The "Good Old Days?" Well, not so much, really.

[moniss]

65. I hear you

but I will also say some things today are much worse than the "old days". Customer service in stores for one. People taking a moment of their time to be courteous for another. As an example I see older people with mobility problems struggle to get themselves in through a door while all kinds of people stand around with their thumb up their backside and/or their head glued to that *@%& phone and could give a damn less about another person other than themselves. The same goes when a mom is trying to wrangle 3 kids and bags from the store and get to the car. Could anybody possibly think she might need a hand? Every time I am at the grocery store (the super-mart, uh huh) when it's raining I see elderly ladies who have mobility problems struggle out into the rain to their car with their bags while other people walk along with umbrellas and never do they give a crap enough about what's going on around them to take a couple of minutes to walk alongside that lady with their umbrella while she gets to her car.

Sure there were people like that in the old days too but it is way worse today. I go to the big Kroger store and the "fresh cut" meat department has nobody out front staffing it and no buzzer or button or anything to alert the employees in the back prepping meat that customers are at the meat case and need them to pull and wrap their purchase. This has been brought to their managements attention by dozens of people and the managers just shrug it off. When I worked in grocery and in other retail if you had this attitude about customers you would be fired. Period.

I agree with the things you point to MM but there are things that are way worse today.