Manners Gone Wrong

            While walking down the street, somebody runs into you, thinking about manners he or she should say, "Excuse me- but that is not the case. More and more often people believe that they don't need to have good manners. How about going to a nice restaurant, in the past people would use good table manners and be polite to everyone, but I see people blowing their noses, chewing with their mouth's open, and just being plain rude. Driving manners and Internet manners are deteriorating quicker than any other manners. The amount of rude drivers is quickly increasing because there is more traffic and less time. That is a bad combination. Internet manners are probably the worst manners anywhere; people will say what they want because they know that the other person will never know who they are. People are less likely to say rude things when they could get punched in the mouth. All public manners are deteriorating quickly everywhere.
             Personal manners have been on the decline in the past decade. As Jill Terreri of Columbia News Service says, "In a widely reported study of rudeness released in early April, about eight in every 10 people surveyed by the nonprofit citizens' group Public Agenda identified a lack of respect and courtesy as a serious problem.- Some say that this study was not the best because one person's definition of what is rude is another's way of life. I do not agree with this assertion. Mark Caldwell, a Fordham University English professor states, "One reason why surveys keep showing a decline in manners, is that people tend to remember rude encounters more vividly than polite ones, and that comes through when they answer surveys."" Although this could be quite true, in my own study I show that in North Platte, Nebraska about 40% of people have bad manners, whether it is personal manners, table manners, or driving manners. .
             Along with personal manners, table manners are becoming a growing concern.