Today, as I was out shopping, I spied a man picking his nose. I wanted to go over and ask him to pick me a winner, but I held myself back. A little while later I was stopped at a light and the man to my left spit out his window. I was happy my window was closed because I know I would have been hit. UGH! Gross! Then to top off the day a woman almost knocks me over and just keeps on walking as if nothing had happened.
What has happened to manners and common decency? Perhaps like the alligator and the bald eagle people who display manners and courtesy should be placed on the endangered species list and protected by law.
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You hit the nail on the head with this one! People live today as if there is nobody watching. They use their cell phones everywhere. I was in the bathroom at the gym the other day and a lady walked in talking on her phone, went into a stall, urinated all while talking on the phone. Does she think the people on the other end of the line can't hear her pee?
ReplyDeleteI hate spitting! I raised three boys and to this day they never saw me spit yet that is what boys do. Yuk! My granddaughter, who is only two, came up to me the other day and said she needed some chocolate chips because "I just ate a bugger". Now that is cute, but watching adults pick their nose in public isn't. While living in San Diego I experienced culture shock, now mind you in my own country, but there is a large Asian population. Many of them hold one nostril while blowing mucous out the other nostril onto the sidewalk...talk about gross! It makes me sick to my stomach just remembering it.
It all goes back to family. Children have to be taught manners from the start. They need to use words like please and thank you with the key being modeling from the parents. If the parents don't use manners around the children they won't learn the importance of using them much less when to use them. Once the media gets hold of the kids we are fighting a hard battle. Cartoons use inapproriate words that our children now think are okay to use. You have to monitor your children or they will turn into Sponge Bob Square Pants or something worse.
We have pocket words at our house. Those are words we hear other people say but we keep them in our pockets because they aren't nice to say.
So with all that being said, thank you for bringing this to our attention and please keep up the good posts! From one good mannered lady to another.