What Makes A Good Manners - 849 Words

In the earlier years our society was pretty decent when it came to using their manners. Today’s society no longer knows what good manners are. Has one ever experienced poor manners in his lifetime? In my lifetime I have witnessed good manners, but my experience with bad manners occurred at the golf course, grocery store, and while traveling on the road. First, my bad experience with manners was on the golf course. It was a very nice day out, and I was playing at Hannastown Golf Club in Greensburg, PA. While I was on the fifth hole a guy behind me almost hit me with a golf ball. I tried to procede without worrying about the ball hitting me. The gentleman came marching up to me using profanity that I have never heard before. He’s rude for†¦show more content†¦It is dishonest to cheat in what is known as a gentleman’s game. Second, incident with rude manners came at the grocery store. It was at Shop’ n Save in Greensburg, PA just like any other day of shopping. An older lady came near me and hit me with her shopping cart. The lady then gave me the death stare; as if, I was the one that ran into her. She went on her way like nothing ever happened even though she hit me with a shopping cart. What bothers me most is the older lady never attempted to say I’m sorry for hitting you. As an older lady she should be more polite, but the elderly seem to have forgotten theirs. The worse mannered people in the grocery store are the ones that cough everywhere. It disgust me when people walk pass the produce section hacking out a lung, and it goes through my mind â€Å"man I have to eat that†. People also go around coughing everywhere through the store and do not think twice about others in the store. They think if they cover their mouth with their hand it is okay, but it’s not because they use the hand they coughed in to pick up the produces. Most of the time people do not care if they use manners, or not because tha t is the society we live in these days. Lastly, while on the road traveling I encountered impolite manners. My family and I were traveling to Ocean City, Maryland for our vacation. While we were driving a person cut us off without a turn signal, and forced us to slam on the brakes. People would change