@AbbeyRhode I spent about 9 months in NYC in the early 70s and it was common awareness that this was typical NYC behavior, which extended well into New Jersey and well beyond the city in all directions.

Rude drivers, rude service providers, rude cab drivers, rude everything. Like the definition of a microsecond was the time between the traffic signal turning green and some jerk honking their horn.

All my coworkers there were from the midwest, south or west, and jokes and comments about the NYC rudeness were pretty common. Polite and reasonable behavior was so uncommon there that coworkers would bring it up in casual chitchat. Like "WOW! I went to a coffee shop yesterday and the guy at the counter asked me how I wanted my coffee!", or "The cab driver said 'Thanks' and smiled after I paid him!".

One game that practically everyone played was to wait at a fast food counter until the attendant addressed the customer; with like "what can I get for you?" or "May I help you", or "Can I take your order?", etc. The usual reception, however, was more like "I ain't got all day, what do you want?", or "What, you just standing there?". Once I got waved aside with a hand gesture as he addressed the person behind me with "NEXT!".

I remember a Jersey friend one saying that the rudeness use to be just a NYC thing, and now it's Jersey too. And one day it will be Kansas.

@PhoenixPhail great comment... true!

@Heartlander Another great comment.... Tragically true. God help us. Makes me so mad I could spit nails.

@Driver2 Amen to that! The same "teachers" who wouldn't hesitate to have a kid expelled for the heinous crime of mentioning God, instead fill their heads with political propaganda, hate and violence.

@AbbeyRhode and they basically have no right to speak unless they agree

@Driver2 I would hate to have a child in school these days. I'd very likely end up home-schooling.

@Snuffy1957 When poor behavior has no consequences expect poor behavior.

@Strictgram Exactly...
Disrespectful kids are a product of disrespectful parents:-(

@Oster1 That seems to be the consensus here.

@Hikingguy Yes... we used to call that phenomenon, "civilization."

Right? Everyone is so quick to throw hateful insults at each other. Sad@Mathis1

@AbbeyRhode If all they had, was twice a day; they would actually deliver news because they wouldn't have time for "opining".

@xixgun Wouldn't that be nice? :)

@AbbeyRhode It sure was

@4meAndyou

Lots of baked/roasted poultry .... chicken, duck, turkey, but fried poultry seems to have come on later. Probably because of war when cooking oil and lards were heavily rationed.

What lard was available then was probably hoarded to be used for fried seafood :)

@Heartlander My family were all farmers. They had pigs, cattle, and chickens. I remember a story my mother told me, about her mother rendering fat in her oven. She took out the pan, but the hot fat spilled onto her legs and burned her pretty badly. My grandfather apparently knew nothing about burns, because he put butter on them.

By the time I came along, rationing wasn't an issue, and fried chicken was sooo awesome! My grandmother used to use Crisco.

@4meAndyou I think food rationing in the US came to an end within a few years of the end of the war. In Europe and the UK much longer. My dad was a grocer who went through the depression and war years.

I remember the butter on a burn treatment. I believe most of the world once believed that :)

@Nimbus *Makes note for Christmas present* 😁

@Northerner As long as people have the right to vote they can only blame themselves when they get politicians that don't represent their views.

@Strictgram I think we have the best of what was on offer.

@Northerner Very often a voter must choose the lesser of two evils. I'll grant you that.

@AbbeyRhode I see our national landscape deteriorating rapidly. I see the deliberate politicization of literally every aspect of life. And with it, I see increasing viciousness and incivility.

The primary and sometimes ONLY tool in some people's mental tool kit is the ad hominem attack. It's absolutely pathetic.

It makes me both mad and sad at the same time. 😑

@Mathis1 I have thought the same thing. With the pervasive influence of the evil, lying media, we seem to be devolving. The media is infusing a large portion of the population with fear, hate, anger, and prejudice. Their ugly example normalizes personal attacks, name-calling, threats and violence. They need to be held accountable for their lies and support of terroristic behavior.

@AbbeyRhode Again, I couldn't agree more. It's distilled evil, and they DO NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. I believe that one of our VERY BIGGEST PROBLEMS IS THE FACT THAT.... because their evil is increasingly "mainstreamed" .... they are NOT held accountable.

@approachingmyexpirationdate Lol, those were the days! :)

@GJOFJ3 Lol, I had a pair of those!

@AbbeyRhode I bet you looked very hot in them too

@GJOFJ3 ☺️

@Strictgram I didn't post this. @Strictgram