America: Home of the Not so Courteous

Imagine you are at your local Wawa, Seven Eleven, or your local corner store when you notice two women are having trouble with their vehicle. Will you help, or will you walk away? It seems like the courteousness or just niceness of Americans has been lost.

A young lady's car broke down at a gas station and luckily another lady that she knew stopped at the same gas station. Unfortunately the two women would not be able to push the car themselves. They needed assistance. They saw a young man who looked like he could be a college student. They asked for his help. The young mad agreed to help them when he can back from taking care of what he needed at the gas station. The ladies waited glad that he had agreed to help them, but to there despair when he came out of the store he hopped into his car and left either forgetting about them or just getting away from them. They asked another man for his help and were surprised to hear a grown man say that he would love to help them out, but he could hurt in the process and then he wouldn't be able to work. A person did eventually help the two ladies, but what has happened to the once courteous, America?
The event described above occurred in Dover, the capital of Delaware. It is a small city surrounded by farms and Amish country, yet in a place where everybody pretty much knows everybody people have lost that neighborly charm. I spent my whole life in Dover, except for my time in college, and we weren't afraid to keep our doors unlocked all night, now we lock our doors at the sight of a stranger. Regardless of the changes in a small town, in America overall courteous is gone. Hollywood would show a woman showing her leg to get a car to pull over; now the chance of a car pulling over is zero. The likelihood that a lady would even get in the car with a stranger is at zero.

There maybe kind and super nice people in the world, but with reports of murders, robberies, and abductions, Americans are becoming numb to each other and people wouldn't give two stranded people a second thought. My mother is a very kind person and there was a time when if she saw someone in the rain she would pick them up and give them a ride. Now like many she thinks to herself, I really wish I could give that person a ride, but I do not know them.

Americans will probably never be able to get back the trust that we use to have in a neighbor or in a stranger who needs help or who is offering help and it is sad that it has come to a point in America that we are afraid of each other even living in the same communities and we are unable to give each other a helping hand.