Are People Getting Ruder

The answer in my opinion is yes. People are getting ruder. People just don't seem to care about the other person now a days. They sit in cars carrying on conversations with each other people while you sit in your car behind them waiting to get on your way. They don't say thank you if you hold the door open for them or let them out of a driveway when you could have gone on by. It's like the attitude they have is your supposed to do that for me" or "what I'm doing is more important than what you have to do so you can wait". People don't respect other people like they use to. People today have this self-importance thing going on and no one else seems to matters.

Let's take a look at some of the rude things that people do. As I mentioned earlier, I have been behind people in my car that are having a conversation with somebody either in a car in another lane or on the sidewalk and they just keep talking as if I'm not there. When I blow my horn at them they look back at me with a snarl as if I've done something wrong for wanting to get to my destination. I have held the door open for people and they walked on through and on their way like I'm the doorman at McDonalds. I've let people out of a driveway that I have seen waiting as several cars drive by. I stop, holding the other traffic back while this person comes out of the driveway and go on their and I don't get so much as a hand wave or a toot of their horn. I once had a conversation with a guy who said that if he was in a car and he saw someone that had did him wrong he would shot them. When I asked what if you accidentally shot innocent bystanders, he said to bad. I then asked what if they were kids and he said they shouldn't have been on the street. How rude is that? Besides being willing to murder someone that he conceives done him wrong, he is also willing to murder anyone who accidentally gets in the way because he thinks they should not have been there.

There was a time when people had respect for each or at least pretended to. But now it's all about self. People talking loud on cell phones or having inappropriate conversations in a restaurant when you're trying to enjoy your meal, the unwillingness to give up a seat on the bus to the elderly or handicapped, or the willingness to almost knock a person down in their rush to get to their destination. Will people get ruder as time goes on or will we all come to realize that everybody deserves the respect that we ourselves want?