Where has common decency gone?

I have to wonder what has happened, in this day and age, to drive the common decencies and respect that our parents taught us, away.

It seems to be commonplace now to go to a grocery store and cut someone off in the parking lot, leave your trash in your cart, leave said cart in between cars or otherwise take up a parking place, or to spit your gum on the ground so some one can step in it — I have been the victim of this more than once.

Is it really so hard to clean up your trash, put away your cart, or put your gum in a trash receptacle? It seems so.

This weekend I watched an elderly employee...