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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2352008" data-attributes="member: 15651">I understadn what you are saying Harmon, but I'm not sure that things are really that much different than 20 or 30 years ago.  One thing that happens many times is that people tend to noitce the things that upset them more than those that they expect.  I know in my town there is still a lot of common courtesy.  I see it all the time.  There are also people who are the jerks you are speaking of, but I don't think there really are more of them or they are more rude than they used to be.  I know "kids these days" aren't really that much worse than when I was one of "those kids." On first glance it seems they must be worse, but when I take a step back and really look at what I was like at 17... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> .Would it be nice if more people were kinder to each other?  You bet.  But rather than getting upset about it, I really try to make a conscious effort to act as I would want others to act.  I try to be courteous and sincere.  I'll give up my seat on the T for an elderly person, or someone with kids, or just someone carrying a lot of things.  I get funny looks about it sometimes, but I like to think that maybe someone else might notice what I did and next time they will be willing to do it as well.</blockquote>

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