when we say 'cheese'. There are many different kinds of cheeses, but if a Dutchman just says 'cheese' he means Gouda cheese. Otherwise we'll say brie or stilton or whathaveyou.

It certainly seems that way, sometimes, but I don't think that holding a life long grudge and extreme 'nastiness' is gender specific. I do believe however that women are more likely to openly display these feeling and behaviors because in most cultures women are just able to get away with it more than men... It is almost expected that women are going to be more outwardly angry or wrathful when offended or upset, hence the very common phrase; "a women's wrath". You never here it said as "a man's wrath"...

And the average age of death in most countries with state of the art hygiene is much higher than what it used to be.

Or maybe it has nothing to do with feeding an addiction and simply stems from the fact that some people see opportunity where others can't because of their high-minded sense of social standards. That kind of backhandedly superior judgement I find more disgusting, personally - there's absolutely nothing shameful or wrong in making use of the refuse tossed by others who are less frugal and bound by hypersanitised lifestyles.

When viewing the statistics, this trend towards mothers absolutely panicking if their child even touches some sand, of people being annoyed when someone touches their fruit and all that other baloney only started roughly towards the end of the eighties, whereas life expectancy has been rising since ww2 and so it's not related.

Life expectancy may be related to hygiene and modern medicine, but this new trend is miles overboard in anything that is useful or sane.

That's not exactly healthy hygiene practice anyway (it's more hygienic to be a little bit unhealthy as a child to build up resistance). In any case I don't this trend is anywhere near close to widespread, at least I've never seen it in action (then again I've grown up in a rural area, which tend to be behind the times in most aspects).

I payed my way through college mainly by working in hotels. I saw there once a young woman who was doing a hotelier study and was getting some work experience in the hotel I worked at.

She got the task of making fruit baskets for high-end rooms. The idea was that you went to the kitchens, took a selection of nice looking fruits and arranged them artfully in a bowl.

She did a terrible job of it and we could not understand why.

So at some point a supervisor thought to show her how it was done properly. He arranged the fruits nicely, polished them all with a cloth and all that jazz.

The woman looked at him in total incomprehension and said: "But now you've touched each piece of fruit."

At that point it was the supervisors turn to be completely baffled. They stood there for what seemed like half a minute, each trying to figure out on what planet the other one lived.

I thought it was very funny and I also thought it was the young woman who was in the wrong here.

You mean the backhanded superior-judgement you just tossed my way because I find a habit that kills 300,000 users and 30,000 non-users annually disgusting? The same habit that is notoriously addictive? Must be really strange when I would draw the conclusion that this man is addicted to cigarettes based on grabbing an old cigarette with a couple puffs left, off a piece of ground where dozens of people walk constantly through all sorts of crap from pet [censored] to pesticides. Bound by hypersanitized lifestyle, please. More like being rational. Oh and ya know, i might have seen this same guy bumming cigarettes from people constantly as well. Never returning the favor and picking up a cigarette off the ground that had likely been there for hours.

I don't have a high minded sense of social standards. You don't know how I grew up so you cannot understand where I come from. So I guess your presumption isn't all that surprising. I drank from the water hose and faucet and it was delicious. However, it was not some oppurtunistic venture here. I get down and dirty in many senses of the phrase, but that was disgusting to me. Would eating a piece of a sandwich you found on the ground be something you would do? Seems kind of disgusting if you ask me and unsanitary.

Lastly, I never said he was wrong or shameful. I said it was disgusting. Lets not put words in my mouth.

Edit: my bad for the tone. It is 2:14am here and well, your tone wasn't all that inviting either.

It doesn't. But yet the writer felt it did somehow, to build sympathy for the man or to get greater praise for the kid

1 & 2 - It's still irrelevant. What difference would this act of greed by the woman, or kindness by the kid, have if the gentleman had perfect vision. None, I've just been given useless information to help vilify one person and glorify another.

Both words are too strong to be used here, and I didn't claim her actions were polite/kind/etc.

This is the same kind of act you'd see a toddler doing. Taking something and denying it, it's a naturally thing to do - if the kid said the CCTV footage (if there was any) caught her, she'd probably own up much like a toddler would.

Point being this is nothing but humans acting like humans