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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
That's a huge part of what I'm talking about. If I go to a "nice" restaurant, I want to enjoy the experience. I dress a little, or a lot, nicer, and I guess I expect others to do the same. I expect others to exhibit good, if not "proper" manners. A major part of my experience is others around me. When I go to McDonald's, I expect people to be dressed in t-shirts and jeans. I expect kids to be running rampant. I expect a less than stellar dining experience. That's not why I'm there. If I go to...say...an Applebee's, or even the Olive Garden, I expect something a little better. If I go to Mahogany's. or Gorat's, I expect something far better. Intead, it seems, I am subjected to just more of the same, from people who seem to believe that just because they have the money to pay their bill...it's all about them.
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I don't know that this conversation is really about manners here as much as it is the pervasive sense of entitlement that is so common now...it really is 'all about them,' for many, many people. And not only that, but they believe that's the way it
should be. It's not so much
not learning (being taught) manners as a sense that manners are some sort of self-divesting compromise.