Common Sense? Rare Commodity

[Amore55]

Does anyone else feel as though the people around them have lost their common sense? I have tried to be patient, but it appears that people are getting less and less sensible. Please tell me that I am not alone in this feeling! Love to all, Kelly 🤗🤗

[kdali]

Yup. It's weird. I know I'm not getting smarter either 🤷‍♀️

[Allen5280]

Yeah, Ive pretty much lost all my common (and not so common) senses as well... 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Sry, had to make a grand reply! Are sense of smell and taste common or uncommon senses? I 😯😣😂🤣😂😁

[Amore55 in reply to Allen5280]

Great to hear from you! 🤗🤗

[bxrmom]

Common sense is not so common anymore

[Mollyabigail in reply to bxrmom]

That's what my minister says! It is true.

[hairbrain4 in reply to bxrmom]

"Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment. Because you have to deal with everyone that doesn't have it." - George Bernard Shaw

[goatgal]

It's the heat. Brains get as scrambled as eggs on a hot pavement.

[Amore55 in reply to goatgal]

That must be the answer!

[carolek572 CommunityAmbassador]

What is common sense, Amore55 ? That’s a rhetorical question.

[NorasMom]

I've thought that for years. I was in various forms of customer service in my past life, but I was blessed for most of them to be in specialized fields with a specific customer base. Aside from the occasional looney who had to be escorted off the premises, I dealt with reasonable people. And then I started working with the general public. I felt like I was an anthropologist on field assignment and should have been sitting in the corner taking notes on what I was seeing. I cried myself to sleep for the first few weeks, and I haven't been the same ever since.

[Amore55 in reply to NorasMom]

Lol. 😂😂😂

[Sandydemop]

I think the pandemic has made everybody more tense. Nobody has any patience for each other.

[starlight5]

There's book smart and there's common sense. Unfortunately they don't always go hand in hand...

[Amore55 in reply to starlight5]

Oh, I completely agree!

[Kit10]

I agree absolutely.

I never thought I was a particularly good housekeeper but the number of things I've had to tell carers amazes me, like:

don't put wet things on wooden furniture

put the cap back on the toothpaste

use up the old ones before starting the new packet

don't leave potatoes on the worktop, put them in a cupboard or they go green

don't boil eggs in a non-stick pan, use the plain one

don't use metal tools in a non-stick pan use a wooden spoon

I feel like I'm turning into my mother talking to me when I was 5 - except I have to be polite and say pretty please like I'm asking them to humour my eccentric whims. Grrrrrrrr.

[Amore55 in reply to Kit10]

I can only imagine how much it would drive me crazy!

[MsBoo]

No, you are not alone... believe me, you are not alone..

🤗

[Amore55 in reply to MsBoo]

Thank you, it reassures me!

[Kit10 in reply to MsBoo]

... then this morning the egg cup I use every day went missing. One of the carers found it in a black bag outside the door, thrown away with the egg shell. It's got a built-in dish for putting the shell in, I've never seen one for sale like it, I've had it for 30 years. It's lucky it's bright orange or she might never have found it. That sort of thing drives me crazy.

😱🟧🥚🟧

[mrsmike9 in reply to Kit10]

I have some like that! I bought them in Germany.

[Kit10 in reply to mrsmike9]

I used to have 2, one white, one orange, plastic, oval. They were left behind by the previous occupants of the last house I lived in so I've no idea where they came from originally. The white one cracked years ago. One of my vegetable knives, that I've had since I was 17, has also disappeared. And someone went though my kitchen and threw out all the food while I was in hospital, even cans and packets that would have been OK for years. I only wanted them to get rid of meat milk and fruit,There's a few other things that no-one can find. I know it's just stuff, and worse things happen, but I wish people showed more respect for my property.

I once heard that there's a word in Japanese for when someone does you a favour and you pretend to be grateful but really you wish they hadn't. We need that word in English.

[NorasMom in reply to Kit10]

Yes, absolutely! If you find it, please let me know. My mother and daughter did that with the food a couple years ago while I was at a doctor's appointment during a really bad relapse. I had no income and was buying groceries on $20/month. I was so upset.

[Amore55 in reply to Kit10]

Of course, I had to investigate! The Japanese word is arigata-meiwaku. Translation in English is “ thank you, annoying “ or “ unwelcome favor” ! Very funny. I’m glad that I now have learned something new.

[Amore55 in reply to Amore55]

See above info.

[jorrell]

Do you mean comments like "I can't believe you think it is wrong that people are pooping on the sidewalk? You offended me!" I call these people the offended ones. Unfortunately it is more and more common... I just can't make sense of it.

[Sagesewer]

You are so not alone on this! I think God is tired of me asking him to put his hand over their mouths!🤣

[mrsmike9]

You are not alone! You have to wonder what happened to all those peoples brains!

[pamgarner]

the world has gone crazy!sometimes i feel like i am the only sane one left,scary!!

[BlanketTime1]

not a bit. i'm in georgia now and it's an absolutely terrifying place. i noticed it ratcheting up just after lockdown. millions were dying and no one wore masks! it seems like when i think it's hit bottom, i'm always wrong.😱

[Brindisi1]

I can't even begin to enumerate the various ways people have violated common sense . It is scary & costly & beyond imagination. It has nothing to do with Covid. It is the human conditionHave mercy on us.