Now I know I harp a lot about not liking it when someone treats me like a child, but so what, here I go again.
Do you ever find yourself surrounded by people who act as if you were either born yesterday or simply have no idea what you're doing, even though you've been doing it for years? I do.
Without calling any names I'd like to just say this; if I do something differently from the way you would do it, it doesn't make if WRONG, it just makes it DIFFERENT, so stop suggesting I change the way I do it.
Not liking the way I do something also does not make it wrong, it just makes it not the way YOU would have done it, so stop suggesting I change the way I do it.
After 23 years in the military, you would think civilians would respect you for having stood in the gap for their freedoms and trust you know what you're doing for the most part and let you be. NOT SO!
I am in no way saying that I'm right in the way I do all things. What I am saying though is, don't try to teach me in a condescending way. I am NOT a child! Speak to me with respect and in turn I just may listen to your advice or suggestions. Don't scold me like you gave birth to me. I have parents, neither of which I allow to tell me what to do or to talk to me like I'm their child again. I can often to heard telling my mom my age, as if to say, "I'm old enough to do what I want." With her, however, I remain in a tone of joking because I know, at even my age, saying the wrong thing could get me hurt. With EVERYONE else however, I mean it. I ain't your child and I don't appreciate being treated like one. Don't talk down to me like I'm stupid. The era of Roots and the "Yesir Master, is over. My name is still Kunta Kinte, not Toby. If what I am is not WRONG, Stop trying to conform me to what you would have me to be. Nuff Said! Maybe.
