I can relate to this. My car has tinted windows (not in a GANSTA way) just come as standard - especially the rear ones. I find myself waving acknowledgment sometimes, and worrying "Will he have seen that? I'd hate to look ungrateful!"
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[Misc] Is it just me?
- Thread starter lawros left foot
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I can relate to this. My car has tinted windows (not in a GANSTA way) just come as standard - especially the rear ones. I find myself waving acknowledgment sometimes, and worrying "Will he have seen that? I'd hate to look ungrateful!"
madinthehead
I have changed this
Dont move to Germany.. Standard here...
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
This will bells on.
The "incident" that annoyed me the most was the woman customer on her mobile at the checkout of our locals Sainsburys. She carried on her conversation the entire time she was being served, presenting her debit/credit card at the end of the transaction, not acknowledging the person serving her once!
middletoenail
Well-known member
Is it at all possible that your food and/or service was not very good on this occasion?
Playing devils advocate!
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
Well-known member
I wish I didn't care. I just can't help an overly enthusiastic "You're WELCOME!!!" afterwards.
Megazone
On his last warning
Maybe they suffer from selective mutism?
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
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No, they were just bad mannered, no complaints from them just ignorant and rude.
Megazone
On his last warning
Don't get me wrong, it's rude to not acknowledge someone doing something positive for you, but I just see it as, glad I'm not them.
This is what I imagine of people who do what you mention-
after a Sunday family dinner out, they go home, sit on the couch together, whack the tv on and then just sit their in silence for the next 3 hours not saying a word other than "have we still got the ready salted crisps downstairs?" whilst no eye contact is made.
The next morning they wake up, dad sprinkles the garden, wife comes out takes the washing off the line, daughter goes to work, and yet none of them have said a word to each other in all of that.
That evening, daughter gets back from work, sits on the couch for 3 hours with family, asks dad if there's any ready salted crisps downstairs, dad says "no", and so the cycle goes on.
There's a dark place in our society that no one sees, I suppose a lack of manners might be the clue to where it lies.
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Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
All about a few flashes of the hazards if the car you are thanking is behind you and one flash of the headlights if in front of you.
Tom Bombadil
Well-known member
I find the rudest people tend to be the recently retired.
GT49er
Well-known member
Yes, but you don't know what awful childhoods they had, how much they were beaten and abused as children, how many traumas came their way that they had to fight their way through even to survive. Or maybe they were devout and saintly pilgrims, bound together by a vow of silence - could be all sorts of reasons. You can't just go round randomly calling out people for perceived rudeness without full knowledge of all the relevant facts.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,122
Don't stress over it. You only had to share oxygen with them for an hour. They, on the other hand, have to spend every waking hour being wankers.
Megazone
On his last warning
On a positive, atleast no one's ever rude on NSC
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,415
In other news, some people are *****!
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Sirnormangall
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- Sep 21, 2017
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I get the same feeling at the Amex when people push along our row without so much as a polite “excuse me” - young and old.
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,063
People have always been rude, in fairness we admire it! But I think many people increasing lack common courtesies such as please and thank you, especially in ‘shared’ environments e.g. it’s one thing to ignore your screaming / misbehaving child in a restaurant but in a library, like the one I visited today, it’s more common than you’d think. Basically we need more grumpy people like me to say something and drag standards up from the gutter that recent generations of parents irresponsibly let them sink to 
It’s a balance. Manners are an absolute essential but raise kids to be too polite and they get taken advantage of in life and end up sitting at junctions for hours.
But if someone doesn’t offer a please or thank you in the course of things they are ignorant wallys.
But if someone doesn’t offer a please or thank you in the course of things they are ignorant wallys.
Bwian
Kiss my (_!_)
- Jul 14, 2003
- 15,898
At the local chippie a couple weeks ago I walked in ahead of a group of about 8 students, Male and female. I held the door for the first couple, no acknowledgement or attempt by any of them to hold the door open for their friends. That was my cue to let the door go into the face (not literally) of the next one through.
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Few weeks ago I was driving from Worthing to Hove and as I passed Lancing I ended up with Bruno driving in front of me for a lot of my journey. He did the hazards flash thing to thank me after I let him pull in front of me and at pretty much at every opportunity to let some in the line of traffic or let a pedestrian cross the road he would do. Nothing but good manners and courtesy from him. Was nice to see that even though he is adored by thousands and has shitloads of money he was still a thoroughly decent person.