Some of us have seen the pictures a 15-year-old youngster took of a wedding reception brawl in a hotel lobby The uncle of one of the wedding party died of a heart attack, for goodness sake. Some of us wonder what is going on with the younger generation? Didn’t anyone teach them manners, respect for others and constraint?

But what about older adults? We see people being rude to servers in restaurants and personnel who work at pharmacies. Others report of people pushing in line with carts and electric scooters, belching and making other rude noises, and complaining about everything and everyone. There are adult tantrums and folks acting as if they own the world and everything in it. Wait! We aren’t talking about children. The older adults are doing this!

We have to take the heat for our own bad manners and of the younger generation. We need to take responsibility for not role modeling good behavior.