How many of you out there actually SAY something to people in public places who give out any of the above? If you do, what do you say? What response do you get? Whatever happened to just sitting quietly on a bus or train or in a restaurant? Now, there are people talking and talking and talking all around you, and it seems to me nowadays that everyone is getting louder, that I have to hear conversations that are either intensely puerile or boring or intimate or vulgar, and there seems to be little that I can do to stop it all. It's really hard these days to find a quiet place. My own room is the exception.
And when I walk on the pavement in one direction, and schoolkids are coming towards me in the opposite direction, why is it that now I have to walk in the road? They stay as they are, three abreast, no thought of making way for anyone else. Is the situation with good manners now beyond saving? Must we just accept that everyone will now behave EXACTLY AS THEY PLEASE?
2007-07-14
10:15:54
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