I miss drive-in movies, walking a person up to a gate to say good bye before they took off for a flight at the airport. Saying Merry Christmas because it might offend someone. I miss - having my car door opened by a gentleman or hearing that I look nice at work because, someone might say It's sexually offensive...Here's one...parking in a parking lot and being able to open my door without hitting the TANK parked beside me. What the heck happened to us? Did we just get greedy, selfish and uncaring...or all the above?
2006-08-16 12:21:57 · 17 answers · asked by ? 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
I think a lot people feel as you do. Unfortunately yes, American society has become impatient, self-centered, discourteous, and self-absorbed. Cellphones, monster SUVs, and electionic communications have made it far too easy to be isolated and anonymous. Lawsuits run amok can be thanked for people withdrawing from saying and doing certain things as well.
2006-08-16 12:29:57 · answer #1 · answered by Joe D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh man, I could've written this myself. All of the above, dude, all of the above. The Merry Christmas one especially. I don't even get offended when a Christian says they will pray for me because I know they mean me well. I'm actually grateful they're willing to take time out and think of me. I'm referring to friends and family and stuff.
You know what else I miss? The day when the janitor went on the roof of the school and threw all the tennis balls off. That was so much fun! Nowadays kids are too caught up with gameboys, cell phones, Tama-whatsits, and MP3 players to be bothered playing a simple game of catch. I also miss the days when kids didn't swear at grown-ups.
2006-08-16 12:30:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"All of the above" is the Perfect Answer. Give yourself 20 points for that one. You know, I remember when I took a woman to some presentation by some author at a university auditorium almost 20 years ago, and when we left, and got outside and started walking to our car, I noticed that she was a bit cold, since it was in the late Fall or very early Winter here in northeast Texas, and without hesitation I took off my suit coat and placed it very gentlemanly around her shoulders and pressed it gently to her arms to make her feel warm, and someone behind us said out loud for us to hear, "Ah, chivalry isn't dead." That made me so angry because what I did for my "date" was what my dad taught me to do decades earlier, and it wasn't "chivalry" or anything worthy of a label. It was just what you did when you were with a woman who was a bit cold and you had your suit or sport coat on. Where did all that loveliness go such that someone had to, in my mind rudely interject, "Chivalry isn't dead". I guess it went the way of everybody's "rights", and SUV's, and "mini"vans, etc.. I remember I took the same woman to a Mexican restaurant a while later, and the young man who was showing us to a table, asked, "Are ya'll married?" It was then that I first realized that I really loved that woman, and I loved his comment. I recall I said something like, "No, but that sounds good." And I never married her, and didn't even ask her. I guess I thought she was so lovely that I forgot you're supposed to DO SOMETHING to carry a relationship further. She married an older and richer man, and I miss her very much, for one reason was that she automatically drew out in me the manners or whatever it was that my dad taught me decades ago. I really hope she's happy. I am happily married now to a different woman, but I love recalling those lovely moments. Thanks immensely for those memories. God Bless you.
2006-08-16 12:42:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I miss not locking my door when I run in to pay for gas, I miss taking a walk alone. I miss seeing and hearing kids running around barefoot. I miss going to the corner hardware store instead of Home Depot; I miss being able to do all my errands at small businesses within walking distance of my house. I miss getting to know the neighbors.
2006-08-16 12:31:57 · answer #4 · answered by Rosasharn 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Merry Christmas!!
2006-08-16 12:28:35 · answer #5 · answered by 1K 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of the above.
I miss greeting strangers on the street.
Halloween candy which didn't need to be Xray'd
I miss knowing my neighbors like part of the family.
Paying 29¢ for a gallon of gas.
2006-08-16 12:27:46 · answer #6 · answered by Marvinator 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Agree with you there but you know it's our own fault. We are so busy trying take of our responsibilities, that we have lost sight of teaching our children common courtesy. I am guilty of this myself. I have very good manners, but my children do not. Yes it is very upsetting to me but my circumstances have alot to do with it. It would be great if we lived in a world where old school rules applied but just not so. Maybe a wake up call in the way of education? Who knows?
2006-08-16 12:46:11 · answer #7 · answered by BRITCOURT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we just got so caught up in the conveniences of modern society that we lost sight of what really matters. All of the riches in life, can never replace that safe, homey, family, respect for life feeling we used to know.
2006-08-16 12:27:58 · answer #8 · answered by onejazzyjul 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all of the above, we all change with time, and so did america, look at us in the past, we had no cars and stuff like we have today, heck we ouhgt to have tri pods coming up instead od ipods, we have just got to grin and bare it, go with the flow!
2006-08-16 12:39:13 · answer #9 · answered by Lor-the-Giraffe 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I couldn't agree with you more. We have become very selfish and greedy. We fail to see what we a causing to happen to our planet.
2006-08-16 12:29:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