We took the boys to a horse riding display/show today. There were Cossack riders doing amazing stunts and Spanish riders doing some amazing dressagey things. It was held in an indoor arena (like a big top tent) and was sold-out. At the end of the show all of the riders came out once for bows/applause etc. We were clapping away, when I noticed that peole were getting up and leaving. Some had started to leave before the riders even came out for their applause.
How rude is that? Yes, the carpark was busy, but what example does this set for children? That people who spend an afternoon entertaining you, are not worth acknowledging. I noticed, as well, that nearly all of those leaving were middle-class,Boden clad, broadsheet readers. The type of parents who regularly bend my parent governor ear at school to ask why Tarquin and Jemima aren't in the same class as the 'nice' children.
Rude, rude people. People who treat others as 'furniture.' I felt so sorry for one of the spanish riders, he was bowing to a disappearing row of people and looked confused and hurt.