power trips and the simple words of life

Something I don't understand is why special requests made by you and me are completely ignored by those people. Are they 'just having a bad day' or tripping hard over some power they just encountered? Do they not like my hair or what about the style of my clothes? Maybe they just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and they'll be better tomorrow. Well whatever it is, I'm sick of it. I'm encountering them today, not tomorrow. Today should be the happiest day of their life because they get to deal with me. It shouldn't be the worst day of my life because I have to deal with them and their power trip.

If I want paper bags for my groceries, give me all paper bags and not just one for the bag of chips while you put the milk and gatorade (and every other heavy grocery item) in the next 3 plastic bags. No (general manager of tanning salon) I do not want to buy the latest and greatest tanning lotion for my tanning package that you overpriced me on anyways. I understand there is a trainee standing next to you every time I come it but you must pay to use me as a guinea pig for training your new employees. If I request to have Sunday morning off, with a legit reason, every time the schedule request comes out since I had started working for your fine establishment(manager of workplace) then why do you never fail to schedule me for the Sunday morning shift and forget to schedule me the rest of the week??

I guess its the simple things in life that are more commonly being overlooked. 

Simple things being the words "no" "yes" "please" and "thank you". 

When I say no, that doesn't mean 'please overlook what I'm saying and think to yourself that I want to continue hearing your sales pitch'. 

When I say yes, that means 'don't assume that I am another tree hugging hippie that is okay with my plastic bags stretching and spilling my groceries out for everyone to see so that I can save a tree'. 

If I say please, that means I am politely asking you to schedule me on any other of the 13 shifts during the week than Sunday morning. 

There are over 40 employees to choose from that requested that day TO work, give them a chance for once will ya?

 and through all of this, If I don't say thank you then I am considered a rude and selfish individual. young and inconsiderate to all, rampaging through life with no direction.

if I don't thank these people for the sacrifices they have made and the troubles they have endured to get to where they are now then I am the one in the wrong. even though they have just ignored every polite request I have just made to them, and have gone through the trouble of ignoring their rude actions to stay civil in this uncivilized situation. 

even though they are wrong and i am right 

i am young and they are old

it is to early to win this fight

they can't just sit there and be told

just whose wrong and just whose right

its seems this statement tis too bold

so will continue this ageless fight.