This morning at Tim Horton's coffee shop while picking up a fresh, hot cup of the good stuff I overheard the following conversation:
Customer to employee: " Can you pass on a message to the owner"?
Employee: " Sure".
Customer: Tell him (actually the owner is a woman :)) there is a bike rack needed outside the restaurant here so I can tie up my dog.
Employee: " Your dog"? Okay, I will mention it. But I doubt she will be able to do anything.
Customer: " Well this will be my last time coming in here" .
Employee: No reaction at all. (best reaction).
To me this an yet another example of how selfish society has grown. Everyone worrying only about numero uno. Many, including myself, refer to this as "entitlement".
Defined as: the belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.
An example heard regularly these days is "no wonder your kids have a sense of entitlement". Kids eh? I am pretty sure it isn't kids who are driving like possessed maniacs on our roadways. The drivers that drive right up t behind the rear of the vehicle in front of them expecting nothing other than the unsuspecting driver to submit to their bullying tactics.
Or how about the customer who I witnessed cussing out the worker at the Dollar Tree last because she felt the line was taking too long was not a kid. Nope, grown adult. I didn't know there was a time limit in the service industry.
How can we expect kids to act in any way other than this if the adults around them cannot model better behaviour? And these same adults are the ones snarkily commenting, " kids these days, so entitled".