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    At my waitressing job, I was serving a couple of teens who looked like they were still in high school. I took a credit card to keep a tab, as lots of people like to run off. When it came time for them to pay, the guy told me to charge it to the card. To make sure I had the correct card, I read off the name Mr. Smith (not real name). He shook his head. I was confused, as I was pretty sure that it was his card. I looked through the other credit cards that I was holding and read them off. He said that none of them were his. I freaked out for a second, thinking that I had lost it. I then held up the original card, which belonged to a John Smith (not real name). He affirmed that it was his. I tactfully told him that I had asked if it belonged to Mr. Smith, and asked again if this was the correct card. He looked at me like I was stupid, rolled his eyes, and told me in a condescending tone of voice, "My name is John." Jesus, is he a precious little snowflake who thinks that he deserves differentiation from everyone, or too stupid to know his last name? For a minute, I suspected that maybe he was using another person's card, but the restaurant takes care of claims like that, not me.

    Another example is my brother's bratty friend E. E is a spoiled, egocentric little brat who is about 13 and does not believe in manners. He'll call us on the phone and say, "This is E." No greeting or request to reach a person. If you ask whom is he trying to reach, he scoffs and tells you my brother's name like you're stupid. He's an egocentric little shit who expects you to be psychic. He also doesn't believe in the words please and thank you. I'm about to strangle him and his indulgent parents, who let him run hog wild, never reprimand blatantly rude behavior even when it's in front of them and are wondering why his school is trying to put him on Ritalin.

    Sadly, I'm seeing a lot of this egocentric precious little snowflake behavior nowadays in the younger generation. I have a suspicion that it has to do with modern conveniences like caller ID, in which you are always aware ahead of time who you will be talking to. I grew up before those days and learned how to properly answer a telephone call. I also learned that sometimes, people are referred to by their last names. Most importantly of all, I learned manners and to never assume that people are psychic, especially strangers. Don't get me wrong, I've met many incredible kids, but you can't deny that we are in an age in which introductions and clarifications are being replaced by things like caller ID and email addresses, leading to a kind of, "What, don't you know who I am?" entitlement complex previously only seen in famous people.
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    I hear ya. Now that I have some friends whose kids are becoming teenagers, I hear about all kinds of rude behavior surfacing with their kids' buddies all the time! AS lot of it does seem to manifest on the phone. They call at ridiculous hours and always just grunt "Is ___ there?" - barely articulating the three words they've deigned to speak to you, much less a please or thank you. My mom used to give me hell if she caught me asking for a friend on the phone by anything other than "May I speak to _____ , please?"
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    I want to deck all of my 17 year old brother's friends and his gf. They call my parents house from about 10 minutes after the time he gets out of school to about 1am and make it almost impossible for my mom to use the phone.

    I mainly want to deck them because his gf and her friends don't stand up for themselves at all. They take the most obscene amount of shit from my brother and his stupid friends that I want to hit them all upside the head. They let guys smack their asses repeatedly and painfully with just a whiney "hey stoooooop". I'd love to teach those girls to stand up for themselves and hit back or knee him in the balls. This I haven't seen in front of me but I've heard it frequently complained about. If I saw it I would have to smack the kid around myself. These boys are definitely getting the idea reinforced that they can keep this unacceptable behavior up.

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    ^I didn't put up with E's shit. I'd tell him the proper way to greet a phone, and when he interrupted, I told him that he was not to talk to people like that, and hung up. My grandma drove me to insanity by constantly correct my manners and grammar, but I'm thankful today.

    I also hear ya on calling at all hours of the night. Now with personal cell phones, it's convenient because you always know that the ringtone is quiet enough to not wake up the whole house, the phone can be silenced, and you can text message 24 hours a day without too much interruption. However, impressionable young kids don't learn that phone calls can inconvenience others. Speaking of cell phones, it's caused so much rude behavior and has encased so many in cocoons of oblivious entitlement. I'm tempted to smash the phones of people who answer in movie theaters and libraries.
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    I mainly want to deck them because his gf and her friends don't stand up for themselves at all. They take the most obscene amount of shit from my brother and his stupid friends that I want to hit them all upside the head. They let guys smack their asses repeatedly and painfully with just a whiney "hey stoooooop". I'd love to teach those girls to stand up for themselves and hit back or knee him in the balls. This I haven't seen in front of me but I've heard it frequently complained about. If I saw it I would have to smack the kid around myself. These boys are definitely getting the idea reinforced that they can keep this unacceptable behavior up.
    Don't even get me fucking started on women not knowing how to say no, the socialized behavior of not wanting to seem like a bitch and considering the needs of others above their own.
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    Speaking of cell phones, it's caused so much rude behavior and has encased so many in cocoons of oblivious entitlement. I'm tempted to smash the phones of people who answer in movie theaters and libraries.
    Amen! The least they can do is walk outside first!!! Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say they really are expecting a truly important call. Like, say, they're a doctor on call, or their wife's about to go into labor. You can STILL put the phone on vibrate and walk outside! Oy!

    Besides, we know that in the majority of such cases, it isn't anything like the above doctor/labor/equivalent scenarios anyway.
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    It's probably a good sign that when a stranger greets me by my name, I momentarily wonder how they know my name. You know what I mean? It means that I haven't succumbed to the mindset of others being psychic.
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    Don't even get me fucking started on women not knowing how to say no, the socialized behavior of not wanting to seem like a bitch and considering the needs of others above their own.
    Oh noooo! How about this...they think that the best they can do in llife is be some twit's ho. They take those asinine videos to heart! They believe that that's all they'll have is a pimp or a baby daddy and it's all they're worth! I don't know where in the hell their parents are and I don't know where the boy's parents are either. I got mocked for saying it but that's why kids have no business watching MTV or BET because it's soft porn, adult oriented content now. The parents need to catch up with today's pop culture.
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    Jesus, is he a precious little snowflake who thinks that he deserves differentiation from everyone...
    i lol'd at that.

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    Another example is my brother's bratty friend E. E is a spoiled, egocentric little brat who is about 13 and does not believe in manners. He'll call us on the phone and say, "This is E." No greeting or request to reach a person. If you ask whom is he trying to reach, he scoffs and tells you my brother's name like you're stupid.
    brat. i'd answer with just your name and then wait. and wait.

    hey, he initiated the call, it's up to bratboy to make his thoughts clear and conveyed. if he gives you any shit, answer right back with the same comments. "don't like it? welcome to earth, brat." the little shit.

    and i totally ditto the 'psychic' comment. wtf? i'm sorry, i lost my psychic ability shortly after adolescence.

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    Sadly, I'm seeing a lot of this egocentric precious little snowflake behavior nowadays in the younger generation. I have a suspicion that it has to do with modern conveniences like caller ID, in which you are always aware ahead of time who you will be talking to. I grew up before those days and learned how to properly answer a telephone call.
    i think it's partly that but more the general shift to a two-working parent household (i.e. loss of active/direct parenting) and just the general lack of parenting skills in the current generation, which btw came from the lack of parenting skills of the previous baby-boomer generation.

    not to purposely blame them but parenting for manners and such simply ain't instinctual. i hate it when parents think their little monsters sprung from their loins completely educated and civilized. bleh.

    i/we could go on and on about the social complexes that developed into this but suffice to say, hey parents! smack your kid upside the head if they're being rude! don't let that slide!

    better you than some cop in the future, because that smackdown will be official and officially ruin their day.

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    im a precious snowflake!

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