Common Courtesy isn't so common

The other day me and the roomie came home from work and there was a girl smoking right outside our door.  Which places her right next to our air conditioner/heating unit.  So, the smoke flows right into the room.  My roommate went out and asked her to please re-locate to the designated smoking area.  Apparently, that was too much to ask.  She refused to move.  So my roommate asked her what her name and unit were.  She promptly told my roommate that it was none of her business.  This is not an acceptable answer to give when speaking to someone who outranks you.  So as to not lose her temper, my roommate just blew it off and came inside.  I am not one to let things like that slide.

So, I went outside to kindly ask her to move.  Now there were like 4 more people out there all smoking.  I explained to them that their smoke was flowing right into our room through the air conditioner and asked them if they would mind just taking a few steps away from the front of our door.  They all complied except the girl that already gave my roommate a hard time.  She still refused.  I wasn't leaving until I got her name and unit, as I told her I would be taking it up with her commander.  She finally gave me the information while screaming at me.  Again, not an acceptable thing to do to someone who out ranks you.  I decided after I got her name and unit, that was all I needed and would address the issue with her commander as there was no point in further discussion with her.  She proceeded to smoke a few more cigarettes.

The next day, both my roomie and I spoke with the commander.  The biggest shock was that she was a fellow officer, although only a second lieutenant.  I could have sworn the way she was acting that she was a private, although that's not really fair to privates.  I didn't know her rank at the time, but I knew I outranked her as I pretty much know all the female captains in the brigade and I definitely know all the female officers who outrank me, as it being the Army, the pool of female officers is usually smaller than the male counterpart.

She told her commander that me and the roommate attacked her and were screaming at her, and she didn't know who we were and thought we were NCOs.  Which is a lie, and not even a good one as we were in uniform, and last time I checked rank is displayed prominently on the uniform.  Not to mention, that at no time did we attack her, but just asked her to show a little courtesy to others.  If anybody would have asked to me to stop smoking in front of their room, I would have apologized for being such a bonehead and smoking in front of their room in the first place.  But then again, I wouldn't have had to been asked as I have enough common courtesy to not do that in the first place.  I wasn't at all surprised when the commander told me this wasn't the first problem they have had with her, and she is somewhat of a problem lieutenant.

In other news, I got a package today from Colleen and Leyla!  There was a little green man/frog thing in there that ribbits when you push down on him.  He also is a candy dispenser, which when you get the candy out it looks like he is pooping it out.  It quickly grossed out one of paralegals when I pointed that out and proceeded to then eat the piece of candy that came out of his butt.  I like the little guy and I put him right next to my Longhorns teddy bear in my office.  He makes me smile.

My little frog man