Common Courtesy

What once seemed to be common, isn't so common anymore. Common courtesy is something that has faded away and certainly something that makes me sad. We are all selfish people but we have become even more selfish over the past twenty years that I have been around to witness. I hope we can start to make a change because I don't want to know what this world will turn into after another twenty years if it keeps heading in the same direction.
Common courtesy is so rare now a days that a simple nice gesture is often confused with flirting. Or perhaps even confused with thinking that the other wants something in return, people being nice for no apparent reason sounds absurd.
Start being nice not because it might help you out in the long run,  which it probably will, but because you want to. Not to get credit for it, but to feel good about yourself, and nothing to do with anyone else.
Here are some signs in the subway in Argentina that really surprised me. I'm sure the same things happen in the US it's just been too long since I have been there. Nevertheless, I know the same things happen. It's such a pity that we need to be reminded to have common courtesy. You think the.word common would mean it's automatically incorporated. Unfortunately, in our generation it's something that occurs less often than we would like to admit.

With the pictures you can probably figure out what they say but the first says: we throw our trash in the trash can. Pretty simple, right?
The second says: we always give away our seat. (And it has a picture of a pregnant woman) there is a similar sign in all public transportation here, indicating a seat that is reserved for all handicap, pregnant, or people carrying children in arms. Just in case people don't understand that they need the seat more than you do.
And the third says, we wait behind the yellow line. Not to warn people to not kill themselves but because people rush to get on and they don't allow the people who are trying to get off, get off first. There is another sign that says, "we let people people get off before we get on." But of course, I couldn't find it.

And Im goinge to end with saying that here is a sign that perhaps we should make billboards of and put them up everywhere.
"Say please and thank you"

Don't forget to say them, common courtesy people.