Seriously?! No, really. Seriously!

Our recent travels have confirmed many of my recurring thoughts.  Common courtesy has gone out the window.  On every leg of our trip, we encountered rudeness layered upon rudeness.  It ranged from a bit of inconsideration to blatant disregard for others.

#1 - Airplane Etiquette
Yes, you paid for a seat on the plane.  A is singular.  With this one seat comes a button that you can use to expand your seat's space.  One would think that you would consider the person behind you for one moment before cranking it back as far as it can go.  One would think that if the person behind you was obviously pregnant, you might consider that said person is short on space to begin with.  Well, one would think this.  However, the four different people in front of me did not.  In fact, every single one of them put the seat all the way back as soon as possible.  To add to the crap, every single one was a bouncer.  You know the person that has to pretend their seat is a bouncy house.  It was made just for them to jump into when sitting down or wrestle around on while sitting.   The bouncy house effect left my knees just a bit bruised and my eyes very tired from constantly being aroused from sleep. 

When you are sitting behind someone, you do not get to use their seat as your personal hand rest.  I am not quite sure what possessed you to think that MY seat was the best place to put your hand for 80% of the flight.  I am also wondering how you did not get it when I kept glaring back at you.  I thought you might have gotten the hint when your hand kept hitting my head or when you pulled my hair.  I guess you left your sign at home.

Running into someone requires a simple sorry.  Then again, almost every person who ran into me was too cushy to have felt it.  Don't worry.  I apologized for you.  

#2 - Public Transportation Etiquette
Let's get back to that one seat concept.  You are one person.  You get one seat.  You do not get to sprawl across two seats because your pants are too far down your ass.  This is made even better when the train is crowded and people are holding onto the bars.

It is only trumped by you looking directly at a very pregnant woman and doing nothing.  Then again, nobody else did anything either.  Everyone with a seat let several elderly women stand and try to balance while holding a bar for dear life.  If I had a seat, I would have given it to any one of them. 

Repeat the apologetic bump.  Use it.  Love it.  Live it. 

#3 - Pregnancy Related Idiocy
Random lady on the plane, thanks for asking if my water just broke.  I was merely standing up after sitting on a plane for 3 hours.  So yes, my back hurt and I winced getting up.  I didn't feel bad at all when I responded, "Well, considering I am only halfway there, I hope not." and you got a pained look on your face.  I don't know you.  Why would you comment on something so personal?  

Don't touch people you don't know.  My body, my belly.  Your body, your belly.  I doubt you would like me touching your belly.  In fact, you looked somewhat hurt when I stopped you from touching my belly.  Go back to kindergarten and learn about boundaries.

Yes, I am pre-boarding.  Why are you pre-boarding?  You do not look disabled at all.  Oh, it's your husband.  He doesn't look disabled either.  Then again,  I wouldn't be rude enough to actually ask you if you were pre-boarding with a snotty look on my face or try to look at your boarding documentation to check your status.  I certainly wouldn't be rude enough to cut in line because I think that I am more important than you.  I do not care that you are pre-boarding.  It is none of my f-ing business.  Just like my pre-boarding is none of your f-ing business.  And cutting in front of the two women in wheelchairs was super klassy. 

Traveling just reinforced how much people can suck and how much I want to tell them that they do.