Ever get cut off by a driver who seemed to think a turn signal mandates entry into your lane … even without any space? Nowadays a honk generally gets a response, but generally not the kind my mother would have gotten … an apologetic wave or something. Nope, you’ll be ignored, or flipped off.
Or maybe my pet peeve: people leaving their cell phones on in a movie and maybe even answering them.
Several websites have opened up to cater to frustrated people. Among them are advicegoddess,com, rudepeople.com, platewire, and hollabacknyc.
“Just to say to someone, ‘Careful you could kill someone,’ they’re like, ‘Yeah, whatever,’” she said. “But once I put their picture up on my site, it’s not just you I’m deterring from that behavior again. It’s other people.”
But can these sites actually change behavior? In some instances, yes. One Santa Barbara, Calif., man used to steal neighbor Tim Halberg’s morning newspaper until he was caught on videotape by Halberg himself. Halberg posted the video on youtube.com and the stealing stopped. Source: ABC News
I took a look at these sites and noted many examples that have experienced. A lot of it, to me, is that common courtesy and politeness have gone out the window, as more and people now have a sense of entitlement about their actions … kind of like, well, I exist, therefore I’m entitled to do whatever I want.
