I feel that I am a pretty even keel indi­vid­ual; it is pretty hard to get me riled up.

With that said, your every­day com­mon rude­ness really gets me mad. The rea­son is that in most sit­u­a­tions where peo­ple are rude are spawned from pure thought­less­ness and a total dis­re­gard for other people.

It also makes me upset when I hear an adult sigh and say, “Oh, these kids nowa­days.” It is not just the younger gen­er­a­tion being rude, it is all the gen­er­a­tions. From stu­dents, to teach­ers, to senior cit­i­zens, a lot of peo­ple seem to go about their day with blind­ers on. They can see only what is directly in front of them as they go through this world with tun­nel vision.

The things that make me the mad­dest are just the lit­tle things. If someone’s hands are full, hold the door open for them (or even when they’re not car­ry­ing any­thing). If some­one is wait­ing to turn, have the com­mon cour­tesy to put your turn sig­nal on to let them know they can pull in front of you. It’s not like you have to slow down to turn it on.

If you’re at the gro­cery store, do not leave your gro­cery cart in the mid­dle of the aisle. I can­not tell you how many times I have had to take a deep breath and resist the urge to start push­ing my cart at a dead sprint and start run­ning into peo­ple who park their carts anywhere.

I am not say­ing we should all start donat­ing all of our money to char­i­ties. All I am ask­ing for is that peo­ple open their eyes and actu­ally real­ize there are other peo­ple in the world other than themselves.

I under­stand every­one is in a hurry nowa­days, but being cour­te­ous is not exactly time con­sum­ing. Even if it does take an extra two sec­onds of your busy day, isn’t being a good per­son worth that? n