The amount of entitlement

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felt by my peer group is grossly huge.

Fact: No one owes you anything. Don't act holier than thou.

Simple courtesy has gone out the window. There are a severe lack of "thank you"s. No eye contact while talking. Little conversation.

Went out to eat, saw a table of 6 people aged 18-25...and they all stared at their phones and didn't say a word to each other until the food arrived. Sitting next to me at the bar, a woman with her 9ish year old daughter...and she had a tablet sitting infront of her the entire time. Ummmmm, maybe you should talk to your daughter? Or maybe not sit at the bar with her. Or don't bring her into a restaurant if you don't want to interact with them.

What the fuck? Unplug yourselves for 5 fucking minutes. You won't die.

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electrohead:
DUDE! Absolutely. I've made it a point to say "excuse me" more lately, regardless of whether it really was an inconvenience to the person or not. More of like a preemptive  excuse me. Just because I know no one else in fucking Ohio does it. @strongbhoy
strongbhoy:
I always do, and usually it's the other person that needs to do it, as I'm not incon-fucking-spicuous. The worst are kids running in and out at Wild games and such and they could easily be stepped on, but from time to time most of them say excuse me. This is part and parcel of my Mom and then military camp for 8 years and working there for 3, but being polite really makes things much better. Show a semblance of respect for yourself and your fellow humans and they usually reciprocate, or they "catch on", which is what I do. I mean, I told you when Mike and I went out to the old Coney by our party house (can't remember if we took you or not) and he was actually EMBARRASSED the first few times we went out because I was so polite and it made him feel bad that he wasn't doing the same thing. To the point he actually said something about it to me.

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