I’m trying to learn here!!
So, I’m sitting in National Boards Assembly, and three girls behind me are having a conversation. They aren’t even whispering. No! That would be too difficult to hear, so instead they talk and laugh loudly over the professor. And no, I was not sitting in the back of the classroom, where the vast majority of students are doing their own thing. I am in the front, close to the wall so I can plug in, and I cannot hear the professor over their rudeness.
I tried to tune them out, but it wasn’t working. I can tune children out quite well when I want, but that is when I’m trying not to hear anything…not an important lecture about a test that dictates my future success in chiropractic. Eventually, I turned around and asked a girl who was formerly in the conversation if she would mind asking the girls behind her to please be quiet, because I am having a hard time hearing. She said, “What?” and I assume this is because she couldn’t hear my whispering plea. I repeated myself, and she shook her head up and down, indicating she’d help me out.
Instead, she laughed. Yes, she LAUGHED! Then her friend behind her asked if I was talking about them. I guess I was the butt of their joke, because they just kept on talking and laughing like I hadn’t said anything at all. So I turned around, and whispered a little louder, I said, “Please! I really AM having a hard time hearing.” More rudeness continued.
We had 25 minutes left of class, and I SERIOUSLY came THIS close to standing up and YELLING at the girls to either please take their conversation OUT of the room or to SHUT UP because many of us are trying to LEARN! But I didn’t. Instead, I felt my blood pressure rise, and tried to better lip read and make out what was being said in conjunction with the slides. Annoying. I go to school with children. Worse. MY children behave better than these people.
So here is my rant, and please listen closely, because next time I will NOT sit by and let you disrupt my learning, which I pay a boatload of money for: Didn’t your mother raise you to respect your elders? Didn’t you learn to give your teachers respect in the classroom, and at least leave if you are going to talk? Or pass notes, the old fashioned way? Didn’t anyone tell you to respect others? Didn’t anyone to teach you the freaking Golden Rule? Treat others how you would like to be treated?
Next time you try to have some ridiculous conversation IN CLASS while the rest of us are trying to learn, I am going to take it upon myself to stand up and LOUDLY…in your face…ask you to either SHUT UP…or LEAVE! If you are lucky enough to have me use my usual manners, and ask quietly first, be like Nike…and just do it.
