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Obnoxious behavior in Bethesda
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Anonymous
| Just left Bethesda last year after 3 years of renting there. Maniacally aggressive drivers and line-cutters abounded. I thought it had to do with me being a 30-something black woman but am glad to see it was equal opportunity rudeness. |
Anonymous
| I just moved back to Bethesda and I have to say that I forgot just how rude some people are. I was crossing a parking lot on foot and a car came speeding in front of me. The woman actually rolled down her window and asked if I was planning to walk right in to her car!!! At the time, I could only laugh because it was so ridiculous. Fortunately that seemed to make her really mad. |
Anonymous
lol that made me laugh..... People in Bethesda and even Potomac are extremely rude. Definately the rich, egocentric, and entitled type. They were born with a silver spoon in their mouth and a gold one up their ass lol. Like another PP said...just goes to show that money can't buy class. |
Anonymous
| We moved to Bethesda from DC before our first daughter was born and moved back to the district shortly after her 3rd birthday. It is a beautiful place where horrrrrrrible people run rampant. |
Anonymous
Good manners have to be taught to children and the entitled 30-somethings do not think manners apply to them. The hoi poloi do not understand that "they want what they want when they want it" and the rest of us need to get out of the way |
Anonymous
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My biggest problems were with blonde white women in nice cars and expensive sunglasses in their fifties or sixties. The younger people seemed fairly normal. I guess that is why my paranoia about it being racism came to the forefront. I frequently have the impression that certain rich whites from another generation think that I have no rights that they are bound to respect, whether I was in line first or not. They assumed I was a nanny in some cases and said so. But like I said earlier, I am glad it is not that.
I loved living in Bethesda except for the people. |
Anonymous
Ditto! |
Anonymous
| I agree with the previous poster 14:57. It's really the older white women who have such a sense of entitlement in the Bethesda/Chevy Chase area. If it weren't for the great schools and our wonderful neighborhood, I'd never live here. |
Anonymous
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We got so fed up that we moved to Silver Spring.
Life is much better here. The normalcy is refreshing. |
Anonymous
| OP here again--at least these responses assure me that I was not imagining the obnoxious behavior. Bethesda has so many great amenities but I couldn't imagine being neighbors with some of these people. It just makes you wonder whether people just did not learn basic manners growing up. |
Anonymous
Seriously? Lots of young guys (the ones in red power ties) were awful in Bethesda. From not letting the elderly and handicapped use the priority seating on the metro, to driving like maniacs around people in underground garages, to chronic line butting...also is fifty year old woman considered older? And I agree with a pp who said Potomac people are also rude, they are crazy rich rude out there. |
Anonymous
I know exactly how you feel. I call it Bethesdaitis. If you're walking you bitch about the horrible drivers and just assume that crosswalks are for the little people. When you're behind the wheel you think pedestrians had better get the hell out of your way. Hell you think most rules apply to everyone but you, unless you deign to follow them. |
Anonymous
I have noticed this, but not most of the other behaviors mentioned. Not sure if that means I'm avoiding the wrong places, or am part of the problem. |
Anonymous
That's not necessarily a Bethesa trait though. I remember during my first pregnancy, NO white guy (you know, the ones in red power ties) would give up their seat to me in the metro. Didn't matter where they lived 
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Anonymous
| I think it is nice that there is a place where they can all live together, with their shared lack of manners. |