I was in a coffee shop yesterday evening and two children (aged about 8 or 9) were tearing around the place, banging against people's chairs, running in and out the door to the garden causing huge gusts of freezing air to blow through the place, and generally being a nuisance while their mums sat sipping coffee and ignoring them.
I was driving through a one way car park system afterwards and a woman coming the wrong way refused point blank to reverse, so I had to.
This morning on the bus two schoolkids sat comfortably chatting away while various people, myself included, stood up to let two elderly women, a middle aged woman with her arm in a sling, and an elderly man sit down.
Shortly after, I was sitting in the dentist's waiting room with about 5 other people and a girl in her twenties walked in and just flung open the window without asking if anyone minded before plonking down on a chair and having a very loud conversation on her phone.
I know there was always rude people around, but all the above happened in the space of less than 24 hours.
AIBU to think that good manners seem to becoming less and less evident, and that a lot of parents don't seem to bother to teach children to show a bit of courtesy and consideration for others?
Or am I turning into a grumpy old lady?
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AIBU?
To wonder what happened to old fashioned manners?
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Daisysbear · 01/12/2015 10:50
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