Column: Americans have forgotten how to behave. And it's time to stop blaming the pandemic (www.yahoo.com)

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Not reasonable, perhaps, but theoretically understandable. The escalating price of just about everything implies an increase in value that, in most cases, is not delivered. So some folks simply create their own perks — giving vent to rage or breaking traditional rules of social conduct (i.e., doing whatever the hell they want.)

If you feel you are paying VIP prices, you may well expect to be treated like a VIP.

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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Before the pandemic, I once saw a grown-ass woman grab shit from a toilet and smear it all over the interior and exterior of the bathroom of the CVS I worked at

And this was in a mostly upper crust fancy New England white people town too

Burger-Americans have never known how to behave

[-] Southloop@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

I hear that and I just have to name some sort of mental illness as cause, though. There has to be a major interrupt in your processes to perform an action like that.