To genuinely believe people are much more ruder and 'entitled' these days?

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I may be heading down avenue 'grump old git' these days but people really piss me off recently.
For example, Dh works on the roads and they regularly get abuse from the general public, especially when it come to road closures.
Last week Dh and work mates were working on a road closure when a woman drives up to them demanding that they let her through, 'but the road is closed it says so on the board in front of you!' says Dh. 'No, no that doesn't apply to me I live on this road!' There are no houses on this road, it's a country lane used as a cut through for many.
Anyhow, Dh insists she can not get through, she argues with him, turns her steering wheel and drives right passed into road closure.
Thing is, the reason the road is closed is due to the fact there is a sodding great big hole in road which she proceeds to drive straight into getting car stuck in process
Spends the next 4 hours sulking on grass verge waiting for recovery truck!
Wtf is wrong with folk?

Titania We've had a woman wee on a sofa in the past few months because apparently she was drunk. We had to throw the sofa out so she got a bill which she has so far ignored, and it's that sort of thing that makes us wary of everyone else. Obviously we could contact the insurers but that puts up premiums so we bought another sofa which we considered was cheaper

Btw that man's name has been circulated amongst lots of other holiday let owners, so he's not getting accomadation in this town again.

Yes Zap the man who was a pain to us is older as is the woman who peed on and through the sofa

Springflowers she has severe autism and a severe learning disability.

Hence she 'had the boohoos"

Maybe you didn read that she is disabled and cant run. Or maybe you did and are rude.

Maybe you are the mum in question

Your DD stands there and boohoos because another child beat her to the swing?? She needs to develop some resilience!

What a nasty comment. I wouldn't let the brat who pushed in get away with it rather.

Dh has just come home to say the bloody woman has had the cheek to put a complaint in! Head office have sent her a 'polite' email basically telling her to go f* herself!!
MrWriter I can sympathise with you, the stories Dh comes home with I really don't think most people would believe. One of his workmates had a bottle of pee thrown over him!

springflowers
Um, LouKout's DD is severely disabled - I may be mixing her up with another poster, and if so I obviously apologise, but I think she's non-verbal & has autism. Not exactly a child where "resilience" is applicable. Regardless, when not knowing the nature of her disability, maybe leaving your "helpful" suggestion out would have been better. People with disabilities have to be incredibly resilient, but small children, in particular, often struggle with the frustration & distress of being physically limited & realising they're different from their peers. Funnily enough, that commonly manifests in tears, particularly after multiple othering incidents in close succession - which for a child who uses a wheelchair, will be a fact of going to a playground, however enjoyable they find it.

springflowers you are nasty

People have been bitching about this for aeons. As a rather tongue-in-cheek Horace said 2000 years ago:

"Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt."

Talking about "kids these days" makes you sound a bit out of touch.

(Sorry LouKout, took me ages to write that: I didn't want to leave it unchallenged, wasn't meaning to speak for you. Or indeed to make myself sound quite so daft. Well done me...)

My dh used to be the manager of a petrol station.
They had a problem with their pumps so no petrol until they had been repaired.
They put a line of cones over the entrance and a sign saying closed.
One bloke got out of his car, moved the cones out of the way and drove to a pump and stood there glaring at the shop while unsuccessfully trying to put petrol in his car!

Its ok zebra. Thanks :)

I think the mum i was talking about maybe also thought she was teaching DD resilience. She wasnt. She was teaching her own DD to overtake kids with disabilities and look out for herself only

Yes, she was teaching her to trample over others to get what she wants. Awful.

I find that pensioners tend to be the ones who push in front in queues for buses in London.

I work in a shop early mornings and most days 1 particular customer is always in a rush, usually not a problem, but 1 morning i had to shift some stuff to get in the till (literally less than 20 seconds) he said "hurry up i'm late for work) unfortunately i can't always help myself so i said to him "perhaps you should try getting up earlier". Ignorant twat.

The OP's example sounds like justice. Incidentally there will be no road works next week as it is the new financial year.

In general ruder yes, sense of entitlement as well. I blame the me, me, me attitude which began in the 1980s.

YANBU, I work in a pub restaurant and last week there was a scheduled power cut for maintenance work from 10-5 on the street. We hired a generator to use between 12-4, but the way it had to be connected meant wires ran right through the pub so manager said it wasn't worth opening to customers who may well trip up over the wires, however we used the time for staff to give the place a deep clean rather than waste the entire day.

Two women from the nearby estate tried to come mid afternoon for dinner and despite there being a great big board outside explaining why we were shut, they still tried to come in. Manager obviously went over to explain situation to them and they proceeded to shout at him about how rude he is to refuse to serve them when clearly we have lights on, and even called him a liar regarding the power cut because there estate didn't have one . They then swore never to return and to also warn all of their friends from coming to the pub, it really all felt very bizarre to witness them become so angry over a situation that we at the pub couldn't control.

Pissy sofa. Frig me. And she clearly didn't even bother to try to clean it the next morning if it was so bad it needed to be replaced. What with pissy knickers and needs a bedtime story bloke Its no wonder people offering nice homely accommodation get fed up. My friends mum does this holiday let thing and some of the complaints she has got are just baffling.

Lou, a similar thing happened to us in the park recently. My (clearly disabled) DD can't walk and weighs a ton, so I kept her in the buggy while we waited for her turn on the swing. When it was free, I started getting her out of the buggy and some bloke rushed in and put his son (who actually looked much too big for the baby swings) on the swing. And proceeded to hog it for ages and ages. Git.

Sorry it happened to you too. Hope your DD was OK

Was it springflowers kid? God I hate the 's/he's just being assertive' when kids are being little pushy sods.