When in Dunedin we visited the Larnach Castle. The grounds were beautifully done and the Castle showed exactely how people lived back then. Even the very wealthy look very poor in comparison to what we all have today. There belongs were so few and the poor had even less. Visiting this Castle made me realise how lucky we all are to live now in these modern, technology savy times. We certainly have more things, we live longer because our health systems and food give us a better quality of life. But we have lost things along the way. People now days are alot less friendly to people they don't know, we have actually become a very self absorb and angry society. On a daily basis someone is abusing someone else and most of the time it is totally uncalled for. I was in a shop yesterday and the women who was waiting to be served behind me was so over the top down right rude mumbling loudly about how long it was taking to get served when she hadn't even been waiting for 5 minutes, she then piped up loudly about the sales assistant " Jesus can you take any longer" only to then say when the sales assistant said sorry I won't be a moment, this rude women in her early 20's roughly yelled back " I wasn't talkin to you!" in a very angry tone. No she wasn't talking to the assistant but she was certainly talking about her to her companion. How rude was that! And so totally uncalled for, she and I had both walked up to the counter to get served at the one time but I got there slightly ahead of her so I put my stuff down on the counter and the assistant started serving me and it was basically immediate that the rude comments started. There was just no need for it. And unfortunately this is a daily occurrence. I work in the retail industry and this happens all the time, but I have also been on the opposite end as a customer being treated like a piece of dirt by the shop assistant. People just need to calm down and go with the flow and not let trival things bother them so much. And we need to learn to respect other peoples rights even if we don't know them.
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