what the fuck

ever happened to civility?  the only good thing to be said about incivility is you can usually see it coming...under one of those damn baseball caps.  more about that later.  i was born in europe during the forties and, believe me, as a youngster i was subjected to the severest civility lessons one could imagine - such as always standing when a lady entered the room, offering your seat on a crowded bus, and looking directly at a person when introduced - even to the extent of holding a woman's hand just a half second longer when you first met her.  oh, and doffing - there's an old fashioned word for you - your hat as you shook hands...which brings me back to baseball caps.  they are never doffed - at least in my experience...usually worn everywhere, inside and out, backwards and forwards - most of them adjustable so they'll fit all sizes of pinheads.  if i or my wife, who's small in stature, ever get banged into, practically knocked over again by some stupid teenager in a backwards worn baseball cap as happened the other day on the way into a restaurant they're gonna have to call the cops on me....and mind your back in the parking lot when some idiot on her cell phone comes hurtling after you.  i could go on...and on, but i'll close by saying that i think the thing most contributing to incivility on the modern world is the cell phone - and all the nattering nabobs on them.  the wickedest part of the whole cell phone scam is one can hardly live without one -- though i manage to.  it's uncivil in the extreme - what with the whole world howling about you, civility sucked up and whisked away in a vortex of noise.