What happened to manners?
Here is a fine example of why the youth today acts like morons.
Around 11:30pm I heard a "pinging" sound outside in my front yard. I peeked out the window and watched a teenage boy throwing stones into my yard and bouncing them off our rockery. My husband went to the window and yelled to the boy to stop and to get out of our yard.
The boy looked up at the window and said, "You don't own this corner." My husband went downstairs, opened the front door and told the boy he had 5 seconds to leave or we would call the cops.
The boy smugly shrugged his shoulders and did nothing.
My husband asked, "Do you need help crossing the street? Get out of our yard."
The boy crossed the street and within a few minutes he was picked up by his mother. I could hear the boy whine to his mom about the "man" calling the cops on him for doing "nothing". It is funny how voices carry when you live in the country.
The mother zipped her car in reverse and flew out of the car. She slammed her car door and rang our door bell. My husband answered the door and the woman literally got in his face. She started yelling, "You don't know who you are messing with. If you call the cops on my son, you will pay!"
I don't get this world and the parents that ruin the generations to come by teaching them that it is okay to disrespect other people?s property.
If an adult yelled at me at the age of 13, I would have been so embarrassed. I wouldn?t have dared utter a word to my mom about it. If I had, she would have made me not only apologize to the home owners but I would have been at their home first thing in the morning picking up the rocks that I had tossed into their ditch.
My daughter may not be the brightest student or the VIP athlete but she opens doors for people, send ?Thank You? cards not only for gifts but for kind gestures, she refers to a gown woman as ?Mrs. or Ms? unless otherwise told that she can use their first name. She has etiquette beyond her age and I know that I can leave her in a room full of guests and she will make me proud.
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