Rudeness in CA
I do a fair amount of travel around the US on business and consume products and services in many places each month. Additionally, as a former manager of a Corona coffee shop, I dealt with hundreds of people every day. I can say with certainly that rudeness is an epidemic, but fortunately for the rest of the United States, this outbreak has been contained within the “SoCal Hotzone”.
The rudeness we see in society today is a direct result of:
1. Long commutes to jobs in the OC
2. Mom & Dad both working leaves little time for true relaxation (which generates a “make it up on the weekend” attitude) leaving little or no down time since one must “leave early to beat the Saturday traffic”)
3. Lowered expectations on children and their interactions with adults
4. Parents viewing their relationship with their children as “friendship” rather than one of “leadership, guidance, and principle establishment”.
For perspective, I’m a 33 year old father of a two and half year old boy and a 6 month old girl who will probably be moving from CA in the next 12 months to escape this mess. My wife stays home (only because I bought my house in 1998 when you could still buy in Corona for $150k). I couldn’t afford the property tax on my own house now.
posted by Doug @ 2:16 PM
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Even the problem of rudeness can go both ways. I have just gotten a new apartment, met the downstairs neighbors and already they are making comments about how snooty and pompous I am. Possibly it is the neighbors here that are being rude. They made judgments about me based on what they saw of my home in the few minutes they were here, yet won't bother taking the time to get to know me.
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