Latest Pet Peeve

So, here's the latest pet peeve.
Does no one remember the rules of sidewalk etiquette?? This TOTALLY DRIVES ME NUTS!!!
Samuel, my 7 year old, and I walk to school/work together every morning. It's a lovely time for bonding, chatting and such. Except for when I'm frustrated with the other walking public. When we started this routine at the beginning of school, I taught him that if someone was walking toward us, it is very important to SHARE THE SIDEWALK. He needed to either walk ahead of me or fall in step behind me until the person/people passed us by. It's only polite. We don't own the sidewalk, we ALL HAVE TO SHARE!!!
Apparently, walking public have changed the rules for walking together as a harmonized body. Old ladies walk down the middle of the sidewalk and don't move for nothing! Both of us end up scurrying off the sidewalk to let them pass. Teenagers assume I should walk on the road for them, so they can walk together, 3-wide, taking up WAY more than their share. There is one mother who walks with a stroller every morning, with about three other kids in tow. Do you think she would move to her side of the sidewalk with the darn thing so we can all share? Not on your life, buddy! The morification of this is that she is now training the other 4 or 5 children in her care, that it is unnecessary to be polite and share.
Samuel moves quickly and now without even a second thought to share the sidewalk. It's just what he does.
He's a good boy.

Miss Pamyla 

So, I tried to be very creative in all the descriptions on my profile. It cut me off.
I even tried to separate each word with a comma so that it would all show up.
It still cut me off.
I totally hate that.

Blogging

It's odd to me that we are now a generation of people who write on a computer instead of writing letters to keep people informed about our lives.
Here's my latest pet peeve.
I like to collect books of people's letters that have been published. Do you realize that this whole generation will miss out on people's private moments because letter-writing is at an all-time low? Where will the books come from that contain the letters to author's friends, or some public figures' private relationship, or some military figures' written thoughts back to his wife. If Winston Churchill had had email, we would not know anything about how the man thought. That TOTALLY bugs me. I don't know why, but it just does.
Perhaps it is because I have friends with whom I correspond with completely through email. Once that email is deleted, the only remembrance of it is my own perception. Some day, I will be an old woman, and I will wish I had a stack of envelopes from some secret love, wrapped in a ribbon, so that I can re-read them and remind myself of distant times.
Ah well, times they are a-changing......