Manners

What is wrong with people today, it would appear that a large majority of the “younger” generation are just not taught, or if they are conveniently forget them.

One of the worst problems I experience everyday is time keeping, I was told by my parents that if your start work at 8 o’clock then you are at work for 7.45 you then go and use the “convenience’ if necessary, you get your cup of tea or coffee and you are at your desk ready to work at 8 o’clock…….. not 1 minute past, not 2 minutes past ………

The height of rudeness is to be late for anything, work, a meeting, a hair appointment , a doctors appointment, a house viewing appointment, someone else’s wedding, your wedding, church, a concert, a live show, an anything at all ………………… it is rude to be late, is shows that you think that your time is more important that the person you have kept waiting.

The African time concept, is a concept developed by people with no manners to justify their tardiness …………..

Then we have my next favourite knocking when you enter a room, today even though I am almost 50 years old, which is no where near as old as my friend who is already 50, I STILL knock when I enter a room that has anyone in it, a bedroom, a boardroom, a doctors room, a toilet room, any room at all do the people of these times not know that it is rude to barge in without announcing their presence first………… but there is something worse than this, barging in when you are on the phone…… and then they just begin talking to you ……………….. do the not see the phone attached to your ear, do they not see the large decidedly ugly instrument in your hand resting against your head, is there somehow, something that miraculously makes it disappear, when people enter your office, that you are the only person who sees the phone, to everyone else these devises are invisible………………..

And then there is dare is say it …... the sniffing and snotting …........ Do they not know that the way to do it is to blow your nose into a tissue or an handkerchief, it is not to blow as hard as you can, until the snot becomes airborne, and is sent like a shower of snot into the air, to land who knows where……… a habit to the civilized society, is to disgusting to contemplate……………… and even worse instead of blowing your nose you take a deep breath, and re-inhale it to …………….. the place that re-inhaled snot goes to …………………………..

Oh wait there is one more thing that we cannot miss ………. the next to the car ………… up the wall ………….. against a tree ………. in a gully …………. behind an electrical box ……. Relieving yourself of not only bodily fluids, but of whatever else can be evacuated at the same time ………………. Not in private, now where they cannot be seen …….. but right there in full view…….. for the entire world to see …………….. what exactly is wrong with people today ……………………..