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Whatever Happened To Manners?

Whatever Happened To Manners?

Websters definition of manners:
Etiquette, Decorum, Refinement, Good Manners, Polite ways of social behavior.

I was on patrol the other day when I saw 3 teens crossing the street. Actually, they were jaywalking but what caught my attention was that two of them were eating from a fast food bag and dropping the wrappers in the street as they walked. I stopped next to them and asked them if they dropped something. After a few replies of “huh?, I asked them how they would like it if I went to their house and threw a bunch of garbage and wrappers in their yard and their reply was “this ain’t nobody’s yard”. I felt like asking them if their mama ever taught them any manners but from the looks of how these rebel teens acted, I already knew the answer.

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