Courtesy and politeness?

We have to be living in the end times-for a variety of reasons. One of them is the seeming lack of courtesy and manners in our society. We went to our local fireworks display last night and it was a great improvement over last year with a couple of exceptions. The Bible says that in the last days mankind will be lovers of their own selves and boy was that on display last night.

My son wanted to play in one of the "bouncy" houses-you know the very large inflatable jumping things. So I went over and stood in line with him. The attendant was an oblivious teen or young adult. She didn't move the line along at all. One of the dads behind me went up to her and asked why the line wasn't moving and she told him that she allows the kids to bounce until they get tired and then move a new group in. Right. My son could bounce in one of those things for a good half hour if allowed. The real problem however were the kids trying to cut in line right in front of myself and my son. And their PARENTS TOLD THEM TO DO IT!!!!! Needless to say they got sent to the back of the line and I got a lot of dirty looks. What kind of society are we living in that PARENTS think that it's ok to tell their kid(s) to cut in line in front of other kids?

At the end of the fireworks when the lights came up, people just walked off and left their trash on the ground. I not just talking things that animals will scavenge like popcorn but cups, lids, bags etc. The place was a pigsty. An incredible lack of respect for others. Again, kids get a bad message- that it's ok to leave stuff around because someone else is going to pick it up. It wasn't like there weren't a bunch of really large trash cans around but it did require effort to take your own trash over there and dispose of it.

The parking lot. Ugh. You know if one car let one other person out in front of them, you know courtesy and manners again, it wouldn't have been a jammed up free for all. Thankfully it wasn't as bad as last year as the city had set up a continuous right turn lane out of the facility but it was still badder than it needed to be.

Not even Christians are immune from this. My mom has had the opportunity to drive on a small Christian university campus as have I and the students are just a little self centered about crossing traffic shall we say. Our churches are having fights over the music. Those who are older who don't like a steady diet of just praise music are being told too bad-it's all about the youth and getting them to church. At least that's what they were told in my parents church-basically you don't like the music find another church. Where is the mutual respect here? Why shouldn't our youth have to learn and appreciate some of the classic hymns of the faith? Why can't it be both praise music and traditional hymns?

just my musings for now.