Minding our own manners?

Minding our own manners?

Yet again as I await to get on the bus this morning on my way to work, as two people were getting off, people started to get on at the same time, with the people getting off having to squeeze there way off the bus. Would it have really made that much of a difference had people just stood back in an orderly fashion to let the people get off the bus before getting on?

Or the problem of people skipping queues, be it to buy tickets for an event, or in the post office? Why the rush? It’s not as if the bus journey is going to get any quicker (Well 10 seconds quicker but come on!)

We are becoming more and more like the Yanks and it’s very frightening if you ask me, I laugh when I see someone complain about US tourists here, when in them I see the ‘Yank’ personified.

Going crazy if we end up approaching a red light at a junction, if we have to wait more than three minutes for a bus or we are waiting more than five minutes in a restaurant for some food.

We are turning more and more into a ‘Me’ generation. ‘So long as I am happy and get what I want f*ck everyone and the consequences’, would appear to be the order of the day. I am one of the minority who have had his toes stepped on one time too many, and feel the need scream ‘STOP’ as the ‘Me’ generation continue to cause havoc in their wake, as their envy goes greener, along with the desire to surpass the Jones’s, never mind keep up with them.

So we should now stand up and rail against these ignoramuses. The next time someone shoves past you getting onto a bus, forcibly tries to jump the queue in a boozer, or slams a door in your face as you are walking into a shop etc you should put them in their place as they are asking for it big time. So demand to know of them on a bus, what there problem is and what not, make them think twice before they go on ‘auto-pilot’ again.

So if you are in a queue at a bus stop and the bus comes along, take your time and orderly get on the. If a Friend is three minutes late for a meet, do not scream at them on the phone, give them about 10-15 minutes to arrive, THEN ring them, but in a calm and collective manner, to ascertain their current location and so forth. If a n old person or pregnant woman gets on the bus and there are no seats available, please give up your seat. Do not sit there looking around you all the time hoping someone will do it instead, absolving you of the moral responsibility when a good while later someone does give up their seat. When driving around a roundabout, do not cut across others, narrowly avoiding a three car pile up, and do not try and cut across people when looking for a carparking space, they got their first, accept that fact, and drive on!

All in all, if people stopped thinking solely about themselves, and sometimes took a look around and stopped to think for a second instead of running around like an enraged bull, how things would be so much better for us all!