I am always amazed at how people act when they are in large groups.<\/p>\n
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You see, I like to observe people.\u00a0 Recently, I was at a graduation ceremony.\u00a0 I was amazed at the lack of social decorum.\u00a0 Here we are at an exercise designed to honor the senior class of said school and in the middle of the “Senior Roll Call,” we have parents and other relatives getting up and leaving.\u00a0 All I could think to myself was how rude it was that people would actually walk out while the senior class was being honored just because their student relative’s name had already been called.\u00a0 That to me is socially unacceptable, not to mention selfish.\u00a0 These relatives just missed the end of the ceremony where the students were actually pronounced as graduates.\u00a0 I hate to inform people, but seniors are not graduates until that moment.\u00a0 Please don’t misunderstand me, I am not saying that these people’s children aren’t important or anything else, but because of the lack of social decorum, others may or may not have seen their relative cross the stage because someone was walking in front of them.\u00a0 I can only hope that if those same people who walked out on that incident are not on the other side of the coin during another graduation.\u00a0 These will be the same people who make a big scene about the whole thing.\u00a0 My advice, sit down, watch the entire ceremony and deal with it.\u00a0 You will eventually get out of there just like everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am always amazed at how people act when they are in large groups.<\/p>\n
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