Analyze this

[hardtoremember]

http://www.improveverywhere.com/miss...?mission_id=57

Its funny on one hand.... and on the other... if you analyze the social behavior that happens... very interesting to watch how we are trained to be.

~HTR~

Looking forward to your opinions.

[David Merrill]

I had not realized how much I have always wanted a McDonald's hat until I found one lying on the ground. While cleaning it up I noted a couple staples carefully punched on the stitching of the visor. I almost removed them when I realized that is a show of rank. Now I am looking at the employees' visors to discern their rank instead of ordering...

[kmcarr]

I shop at home depot a lot. I cant walk in the place without someone asking me a question. Where can I find this item, how do you measure for this? I dont even have the orange smock that the employees wear. I guess I look like a handy guy, I dont know. I think most of it is that I look comfortable there, like I know what I am looking for and have a purpose as opposed to most employees that tend to be on the phone and wandering aimlessly.

Nice catch about the staples in the MD hats, Ill have to check it out.

[David Merrill]

Originally Posted by kmcarr

Nice catch about the staples in the MD hats, Ill have to check it out.

Thanks. I am really into a lot of this stuff, and I usually get it all on the record too.

They got Nannycams on the busses these days. Lately when the little gangsters in the back were making the ladies uncomfortable I started photographing them (of course after I had asked them to watch their language). Well, they didn't like that much so I pressed the red activation button on the Nannycam.

What surprised me was the driver's reaction. He called me in on his radio and reported me like I was the troublemaker. Then he apparently realized I had done nothing wrong and tried to convince everybody I had summoned the police. Hopefully you can make it out; it's pretty funny but maybe you had to be there. The pauses while people are thinking is really what busts a stitch for me - like the folks down at "Base" are all spilling their Starbuck's on NCIS or something.

To help you hear it:

"A passenger came up and manually set off my DriveCam."

The driver tries to explain...

"It's (the DriveCam) hooked up to the poe-lice cars and things."

And after a moment somebody (suppressing laughter) monitoring the channel cannot resist correcting that,

"That red button does not call the police."

I am sure the camera streams constantly but for the comfort of illusion of privacy they train the drivers that when it is activated it stored only the last 10 seconds and following post-trigger twenty (ergo you see why I believe it is streaming constantly - just because the only constraint is memory and these DriveCams cost $1600 each). The driver has a button on his left and there is a button under the camera for people to activate it.

The driver and I got into a discussion about whether he had to have control over two buttons or whether one button was enough for him and one for me.

To help you hear it:

ME:[While I am activating the NannyCam I explain,] "Oh. They're just back there... mouthing off."

DRIVER: "You can't do that. You can't set that camera off." [Five seconds after I had obviously just done that.]

When I say, "That's what I thought.", you can hear one of the buspunks laughing.




Regards,

David Merrill.

That is my kind of humor.

I especially like the guy who knew his rights.

Henry Franklin

[David Merrill]

Originally Posted by HenryBowman

That is my kind of humor.

I especially like the guy who knew his rights.

Henry Franklin

Thank you and likewise Henry Franklin;


A couple weeks back three ex-convicts were reunited with one particularly big black fellow just out of Florence (where they are sending Mousoui (sp?)). Then a pretty 15 year old was sent by full seats back into the whole mess where the guy gave up his seat for her and began a rather disgusting display of horney. Well... full as the bus was we all froze up and she finally moved back up front when a seat became available.

But that craven feeling lingered with me for the entire afternoon. I froze up out of fear and decided that I will prefer a violent altercation, being maimed or killed to ever feeling that way again! No more for me. When she got back up in front of us, well maybe the other people were also thinking she must have felt the dread that nobody would stop this guy from anything he wanted to do. And maybe she was right!

These kids were nothing compared to the first instance but I saw the people I would rather be riding with silenced by fear with their boisterous and foul language. So I asked them to please watch their language on public transportation. That's not too much to ask.

As far as the NannyCam goes, I have discussed it with several drivers after the horney incident and they, especially the 73 year-old fellow do not want to be knifed or shot. So they encouraged me to use the NannyCam to intimidate rowdies and punks so that they stay out of it. These punks seem to be spraypainting gang signs without the cans.

That particular driver apparently became embarrassed for calling it in. He stopped, got out and called the whole Supervisor Visit off on his cell phone. The buspunks mistakenly got off the bus and had to reboard because the bus had changed into the route they wanted. The driver told them no cussing - like reading them their rights Miranda style. And I chided them about getting off the bus too. I expected next time I saw that driver he would lecture me to keep my hands off the NannyCam. But quite the opposite - he seems to have a new respect for me instead.


