Courtesy.
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Francis Bacon, Sr. said about courtesy, “If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
Today, that quote alludes to all nations being one nation: helping each other when in trouble.
Reaching out to each other through service organizations, or personal efforts.
Could we bring it down to the local community, to the family, to the individual?
We all ere every day in not showing these acts of kindness to each other in Rio Rancho.
Every day I see people driving to work, who seem to think they have the street named after their family. They cut in front of you, will not help you change lanes by holding back a little, or they drive faster than it is safe to drive with the number of cars on the road.
Is it because they are running late for work? Do they exhibit their extroverted Type A personality when they slide in their front seat and grasp their steering wheel every day?
I have seen perfectly polite people drive and transform into a different type of person.
Hey, is it still the Fourth of July?
Fireworks are still being fired off in the middle of the night. Do you hear them? Is that against the law here in Rio Rancho? If this is not against a firework’s ordinance, it surely is a noise violation.
Cell phone conversations on the road while the driver is driving - with or without an ear piece, in restaurants, on public transportation, etc.
People tend to shout as they talk on a cell phone, or they don’t care and leave it on the speaker function so everyone can hear their personal business.
Oh, how could I have forgotton?
Rants.
Are they or are they not the height of discourtesy?
Is it showing kindly behavior to talk about your neighbor without signing your name?
Readers are still split on whether we should allow Rants to run in The Observer.
Again, what do you think?
Comments
2 comment(s)L. Smiley wrote on Jul 26, 2008 6:21 PM:
B. Wehner wrote on Jul 18, 2008 8:40 AM:
On a more personal level, we as individuals must start the courtesy. It can only come from each one of us. "