Entitlement has been becoming more and more prevalent with each generation. It is easy to generalize a bad habit or attach a negative characteristic to a single group. This MTV generation mentality of getting what you want when you want it - an incapability to follow rules, or even acknowledge rules, highlights a trait of this generation . Everyone thinks they deserve a free pass. Not only do they not have to follow the rules but get an attitude when others do not respect their inability to follow them as well.
Yesterday, as I drove through downtown Denver right before rush hour, I saw an elderly man being escorted across the street by two women. This man had to be at least eighty to ninety years old and the women accompanying him were in their 40's and 50's. They were jaywalking across the middle of the street...mid downtown...busy street...with oncoming traffic.
I guess they assumed traffic would stop...mid street...for them to proceed across.
Which most people would, even as discourteous as the action itself was.
But one car proceeded on, in their lane of traffic, causing the elderly man and his two escorts to look up at the traffic, and stop for a second, before proceeding across the street.
The hunched over, cane using fellow, raised his cane at the car, cursed, and stopped traffic further, as the two escorts tried to get him to continue walking illegally across the intersection.
Entitlement is not just a new concept.
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