I've noticed a pattern in people lately. Whenever I do something that is simply common courtesy... everyone gives me a shocked look! It's normally something very basic, too. For example: When I went for my state testing at school last year (I'm homeschooled and have to test every year at a public school), I had to leave the room to use the bathroom. On my way back, I saw two girls who were walking into the same room, so I stopped and held the door for them. They thanked me politely... but they also gave me a look as if I had a third eyeball or something.
Then, yesterday in church, a guy got separated from his family when we walked up for communion due to me going to a different minister. When we walked back to the pew we'd been sitting in, I stepped aside and waited for him to get in before I got in. Like the girls, he thanked me; but I received another strange look. Is common courtesy gone? Really? People shouldn't look at you funny when you do something nice... have they never seen it before, or if so, very rarely? Because that's just incredibly sad. What has happened? When I was about my sister's age, there seemed to still be a thing called "manners" around... so how is that I've kept all of them while other kids my age seem to have let it slip? I attribute most of it to being homeschooled... I'm around my Dad and Grandma a lot, and in my house, manners are expected of me and my sister. If we don't show them, we're reprimanded. Now before you start thinking my house is like some sort of military school... it's not. The occasional slip-up is completely okay. Everyone messes up sometimes, including the adults. But slip-ups should NOT be happening to the extent that it is now viewed as different to an extreme to be polite. Fix your manners, people. Maddie
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