Are adult public displays of anger now normal, and here to stay?

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Yes, I'm the one who wrote of the Salvation Army bell ringer who was the victim of a young man throwing things on him. I was rather shocked over it all, such a young man attacking a man who has to be at least 80 years old, but in retrospect, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. Nothing should really surprise me anymore, but somehow it does. And I can't live in a bubble, isolated from life. Some things have to be done, no matter what. My oldest son bought me a new phone. Mine was not always doing what it was supposed to, when it was supposed to. I hadn't said anything to him about it, but I know on Thanksgiving he picked it up and looked at it and said something about it would soon be outdated. I've always kept my phones until they croak, so I didn't think about it at the time. Evidently, he did. Since we are on a joint AT&T account, he had a new iphone sent to me, with a case and all the necessary things to make it what he thought it should be. He even bought his old mom a phone of a lovely pink color...he knows it's one of my favorite colors. It arrived yesterday. I was reading on how to set it up and transfer all the info from one phone to another, but the process is now a lot different, so I decided I would let the people at the AT&T store do it for me. It was a lot different than it was a few years ago. She punched in a few things, I did the password and the face ID, and she put the phones side by side--no cords, just the phones. It was done in a few minutes. An extremely painless process, yay! In the few minutes I was waiting and chatting with the tech lady helping me, the tech next to her finished with his customer and called the next name. An elderly lady came up and sat down, and they started their business together. Immediately, another lady charged up to them and said, you called my name, why is SHE taking my place?? They both had the same first name, Julia. But different last initials. The tech said he took them in the order they had arrived and this lady was first, and he said it wouldn't be long at all. So Julia #2 went ballistic! She went up to the old lady, got right in her face, and while I cannot type what she screamed at her, lets just say it starts with an F. And she stomped off. The entire place got super quiet...a manager was called and shortly after, here comes a police car and the nasty lady was escorted out. Yay!! But...why, why, is all of this anger escalating everywhere?? A friend who lives close to Indianapolis called yesterday. While she was grocery shopping, another lady was shopping and was by the meat counter. She took two dozen eggs out of her cart and dumped them on packages of roasts and steaks in the meat case, and smashed them on top of the packages. She yelled something about how they would have to mark down the meat now and not charge so much. I mean...seriously?? Friend said the police showed up for her, too. So, so much anger. I am truly struggling to understand all of this. I realize we have an angry, and full of hate, leader. But this kind of behavior solves nothing. Where will it all end? Pinterest picture