Common Courtesy Is Not That Common

It’s interesting how the focal point has changed from a sense of community to self-preservation.

Take, for example, the jackass merger.  You know who I’m talking about.  When two lanes go into one, and traffic slows to a crawl, most people are trying to get over ahead of time to ensure they get over without causing a traffic jam.  There are kind people that will wait to let people go ahead of them, but then there are always several cars flying up  the now empty lane, desperate to get as far ahead before having to merge.  And then they get up right against the merge sign and slap on their blinker, waiting for some kind soul to let them in.

Fat chance that person is me.

Back in the day the whole town would get together for a barn-raising.  These people didn’t get anything out of it, they took off an entire day from the work that needed to be done around their own farm, and all just to help a neighbor out.  Because it’s the right thing to do.  That’s fantastic.  Sure, in times of emergency humanity has a great way of rallying around and providing service.  But what about every other day?  The person who is giving you aide in your time of need now may very well be the person you flipped off in traffic yesterday.

Obviously, not everyone is the jackass merger, and that’s fantastic, but I would like to return to a time when The Golden Rule ruled, a handshake might as well have been a notarized document, and your word really was your bond.

There are just too many people trying to fly ahead in life and push their way into success.  While the kind soul behind them is polite enough to make room for them.  There is a vast people in this country more than happy to mooch off the hard work of others.  They live in government subsidized housing, they take welfare and food stamps, receive Sub for Santa gifts, don’t pay taxes and certainly don’t have jobs.

They are ruining the purity of charity.  They are spoiling the act of a good deed when they take something that very well could have gone to someone really in need.

And to those people I say, you don’t deserve the air your breathe.