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One of the big things that really pisses me off is special treatment when it is undeserved. I can't stand it when people get treated better than others when they did nothing to earn it.
For example (and this is a totally made up, fictional example and did not happen), let's say you've been waiting to be seated at a restaurant for twenty minutes. And there's a line of others who have been there waiting even longer. Suddenly, the hostess's boyfriend comes in with his mother and they get seated right away without even having to wait five minutes! Wouldn't that bother at least a little? Just because he knew the hostess personally shouldn't mean he gets preferential treatment, should it? A situation like that calls for first come, first served, and he completely bypassed that for no good reason.
What bothers me more are the people who feel like they outright require the preferred treatment when they don't. Take like, senators and such. They get caught going 100 miles per hour in a 55 zone and they think they can just shrug it off, that there's no way they'll get a ticket. Certain government people get special license plates on their vehicles stating right off that they're "special" people, so no state trooper would DARE pull them over. If I were that trooper, you'd better believe I'd ticket them! I'd even want to increase the fine because they are an official and supposed to set an example! Officials think that they get to have special perks or preferred treatment, when I think it should be the other way! Their whole job is supposed to be about thinking about everyone else's needs and taking care of them, not how to take advantage of them! (PS- I actually do know of a former state trooper who had the audacity to pull over and ticket a state senator and it very nearly cost him his job!)
Something which happens a lot, at least where I live anyway, is special treatment for high school athletes, particularly when it comes to underage drinking and even driving while intoxicated! This outrages me to no end, seriously. A cop will pull over a weaving car, and then he finds out it's Sam Collins, the captain of the high school hockey team or sumsuch, and decides it's okay to give him a short, stern talking to and send him on his way because he's "basically a good kid." EXCUSE ME? That kid has just as much a chance of really hurting someone, maybe even killing them, as any other drunk driver, maybe even more! I think all high schoolers caught driving drunk ought to have the book thrown at them regardless of their varsity status! The fact that the kid has even been drinking AT ALL is a crime in itself, never mind having the stupidity to go out and drive afterwards! But then, I have a big problem with drunk drivers to begin with, so maybe I'm biased with this one.
Don't even get me started on "celebrities" either. Great googly moogly, when I think about people like Paris Hilton being treated like royalty without ever having anything worthwhile her entire life, it makes me want to wretch! Ms. Hilton, you're wealthy beyond what you deserve, so why not, I don't know, build a homeless shelter, donate to cancer research, make a scholarship program, ANYTHING! Why do folks in the general public hang on this useless fleshbag's every action and word when there are famous people who do awesome things with their notoriety and money (like starting AIDS research foundations and coordinating efforts to combat world hunger) rather than only buying dresses worth four thousand dollars and partying all weekend long? And yet people like this will still be the first admitted into restaurants and night clubs and offered gobs of money for television spots for no reason.
The only situation I can think of offhand where special treatment is necessary is in the emergency room. If you've been waiting to see a doctor for a half hour because you have the sniffles, you bet you ought to wait longer if a gun shot victim comes in. This is called triage, where the nurses determine who has the worst medical condition and sorts those to the head of the queue, regardless of time of admission. This what an emergency room is for, sorting out the worst for rush treatment and figuring out who can wait with the least discomfort. Wouldn't it stink if you came in with a broken leg and some guy with a migraine got to see the doctor ahead of you because he was the head nurse's cousin? That would be uncalled for preferred treatment, and it has no place in an emergency room or anywhere else, in my opinion.
William (would rather wait than be given unwarranted preferred treatment)
