I was raised to see people, say “Good Day”, (or something like that) and maybe a sentence or so. I was not raised to pass people and not see them.
I was raised to tell the person on the phone to ‘hold on’, and deal with a physical presence.
Each day I see people on their phones, or with the earphones in, walking, talking, ignoring everyone around them. They sit on their phones for so long, saying nothing much. I know they are saying much, and hearing nothing much, because I can hear every word.
It is not a conversation one wants to overhear, it is just so loud and annoying one has to hear.
Cell Phones are the main driver of today’s high level of rudeness. Of people who will walk into your office, talking on the phone, and expect you to wait until they are finished. And hearing the conversation; often both sides, it is nothing that need be communicated now.
It is not simply that people ignore you, it is that they don’t see you. One of the facts is that many people can not multi-task. They can not talk on the phone and walk at the same time with any competence. They don’t see where they are going, and certainly don’t see people in their path.
Some of them are driving, and talking on their phones.
I’ll never forget getting a life at about 7:00 pm and the driver never got off her cell phone during the 20 minute drive. And she didn’t drive well. It was lucky I survived. And I am never stretching my luck again.
I have made it my duty not to speak on the cell unless I am sitting at my desk, or standing stock still. I don’t walk and talk, and I don’t get into long unimportant conversations.
People who call; “Just to Talk” have to do this at specific times when I am home.
I have made up my mind to ‘be here now.’ Not to miss anything, not to be distracted. To focus on what I am doing while I am doing it.
Which why I notice the incredible rudeness of people today.
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I must say I so agree with you on this. Even just attending mass and hearing a phone ringing is one rudeness to the high level, because at the start of the mass everyone is told to turn off their cellphones. Not only did you disrespect the mass and the clergy but also God himself, when you didn't turn off that phone.
I am amazed at anyone who could walk in with their phone on. The rudeness is incredible.
There are so many and mean people this time regardless of age and gender all over the world.In school where I teach , so many students who no longer greet a teacher meet anywhere in the campus especially those whose grades are not better,of course, they are the one creating their grade.Teachers only teach and give them grades.Gone are those days when we always witness polite and respectful young and old.
I think, making these children good mannered is also up to the teachers they interact with. The teachers should initiate in teaching them good manners and be inculcating within them what the teachers teach.
We were taught, when I was in school, to stand if the Principal entered, to be polite to our teachers. This has gone away. Manners are not being taught and people bobble about in their own little worlds
Yes, we are taught that too. And it means the teacher should be strict that this is being followed by the students. Sometimes, the teacher is to blame because they are lenient.
Rudeness should be corrected at the instance that a teacher observed a student does it.
You are correct. How else would someone learn if they aren't taught? How would a child know about manners if they were taught at home? The school has to insure this.
The teacher should see to it that the students are well mannered. They are the authority in school and they should be followed.
Or maybe the school should impose good manners in every student make a strict implementation as to the violation being sanctioned if ever done by a student or even by the teachers.