Do good manners matter to people at large anymore? / myLot

India

October 4, 2025 12:56am CST

I hadn't planned to write this one. Yet here as I am traveling by Metro, there is an elderly person with a small child. They have not got a seat. There are many young people sitting. Nobody has shown the courtesy to offer them a seat. I could have intervened but at times, I feel that good manners and behavior should come from within. What are people becoming now? Generosity, empathy - are they dying or dead? And then many claim themselves to be righteous! What do you think?

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Arunima Singh

@arunima25 (93194)

• Bangalore, India

4 Oct

Hmm...have seen such things happening. But then have experienced other way round too. So agree with Judy Story's comment too. You could have intervened in a polite way.

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (49766)

• India

4 Oct

@arunima25 I have intervened a few times but somehow I was observing if someone would bother. Luckily a seat got empty after sometime and both the elderly person and the boy got to sit. There were around 4 to 5 males aged between 20 and 40 and nobody bothered. Not a good sign.

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OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (91297)

• United States

4 Oct

There are a few mannerly people around here but not many.

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (49766)

• India

4 Oct

@RebeccasFarm Yes the good mannered ones are very less.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (148735)

• Roseburg, Oregon

4 Oct

Thee are still a lot of good people around that have manners.

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (49766)

• India

4 Oct

@jstory07 Yet the average is declining.

Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382256)

• Rockingham, Australia

15 Oct

I think mostly here people aren't too bad when it comes to giving up their seats for others but in other ways good manners seem to be slipping by the wayside.

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (49766)

• India

17 Oct

@JudyEv In fact, the point about seat is just one. There are multiple instances.

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Dr Souvik Chatterji

@sathviksouvik (23245)

•

7 Oct

I feel there is a commercial angle to this. Whenever the demand is high and very less service provider there is indifference. I can give example. Indigo has the highest market share in domestic flight service in India. Just because it has hardly any competition the staff are very rude. If an old person requires more foot space, the flight crew tells that nothing can be done. The idea is if they are cordial then also passengers will ride the flight, if not, then also passengers till ride the flight

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (49766)

• India

8 Oct

@sathviksouvik Not a good behavior by the Indigo staff. They should be more polite, no matter whether they are the best or not.

Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (49766)

• India

11 Oct

@sathviksouvik Very bad experience indeed ! I sometimes think may be now a days, there are too many flights and different Airlines staff could be over worked in many ways.