CNN.com - Survey finds rudeness is getting worse - April 3, 2002

CNN.com - Survey finds rudeness is getting worse - April 3, 2002: ""

Kev's endured my rants about this but I had it happen to me several times over the course of Macworld. I'll be in the middle of a software demo, one on one with the presenter, when someone will walk right up into the middle of us and comandeer the conversation to what they want or need, and do it LOUDLY. Sometimes it isn't even related to the subject at hand, it can be something like "WHAT BOOTH NUMBER ARE YOU?" My polite Canadian self doesn't say much when this happens, though the last time it did I had to walk away, else I would have punched the sun-dried hippy from Hawaii who thought being from Maui was WAY more important that anything else. Another instance, I was in the process of buying something when a guy walked up and yelled for a booth number. After he stormed away I said the woman I was dealing with "I could have swore I was talking you, not him" "I know, you see a lot of that kind of thing here" She replied. I still felt somewhat put off and said "Not to over-generalize, but I am from Canada, and you wouldn't see that up there!" And I still think it's true.