Mind Your Own Business

Can I Help You

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Do you like people butting into what you think is your business? Busybodies, the ones who always know exactly what you are doing wrong and proceed to tell you how you should do it. The correct way. Their way. Mind your own dang business. 

How about those people who come up to you while you are looking for something at the store. Oh that brand isn’t any good, let me show you what you should buy. Please mind your own business. If I would have wanted your unsolicited advice, I would have asked for it. 

Nosey Co-Workers

Or especially at work. Here, this is the way you should be doing it. The busybody showing you knows all the correct procedures and how to go about doing it the best way. Their way. Everyone has their own way of doing things after they have established the ground rules. Basically you know what you are doing but are still relatively new at the job. The ones that have been there longer live to put in their two cents, don’t they? I see the way you are doing it but let me show you how I do it. I think you’ll find it easier and more efficient. Butt out, mind your own business. 

Are these well meaning people? Perhaps they are. Most likely they are people who feel since they have been there longer they know more (about everything) than you do. 

I’ve run across a few of these types of people in the workplace. I just listen to what they have to say and when they leave I continue doing things the way I feel they should be done. Is that called not listening, not taking advice? I don’t believe so. If I watch them and say, oh ok, yes that makes sense then I’d change what I’ve been doing. Because the way they presented it makes sense to me and would be more efficient. If they are just a know it all, smug, nosey co-worker who doesn’t know how to stay out of other people's business then I pay them no mind. 

Rude People

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What about the person who comes up to you when you are putting air in your tires? I had a guy come up to me when I worked in law enforcement telling me I should be ashamed of purchasing a vehicle that wasn’t made in the United States. I had a Mitsubishi at the time. He was an older gentleman. I took that into consideration and didn’t snap back at him like I wanted to. I just said, I’m sorry you feel that way sir, got into my car and drove off. Was he well meaning? No he was just an ornery old man who saw me and decided he would take advantage of the situation. Mind your own business. 

If more people would take my advice and mind their own business this world would be a much nicer place. Some people cannot do that. They need to stick their nose in. I believe it makes them feel better about themselves. Unhappy people who have to make someone else’s life miserable because theirs is. 

Meddling in the affairs of others is what makes these types of people come alive. Perhaps because they have no life of their own. They probe, they pry, they snoop, trying to dig up anything they can on you. Especially if you do not heed their advice. They will turn on you in a fast fashion and muck up your life.

Leave Me Alone

I prefer to be uninvolved. I care not what the heck the other person is doing. Especially at work. Unless it affects me in some way. I’m good on my own. I do my own thing, I get the job done. Stop trying to tell me what to do. Especially if you are not my boss, or lead staff. Just a co-worker who likes to butt into anyone’s business. Leave me out of it, and leave me alone. Go make somebody else miserable. 

Troublemakers, rubberneckers, snoops. Whatever name you’d like to give them. They are alive and surround us anywhere we choose to go. Just ignore, walk away, do not engage. Your life will be much smoother. You will breathe freely, not be overly stressed out, and you will enjoy your day.

Mind your own business. You’ll live longer.

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