I'm thinking that the bigger the city

[ericlee]

The less manners the youth has. This is the biggest city I've lived in besides Cincinnati and I haven't really had any encounters with kids there.

Here so far while waiting in line for the bus, I got snaked by some girl and she turned around to her friends and chuckled about it. My wife and I were walking through the store and this kid who had to be only 8 pushed us both out of the way while we were shopping.

This one ABC girl was on the bus and everything she said, she gave it a nigga sammich such as "nigga, shit that nigga be playing nigga". I know for sure that if her parents heard her talk like that, they'd smack her upside the mouth with a pair of chopsticks.

Being that the town where I'm from is so small, that shit doesn't fly because pretty much everybody knows everybody and if people's kids do some shit like that, they'd be drug to the person's doorstep by the ear and forced to apologize.

[Pres Zount]

Snaked?

Anyway, I disagree. Hobart is pretty small and all the kids here are little shits.

[jackrock]

They're little shits everywhere. Just bring chopsticks with you when you go out.

[ericlee]

Snaked meaning cut in front of.

Shit, maybe the kids aren't all that bad. I could be just getting older and more grouchy but while I was that young, the group I hung around with and myself were hellions but we still showed respect when it was due.

[jabumbo]

what city are you in now?


its probably partly you getting old, but i do know a lot more little shitters around now than what i can remember

[Documad]

When I started getting old, teenagers and young adults used to bug the shit out of me. Then as I got even older, they got downright amusing.

[ericlee]

what city are you in now?


its probably partly you getting old, but i do know a lot more little shitters around now than what i can remember

Queens, NY. I'm guessing that I'm getting older and grouchier too but as far as being cut in front of and pushed out of the way, that has alot to do with a lack of manners.

The kids on the subways and busses are loud too but that doesn't bother me at all.

[ggirlballa]

well kids are weird these days, whenever me & my friends go on the city bus the adults riding the bus kinda get scared of us, all we do is talk & scream obnoxiously & insult & push & shove a little.......hmmmmm(lb)

[digweed]

hmm, the kids in j'burg are definitly ruder than here. the tsotsi's are just as bad here though

[marsdaddy]

It's a combination of you getting older and the affluent fleeing the cities.

[Loppfessor]

What's an "ABC Girl"???

[abcdefz]

Certain elements we consider "being rude" have been introduced into the culture in such a way that... I'm not so sure if it's so much about "being rude" as it is the people feeling like they're free and respected. So it's almost like it's a sign of weakness to practice courtesy. It's pretty fucked up.

[YoungRemy]

I know for sure that if her parents heard her talk like that, they'd smack her upside the mouth with a pair of chopsticks.




sadly, that is where I think you might be wrong...

[Otis Driftwood]

I guarantee you, I behaved within "range" of people who knew me, but my efforts at vulgarity doubled once outside it. That shit u heard ain't shit.

[skinnybutphat]

Snaked?

Anyway, I disagree. Hobart is pretty small and all the kids here are little shits.

Hobart, IN?

[Loppfessor]

Is it anything like a "Holler back girl"???

[abcdefz]

I knew a Holler and a Hobart in Indiana. :eek:

[ericlee]

What's an "ABC Girl"???

american born chinese girl. My wife taught me that one.(lb)

[ScarySquirrel]

I think it's a combination of getting older and the city... or something like that.

On my visit to NYC I noticed that people in the city in general were ruder, I guess. I didn't really mind it though... I think it's just the attitude of the city depending on where you go. It all comes down to whether or not you can distinguish when to turn on the manners and when you gotta speak up for own shit once in a while.

Of course, I probably still stuck out like a sore thumb 'cause I got the whole midwest thing going on. Apparently we're all really polite and conservative? I don't think I am, but whatever.