(August 19, 2018 at 4:27 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: This is so bizzare - had a real-life experience today which exactly coincides with this topic.
We did our weekly marketing late this morning, and - per usual - we walked across the road for coffee and a bun before heading home. I was looking out the window of the café and saw an elderly woman putting her groceries in the boot when one of the bags broke, spilling stuff all over the ground. The old dear had to kneel on the ground to pick up her things. Ellen and I were heading out of the café to help her when two boys (probably 12, 13 years old) walked up, helped her to her feet and retrieved her things. The woman opened her purse as if she were going to pay the kids. They refused, smiled and waved, then trotted off.
Oh, forgot to mention - before the kids showed up to help her, three adults walked right past an old lady kneeling on the ground without so much as a glance.
Boru
I've always been very polite; I always say please and thank you, always hold the door open for people, always offer my seat or place in a queue to someone in need, and always offer to help if I see people struggling in the street, unloading a car or whatever.
I was in the supermarket recently though, and when I got there was no queue as far as I could see, so I started one. But then soon after that I heard some guy talking behind me about 'what was the world coming to? and there were no manners anymore' to someone else, and worried that he was talking about me in some way. So that kind of haunted me a bit, because I would never, ever, knowingly push into a queue, but it is conceivable that there had been a queue but I hadn't seen it or that he had perhaps left for a brief second to go and get something and then come back to find me in his place. So, that was pretty uncomfortable. But if he had been talking about me if would have been nicer if he had addressed me directly rather than talking passive aggressively literally behind my back, but as I said, I don't know if he was.
