Are people becoming less polite and friendly

[Orangeblossom78]

Out in town today picking up some shopping in M&S, quiet, no need to stress, plenty of room for people to shop, maybe ten people in the whole shop.

First a man in a mask in an aisle, made a huge fuss of jumping nd kind of scuttling away from me, no 'excuse me' or anything or reason as plenty of room

Then going out, they have two ways out open and stopped to let another lady go first. I said "Please go ahead, after you" and smiled. She just kind of looked at me as if I was mad and rushed by.

is it just me or are people just not being friendly and polite any more? I know people are worried- we all are. But people are still human and there is no need to be rude.

I just wondered what others experiences are or maybe it is just where I like. A friend in the Netherlands said, while social distancing they tend to greet each other in passing with a smile and a 'morgan' (morning) I think the expression was.

Not at all, it was some study done in the paper (cut and paste!) you were quite right. I think most on MN are in the first 3 groups perhaps. Me too apart from the odd urge to run after people (at a distance) pretending to chase them when they behave so rudely