Call me old fashioned, but I’m a big supporter of please and thank you.
It costs nothing to be polite and to appreciate an act of kindness.

Far too often I witness such acts being totally ignored.

Take last week, for instance.  I saw a young man hold a door open for a middle-aged lady in a busy shop and was shocked to see that this gesture was totally ignored.  She walked on by without even acknowledging he was there.

Fair play to him, he just smiled and went on with his day.

This also happens on our busy roads.  Since lockdown lifted, I feel that there are twice as many vehicles on the road, going twice as fast, with so many more accidents happening day after day!

Are we becoming a nation of arrogant individuals, or is it that we are so preoccupied in our own little world that others don’t matter or deserve acknowledgment for being polite and courteous anymore?

Write and let me know your stories if this has happened to you.

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Good luck and . . . thank you!