common decency

Why is it as impatient humans, we think that clicking the mouse 13,000 times will make it go any faster? Why is it that we slam the computer, wiggle the mouse, tilt the screen and think that will make it work?

Do we not realise that it doesn’t help, and doesn’t matter!

Also I’d like to know what’s happened to common decency and manners. Blowing your nose EXTREMELY loudly in quiet places, yes it has to be done; but right over me? I don’t think so! When people cough, sneeze and splutter in my vicinity, it makes my stomach turn. Now a sneeze, into a tissue or your hands, can’t be helped and is fine, but when you cough and splutter all over the computer screen at the library, or spit over the table when coughing at a coffee shop, it’s just dam right disgusting.

With Swine Flu spreading unfortunately quickly, we should be trying to stop the rapid spread of this disease; in my experience, people seem to be welcoming it. Wiping their noses with their hand and continuing to type, sneezing without covering their mouth and wiping it on the nearest surface, maybe this isn’t happening everywhere, but hygiene is dying first where I am.

The days where men would hold doors open for ladies, and not just the pretty ones, has nearly completely died for sure. The few men who hold doors open for me are either the ones that are doing it to look down my top, or the elderly gentlemen who were brought up to do so.

As a teenager of today’s generation there really is no divide as to whether there are nice ones amongst the rowdy loud-mouth yobs. They are certainly there, but the reason why you don’t see them is because they don’t go out drinking, or smash things in the street at night. They are the somewhat quiet ones that think life is too short to waste it in jail or on the streets. The youths that ARE out use the same excuse and feel life is too short to listen to the rules and obey the police. Catch 22, I suppose, but like the old saying goes, ‘it’s always the quiet ones’, can be argued with and against.

The parents of the youths outside on the streets love that saying as it means because their son/daughter is screaming their head off at 2 in the morning, or smashing things and being antisocial; that it’s the ones safely indoors that are the problem. They feel that because they have a connection with their son/daughter they happen to know everything about them; that they know exactly where their child is and what they’re doing. I bloody well doubt that! Not one teenager always tells the truth about where they’re going or who they are going with, IF they are one of the ones who are on the street.

However the quiet ones have their own problems too, they are usually the ones ‘picked last for the team’ or a ‘nerd’. I am no way stereotyping the good children that stay indoors for most of the time; they each have their individual reasons, and any which way, for whatever reason, being indoors is much safer and better for the community. BUT, another big but, these children are always forgotten. The good ones at school, who get good grades, behave well, never stick their head out of the water, never get noticed or praised. Yes they may get a certificate here and there, *sarcasm* whoop-di-do!!!, the bad kids get to go to Thorpe park on Halloween and such to stop them from egging houses. How is that fair? The kids of today’s society are turned sour at the unfairness of the situation. You could say, ‘that’s the way life is’, but can’t things of that nature change if they have been like that for so many years?

Today should change for the children of tomorrow, and those who are left behind should change their own yesterday.