Courtesy, lost in modernization

Having watched innumerous people barging through a small aisle in my office motivated me to write this post.

The aisle is wide only for one person to walk across the room towards the café or the rest rooms. You can imagine the number of people who would be going to and fro in a day.

Every time there is another person at the end of the aisle while I am walking, I stop to allow that person or atleast give the person a chance to decide whether they would want to walk or wait for me to walk across.

There have been so many cases when there is a “Gentleman” at the other end of the aisle and who refuses to wait for the lady at the other end and just barges in. So I am being a person who wouldn’t want to get anywhere close these “Gentlemen” wait until they slowly drag themselves to the other end of the aisle.  

What puts me off is the way they do this. Some people ignore the fact that there is a lady, forget the lady there is another person waiting for you to move your weight and are busy on their phone texting messages to people or they are searching for some one across the room. I understand that theses are “the busy” people who can’t take their eyes off their phone or their searching but they even lack the manners to thank the person who waited for them all along!! Well forget the word “thanks”.

There have been cases where in malls people have tried to move in between tiny space between the shelves and refused to even excuse themselves from doing so. They don’t mind the limited space between them and a person of another sex. Guess that’s the fun they get out of the small room space.

I wonder where the “gentle” has faded in these “Gentle men” or the courtesy to wait for a lady. Most of them seem to have become Robots sitting in front of another Robot in the making who wouldn’t know what is the behavior expected out of them.