People behaving badly....

[Pascor]

I probably shouldn't be, but I'm actually stunned at how people can behave, in public. It seems to be worse than ever.

Yesterday I went to the cinema with my two children. There was a large family group in front of us, in the front row. They talked, loudly. They stood up, in front of the screen, and moved between seats. Two of the children, aged around 9 or 10 were lying on their backs with their feet up in the air, and they were throwing bottles of pop up and down. One of them was on his phone, with the light blaring. They had a child too young for the cinema, who was running around, crying and shouting. They did not remove him .

After all this, just when we thought they couldn't be much worse, they put Peppa Pig on a phone for the young child, WITH THE SOUND UP! In a cinema!

After we left, we went to a supermarket, one with a help yourself bakery. The family group next to us, the adults were choosing bread, while two of their young kids were picking up bread rolls etc and putting them down again. One of them picked up a loaf and bit it, before putting it back, another kid licked a donut. The parents saw all of this and did nothing at all, not even to say stop it.

In another aisle, a woman knocked something of a shelf and it spatter all over the floor. She just walked off, no attempt to clean it up or go look for someone to attend to it. Just sauntered off and carried on shopping.

All of this in a couple of hours....I went home appalled and disgusted and rather misanthropic.

AIBU? Is this a normal way to behave now? It seems very common.

People can be disgusting and lazy. Unfortunately their children will see this as normal and just carry on with the same behaviour.

Yep, that's life now in the UK. If you 'judge' people for such behaviour you're up yourself. It's a race to the bottom.

I don't witness this behaviour often to be honest and if I do the people are obvious scrotes, best avoided.

I've certainly noticed more and more poor behaviour in cinemas and restaurants recently. Chatting, using their phones etc.
On another note I've noticed more and more people don't say excuse me please when wanting to get past you, but shove through and then say sorry. I wish I understood what was going on there.

There's a lot of lazy parenting going on. And parents who wont say "No" to their little darlings. Drives me nuts.

I often wonder if people actually realise they are behaving badly. Or do they know and not care? There might always be a bit of a fine line in the middle, but not with examples like this.

Yes this is exactly what people are like now. If you challenge them on the kids behind their response is always “they are SEN”.

this is why I’m never shocked when I hear stories of horrible patients in hospital and everyone tries to excuse them by saying they must have mental health issues! No, it’s just the way people are these days.

I would have complained to the cinema manager about the behaviour.
The behaviour in the help yourself is the reason why only I buy wrapped goods unless its fruit and veg that can be washed

Unfortunately most people are feral dickheads.

I could only find a couple of bored teenagers on the snack counter, they didn't know where the manager was!

We went ten pin bowling yesterday which is a big treat for birthdays as so expensive.

Halfway through our game about 8 lads about 12 turned up and were a right pain. They were on our side constantly hindering our play and barely moved when asked. They were majorly gobby and then decided it was a great plan to send 6 balls at a time down the alley. Meanwhile the adults with them just sat behind drinking and ignoring the fact that we had to speak with them every 2 minutes.

The parents obviously has the same selfish entitlement the kids had. Was a bit surprised that no staff spoke with them about their style of play as presumably it can damage the mechanism.

I imagine staff don't say anything because they aren't paid enough to most likely be insulted or worse have to deal with physical violence.

It's difficult when you come across people who prioritise their individual wants( could be needs in some circumstances) over those of the majority. It's difficult to negotiate accepting marginalised people and families and the societal benefit of " showing disapproval " to people behaving in a way that we think inappropriate for the benefit of all. We don't want to "shame" a struggling person, so we let slide others who behave in a similar manner.
I think that we tend to notice what we deem inappropriate behaviour over those that behaviour in a similar way to us, although this goes both ways. The people you are talking about most probably don't consider their behaviour inappropriate, to them it's normal.

Bog... You are no doubt right which is why I didn't bother the staff about the little gits.

It's sad though. The fact is that the customer is always right bollocks is still strong for lots of places. Then the staff are in fear of losing their jobs or being attacked once they've finished work.
It really is shit that some people are just born and bred arseholes.

I could only find a couple of bored teenagers on the snack counter, they didn't know where the manager was!

My DS is one of those bored teenagers, he would've gone in and told them to behave themselves or he would throw them out. He often has to do this, sometimes having to call security if him and his colleagues can't manage it themselves. You could also have asked for your money back.
Some people have no respect and it seems to be getting worse.