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Gilda, you should definitely write a book about your life, there are so many amusing characters in your day-to-day living! You also write very well.
So, about that drive-through bank teller...you should move here I have never seen one of those in my life! Well not true, they use them at the hypermarket here. When I want to deposit a cheque on a weekend, I use the ATM. It puts out an envelope and I put the cheque inside, and on the screen it asks me what I'm depositing and stuff, then I put the envelope in the slot and voilá.
The asshole who yelled at you...I thik you were just unlucky. Next time (if there is one), tell him calmly that it IS your first time and can he go back to his car before you decide to smack him!
I understand how you feel because I too am an introvert and there are things that bother/ fluster me that might not bother other people. I have learned on occasion to respond to rude replies from people when I point out that they are bothering me.
One recent example I have is that recently, I have noticed that most people in this city (Lisbon) seem to have lost all grasp of the concept of personal space. I like my personal space, even in a public location. I still think I am entitled to it, as is everyone else.
The other day I was in a small queue to pay for gas at a gas station, and it was my turn to pay. I got to the front and I payed the gas, and was leaning against the counter. As I stepped back, maybe about an inch, there was a man right there on my back! I don't know if anyone else feels this way but that for me was a total invasion. I quickly moved back forward then attempted to step back again, and the guy was still there! So I decided to push back a little, to which the guy did not respond, so I felt I had no choice but to turn and say "excuse me, do you mind moving away a bit, you're right against me and I don't know you".
Of course, the guy decided it was a good moment to be rude: "No one's leaning against you, what do you want, who do you think you are..." to which I replied (and I'm pretty sure I was met with aprooval form a few other people queueing) " look I'm sorry but there's no need to be rude, I don't know you and you were literally on me, you obviously have no education" and walked off, huffing of course.
Am I paranoid? Maybe. But I don't think it was always like this and people seem to have less and less manners.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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