I am sitting here doing some web surfing and thinking, and I find it so sad how much society as a whole has lost its class or respectability. Since I am posting this on a game site, I will start with what I found yesterday with gaming...

If you are bored, go on YouTube and do a search of "The Pro Xbox Live". You will find a clip or two of "The Pro" who is a moderator for Xbox enforcing temporary gold bans on a couple of players who was violating the ToS while playing MW2. One was a kid, who is said to be about 12 who is swearing up a storm with MFing and talking about doing bad inappropriate things to the moderators grandmother, etc. Both this kid and the guy making the video are using hacks to cheat in the game and getting an obvious unfair advantage. Anyway, getting to the point, they acted terribly and unfortunately this type of thing is becoming so common in online gaming and to a certain degree the Internet as a whole. Why are people at a point that they feel so entitled, and think it is fair to act this way to others? Sure, I have talked a little smack while gaming, but I do so in a fun playful way, and I never use profanities or do anything to offend someone. If it seems like I am, I will apologize and stop. And the whole cheating thing.... How is that fun or gratifying? It can't feel great to be a cheater... and also ruin the experience for others..

Moving to an actual personal thing, last Saturday, I was involved in a car accident. I was waiting behind two cars in the left hand lane of a two way road, with the front car waiting on traffic to turn left. Well, it was close to an intersection, and I guess the car coming up behind me wasn't watching the road, and was probably trying to get through the light, and she rear ended me very hard. I would guess going 30 to 40 mph. Anyway, the force obviously then slammed me into the car in front of me. Once this happened, the girl in the car in front of me jumps out and starts calling me a gd mfer and going all crazy. I tell her it isn't my fault and to look behind me, and upon doing so she then proceeds to run to the car behind me and does the same thing again. The sad part is I was in a huge car that was my mother in laws, so I was ok. The car that hit me was a really small car, and it was crushed very badly, and it was obvious that the driver and passenger was badly hurt. Airbags deployed, painful sounds, etc. The whole front of the car was pretty much flat. And this woman was running screaming profanity at them... I understand people get upset, but this was ridiculous. Anyway, a while after the people who needed it were taken care of, I see this girl being put on a stretcher and carted off. If she was so hurt, why was she running around doing this? I took way more of the impact than she did, and I was okay. I just don't understand it. She acted inappropriately to some hurt people, and then it looked like she was then going to take advantage of the situation. I bet she tries to milk them or their insurance company...

This post is going on longer than I intended, so I will try to keep this last one short. There is a video out there of a basketball game between the Idaho Vandals and Utah State Aggies. Its towards the end of a close game, and the Idaho player goes to the free throw line. An opposing fan is sitting court-side almost in front of the basket, and proceeds to strip down to his underwear, climbs up on his seat and gyrates in front of the player and makes him miss. I would be lying if I didn't admit it is mildly funny, but again, that is so classless and inappropriate... And what about people with families there?

Maybe I am turning into an old man, but I just hate that things like the three examples above have become so commonplace. Why don't people have a little dignity and why don't they treat others with a little thought and respect? Ok, I will get off my soapbox now, but this has been a bad week, and I just felt like sharing this on here...