Does anybody believe in manners today?

What is allowed today? It seems like you can say and do anything these days. I've seen kids and millennials say and do things that if I did I would have gotten a beat down from my dad or even ostracized from my friends.

In recent days I've seen a man on a bike spit at a young girl/woman who was riding her skateboard the opposite direction.

I've seen a man punch an elderly woman who fell down and hit her head on a fire hydrant. I believe she is in her 90s and she suffered a concussion and is very afraid to go out of her apartment now... That was very sad.

I've seen a millennial kick an elderly woman in the face in front of his so-called friends at a bustop. Then run away. That was disturbing to no end.

Gun fights in major cities of the U.S. with city leaders not taking responsibilty, just pushing the blame along.

The races of the people involved are purposely not mentioned in this blog.

What the hell happened to good manners, chivalry and just being a good person?

This behavior has me so spooked that I refuse to open a door for a woman unless I already know her. I mean I might open the door for the wrong woman who will jump, and I mean stomp all over me for not being "woke." "Woke", a word meaning a social injustice is currently or about to happen, or something to that matter. It doesn't mean what it used to anymore.

I was the last of the baby boomers and I remember gentler days when I was in high school and college and the things I thought about were to get good grades, go to wrestling practice, go to the gym and try to bench press 400lbs, cruising around the neighborhood in our cars with my friends and if I was going to see my crush at the next party during the weekends.

I enjoyed my high school and college days. And I will tell you this. I was only a handful of minorities in both high school and college. Out of a graduating class of 2200 high schoolers there was only me and one other guy who were Filipinos. 2 out of 2200!

I have never been picked on in high school or college...Well it might have helped that I had a 52" chest, 65" around my shoulders and 19" arms with a decent 34" waist. I was built like a train back then. Just about all my friends were white and my one Filipino friend, who by the way, after about 40 years we are still close friends.We all got along.

I never got bagged by the police, even though I should have been caught a few times. When I spoke to them I was always respectful and my mom and dad taught me to be a real gentleman around women. But as I have said before, be careful who you are being chivalrous too. You may get the short end of the stick...literally.

All I'm asking is if you are of age, continue to be respectful, well-mannered and kind to others. I believe that millennials may be the end of the U.S. I do hope that I am wrong. I guess their absent parents may have sealed the end of days for us, especially for me...I don't want to live in a world where a "Purge" will take place every weekend for entertainment purposes.Look up the movie Purge if you don't know of it. It looks like how the cities of today are being run.

Signing off,

Courtney-