Think Tank Thursday

Poets United prompt #18 is about complaining, grumbling....  I didn't want to really grumble, who really wants to read that, but then thought about how our society seems so rude, impatient.  I was just out n' about doing errands and grocery shopping; It was shocking how rude people were, I'd  say, excuse me, pardon me and they  looked  at me like I'm an alien.  They stare and walk on by.  Huh?!  It is almost like we need blinkers and stop signs in the grocery store. Children are let loose, one bumped into my back, while her grandmother yakked on and on, to another woman in the next check out.  Then both of her grandchildren wormed their way around my cart, squeezing by me to get to the candy.  She totally ignored both of them, girls ages 5 and 3.   Yeah, it was fun....

So here is my poem:
 

Traffic congestion, nerves are fraught

Can’t we remember what we were taught

Children whining in the stores…

Home, neglect their list of chores

Asking please, seems to be a reach

As we try to remind and teach,

Pride n’values are being made

Blueprints of generations being paved

The road of manners is becoming extinct

Rose colored glasses are not pink,

Red, rage on the road is seen

Texting, make up and then the obscene,

Gestures of panic are in mode

Time to wake up and get off the commode,

Life is difficult enough

Let’s play nice and not so tough,

Excuse me, please and thank you  mean a lot

Human nature shouldn’t be an after thought,

We act like animals on display

Careless, rude and getting our way,

Remember your roots and family pride

Life is a journey, play nice when in stride~