Regards,

David Merrill.


So you can hear better:

"I'll let you back on but there will be no more cussin' like you were doing a while ago. You will remain silent. I'll kick you off if I hear anymore cussin' on the bus."

[kmcarr]

The whole bus exchange you have documented shows the apathy rampant in society today. The bus driver just wants a paycheck. "I don’t want no trouble" meaning anything to come between me and my paycheck. He doesn’t care what happens on "his" coach as long as it doesn’t involve him. When someone who does care about the environment around himself and others on the coach takes steps to maintain civility and courtesy it is a shock to the CNS of everyone on board. Yes, they are thankful that someone took action but it is just a little odd for society today. Everyone likes nice clean city streets but will not take action to keep them clean. It is one think to not throw a candy wrapper on the ground, and it is quite another to pick someone else’s up. Also I think the bus scenario demonstrates how people feel/or wait for someone with authority to act and save them. You know that everyone on that bus shares it and has the authority to admonish unruly behavior. I really appreciate you sharing this experience with us.

David Merrill is watching the watchers...

I likey.

Henry Franklin

[David Merrill]

Thank you; glad to share.

The older driver shared his thoughts that the cab is owned by the people. He is not going to push the odds and become the enemy of these punks. He expects the people sharing the cab to take ownership of the bus.

At 73 years I do not accept the passing of the responsibility as cowardice, morelike that we need to be responsible for the elderly, children and women around us all the time. That just comes with sovereignty and property rights - ownership. The driver on the NannyCam incident is over six feet, healthy and still was willing to let these guys stink up the cab with their foul language - - until I prodded him by hitting the (what he thought was his) NannyCam. He reported it and suddenly saw how he cried to Base over nothing and so he called off his Supervisor Visit and told the kids no more cussin'.

When I sit quiet in fear, without taking ownership of my environment (to a reasonable extent), and especially if I watch someone being victimized while doing nothing; it is like injecting myself with the flu. It makes me feel sick to the point where I am actually susceptible to getting infected. It actually knocks my immunity out of whack. And when I act, usually things turn out alright. So I am done sitting on my thumbs.


Regards,

David Merrill.

P.S. Back on track though; more about that journal on Best Buy imposters?

[hardtoremember]

The point to my post on analyzing peoples reactions and behavior when something outside the range of their comfort zone or what is part of the "daily grind".

I find it interesting that you can WATCH on Television or in a movie something completely shocking... but when something and talk about how you WOULD react.. or it seems socially acceptable... but when it happens right in front of you... behavior and "autopilot" reactions are interesting.

On a lighter note... when someone simply does something "different" OR a group of people do something "different"... they MUST be up to something... they MUST be dangerous because they are not CONFORMING (I think that word has been used a few times by thugs on this forum) to what is around them... they are asked why they are there, why are they not conforming, what is wrong with them, etc.

As long as you follow the LAWS OF NATURE... why must you conform to what others call THEIR LAW? LAW as most of us know it is the opinion of a bunch of... usually old men... who decide what is best for each and everyone of us as we are too simple to know ourselves.

Turn around in an elevator and face the back of the elevator... watch the reactions... YOU are the wierd one on the elevator... you are the one not conforming... do you see the social training on that small level that affects the dialy opinion we have of each other?

What is the difference between facing the back of an elevator while others face the front... and discussing evidence of something that someone else is doing wrong agains others?

In some "states" it is "illegal" to walk by a "crime" as it is in "progress". It is in my opinion when you see anyone taking advantage of another, it is your responsibility to say/do something and stop them from taking advantage of another.

There is a group of men and women who are forcing nearly 2/3rds of this "country" to do things they really dont need to do. We have been trained that if you do not CONFORM, that there is something wrong with you... A group of people have gathered in teaching each other and discussing these things and want to only conform to what we individually feel is right for ourselves without the interference of others. In gathering together we are now that individual who is facing the back of the elevator...

Myself included... I think many of us are guilty of improper judgements of others because they step out of the "daily grind".

I love social experiments and would love to hear others and what they have experienced while doing that.

David, I really enjoyed your post, I think it would be fun for others to post recordings of thier experiments.

I posted some information to the admin in a PM of an experiment I did with the "CALIFORNIA BAR" that I think I may redo the experiment via voice recording as it may illustrate to others an interesting social behavior of thugs when asked specific questions that expose their poor social skills.

If anyone would like to run their own experiment of their "state bar" I can feed you a few simple questions to ask and very little research material and allow you to see how you are treated for facing the back of the elevator.


~HTR~