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?

I had an example at the weekend. At a cafe in a posh garden centre type place. V long queue carrying hot soup on a tray and the snooty woman in front of me decided the point when she reached the front was the time to pick a crazy argument with the cashier and the man who'd been in front of her.
I waded right in and told her how unreasonable she was. She spluttered at me that "I don't need you getting involved, thank you." And then said I was "obviously as rude as they were." I laughed and said "obviously I am." It was great. We need to challenge this shit.

Isn't this as a result of Thatcher breaking down society and the 'me' generation (consumerism selfishness - wanting to do well at the expense of others) taking its place. Sad. Much less common decency and togetherness.

Jeez not sure we can even blame Maggie for poor manners.

No, but that does seem to be when the me generation started.

Wrt older people I think that's down to expecting younger people to be rude and getting in their first.

And I certainly don't mean all older people as I would be referring to any entire other group.

Wouldn't I mean

You know there's never been a 'golden age' where people were helpful, happy and prosperous?

Im currently totally getting this post. I am currently at Butlins with my 4year old. We get treated to this by nanny and grandad every year. I see so many different parents and children here. This week is tots week, so it's all for the tots, but my goodness it doesn't half show just how varied parenting styles are. We've got a family above us that as I'm writing this at 22.46, think it's okay to let their children bounce and jump off beds, open and slam drawers again and again, and generally have no regard for the fact that other people may think it's quite late! I can hear the outside doors opening and closing so I'm guessing that the parents may be in and out for a smoke. Its not disturbing my DS sleeping, but yet I'm still terribly angered by it because I know if we had been above a family I would be telling my son to be quiet (although he wouldn't be jumping on and off beds, or making any other repetitive noises with the furniture).
I do find that entitled people are the ones that have had alot of things given to them on a plate or have been brought up to think they are better than everyone else. It's okay to be confident and why not want to do better in life, bit it's being taught about caring for others.

We have a few people in the family like this. They try to be nice, caring people but they can't quite manage it all of the time because they always end up falling back into their entitled ways.
Saying that I see families here that maybe don't have everything, or could have struggled in life but still don't have compassion for other people. Sometimes I wonder if it's also an intellectual thing. Not always, like not all rich/spoilt people are entitled too, but I genuinely think that on occasion people I have tried to make see there error of their ways for things just don't have the intelligence to think bigger. I often hear 'I didn't realise, I didn't think, I hadn't thought about it like that or I didn't realise jumping on beds at past 10pm would be an issue".
That's my take anyway. Back to the op story... LOVE IT. I would be laughing so hard and thanking karma all the way.
If ever I feel angry I go on YouTube and look up 'instant karma'. It's worth a look for you guys that feel like some people don't always get their cumuppance.

Yes, absolutely agree with OP, I work in hospitality and have sometimes been totally flabbergasted by some people's sense of entitlement, problem is even as a manager, trying to stand up to people like that results in higher management back peddling on your decision (general manager, MD, owner etc) and doing anything to avoid bad press - some people take full advantage of this and unless you want a flame on every media going, you bend over and take it. It's not right but in most businesses it's policy, oh there are rude staff don't get me wrong but tbh I think rude, entitled tw*t customers are far more common, knowing they're going to get away with it as there are no consequences.
And that seems to be the root of the problem in general, bad behavior doesn't seem to have the consequences it used to. Louder you shout the more you get.
Meh, maybe I'm just old!

Janiston - most people going to the doctors have a genuine reason to be there; it doesn't exempt them from parking regulations! What about the needs of the drivers of the cars who were blocked in?

problem is even as a manager, trying to stand up to people like that results in higher management back peddling on your decision (general manager, MD, owner etc) and doing anything to avoid bad press

yes - do readers of this thread remember Sainsburys mobilephonegate a couple of years ago - a sales assistant asked a customer to terminate her call before she would serve her. Sainsburys apologised to the rude customer - they got a lot of flak from people on social media who backed the sales assistant (rightly, in my view). There were people saying "well she might have been on a really important call" - fine, then you leave the queue and let other people be served until you've finished the call.

I work evenings in a shop, and whilst I was putting cigarettes away I turned and noticed a woman with a 3/4 year old come up to the till. At this point I dropped the cigarettes and bent down to pick them up, before going to serve her. She tutted really loudly, then said 'can you hurry up and serve me, my child needs to go to bed' It was 9.45pm! I very calmly pointed out that she saw me drop the cigarettes, was only picked them up before serving her' She humphed and proceeded to ask for cigarettes! She so desperately needed cigarettes, that she brought her small daughter out at that time, and it was my fault her daughter was late going to bed🙄
I blame parents who never say no to their children, and don't teach them manners. I don't think it's just one generation or class

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

And it's parenting like this that makes entitled people.
'Mummy says I can go first and the other child crying just needs to man up'.

I laughed when I saw that the HT of DC's school had put a note in the school newsletter recently reminding parents "not to park in the disabled spaces in the car park unless they are entitled" Somehow, I don't think that is going to have much effect as at least 50% of the parents consider themselves to be extremely entitled when it comes to parking at school!

Ivy the DD who got beaten to the swing has a disability not because she was brought up to be entitled.

I've got one, I was buying a DVD in CEX one afternoon and was next in the queue. Before I could get to the till, a man holding a MacBook laptop (hoping to sell it) pushed in front of me. I was fuming but when said man stormed out with his laptop because he was told they couldn't buy it from him.

I then realised that karma had bitten him on the backside at that point.

YANU
We got blocked in our drive yesterday by some stupid cow on her phone.
Dh asked her politely to move and she said No. Because her phone call was more important than us getting out of her drive apparently!
Until I started having a hissy fit and saying to Dh loudly that our 4 x 4 could just ram her and her bloody phone out of the way.
Then she moved....

I know Hunter.
I was pointing out that the parent who is saying 'your child needs to get some resilience' is the one who is going to produce entitled children .

This brings to mind an incident that happened to me a couple of years ago. I had taken my DGD to London to go on the London Eye as someone had very kindly given me 2 tickets that they were unable to use. By the time we arrived we both needed the loo so went inside where the toilets were. There were only 2 toilets and there were 6 people in front of us waiting to use them. We stood and waited until eventually after about 10 minutes we were next. Just as the woman in front of us came out and we moved forward to go in,another woman suddenly barged in front of us announcing 'Must dash! Sorry won't be a minute,I'm due on the London Eye in 5 minutes' and marched into the toilet. I was speechless at her rudeness and sense of entitlement. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to pull her up about it as the other toilet became free a minute later and she had gone by the time we came back out.

If they had a particularly obnoxious caller then they would put them on loud speaker. And yes, if you are on hold we can hear you.

Oh that's embarrassing. I was on hold with my bank for ages longer than I expected so when my mum arrives I started telling her about my babies antics with my breasts while I'm trying to breastfeed.

I have been nudged out of the seat I was lowering my heavy 9 month pregnant body into by a business woman. Made me nearly burst into tears. I went flying and was shook up.

I hate people who despite knowing it's not their right of way and seeing you coming along the road, will try to swing put anyway and then kick off.

Starting to put my food on the belt in aldi and someone comes right up behind me and starts unloading theirs. Despite seeing the small space and a massive shopping trolley. Then when told not to by the supermarket staff they claim they only have a few (still half a trolley) so should go first!