I just don’t understand why people argue, at least a majority of the time. When I say argue, I don’t mean argue over a worthy topic but more like argue for the sake of arguing. And by that, I mean people wasting their lives fighting about their opinion over a dumb topic.
This issue was brought about to me over the weekend with my father, who seem to be pretty much the same people in terms of the way they think. My father isn’t too familiar with technology these days because well…he’s old for one thing and for another, he’s not from here. My dad came to America from Guyana when he was about 20 years old, and back then, life wasn’t as tech savvy as it is today. He obviously hasn’t adapted to today’s lifestyle and really isn’t the type of person who can, but tries to.
Well anyway, here’s the situation. The other day, we all decided to go out to a restaurant that we haven’t been to before, where he decides he’s gonna find a route through the GPS. He starts ranting about how I gave him the wrong address because the GPS wouldn’t pick it up. So when I finally got it from him to fix it, I see that instead of writing “Corporate” he typed “c0rp0rate.” Yes, that is “Corporate” with zero’s instead of the letter “o.” Then on the way their, the GPS decided to give us some crazy route which seemed like it wasn’t going to to right place. He claimed that I must have screwed up the address and messed everything up, which is why we were where we were.
His arguing with me went on for a good 10 minutes, saying things like I gave him the wrong address, I put in the wrong address or something like that. And in the end, I showed him I did everything right and the only way something would have gone wrong would be if he screwed up the previous information entered into the GPS. And what happens after that? He argues with me for not correcting his mistake.
So this entire rant and argument over such a small and insignificant deal. Mainly because someone didn’t want to admit they did something wrong. What is wrong with people these days?