Ok, I realize that this is sort of hypocritical because I can be a really really rude person, but what's happened to society and being polite to each other??? Here are some examples:
When John, Anne and I went to the Summerfest hosted by our subdivision, at every single ride, some little kid cut in line in front of us. No joke! Every single time! Come on parents, let's teach your kids some manners. This isn't limited to that one time either, last night at the Taste of Joliet, we had kids cutting in front of us again.
I've now been to 3 separate "club" meetings. One was for church-it was the Women's ministry meeting; it was my first time and I was considering joining/helping out. The other 2 were Mom's clubs meetings-again first times to consider joining. At all three of them, no one had the courteously to introduce themselves, the club, tell me anything about it! One of them I went to, I went halfway through the meeting and finally said "Um, can someone explain to me how the club works?" Yeah, I have a general idea what it is, but obviously it's my first time (and in all 3 circumstances they knew it) and I don't know everything there is to know. Isn't it common knowledge and courtesy to explain your club to me?
Those are just two that have happened recently that bug me. Don't even get me started when Anne was a baby and I'm trying to get her, the stroller, the diaper bag and myself through a door and I literally have 10 people pass me, no one offering to hold the door for me. Again, didn't just happen once-that was the norm.
What has happened to our society and manners??
When John, Anne and I went to the Summerfest hosted by our subdivision, at every single ride, some little kid cut in line in front of us. No joke! Every single time! Come on parents, let's teach your kids some manners. This isn't limited to that one time either, last night at the Taste of Joliet, we had kids cutting in front of us again.
I've now been to 3 separate "club" meetings. One was for church-it was the Women's ministry meeting; it was my first time and I was considering joining/helping out. The other 2 were Mom's clubs meetings-again first times to consider joining. At all three of them, no one had the courteously to introduce themselves, the club, tell me anything about it! One of them I went to, I went halfway through the meeting and finally said "Um, can someone explain to me how the club works?" Yeah, I have a general idea what it is, but obviously it's my first time (and in all 3 circumstances they knew it) and I don't know everything there is to know. Isn't it common knowledge and courtesy to explain your club to me?
Those are just two that have happened recently that bug me. Don't even get me started when Anne was a baby and I'm trying to get her, the stroller, the diaper bag and myself through a door and I literally have 10 people pass me, no one offering to hold the door for me. Again, didn't just happen once-that was the norm.
What has happened to our society and manners??
2 comments:
I have had that happen to me so many, many times when trying to get through a door while juggling a baby in a stroller and bags. It's technically called "diffusion of responsibility" where there are several people around and everyone thinks that someone else will help so in the end, no one does. I am much more likely to have someone else help me get a stroller through a door if there is only one other person there or if there is only one group of people, all together, where one is holding the door for the people with them and they'll see me so they feel obligated to hold the door for me while I get the stroller through too. And the cutting in line, that is very bad manners. You could nicely say to the kid, or their parent, who cut that you were in line and the line is behind you. Sometimes I feel assertive enough to say something politely, sometimes I don't.
I am always baffled by the absence of society's manners.
I like your pet peeves picture!
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