IS IT JUST ME? OR IS IT CRAZY OUT THERE?

Have you noticed that things aren’t as civil as they once were? Or that rudeness is no longer an exception but a lifestyle? Sure you have. All you need to do is set foot outside your door to see that bad manners are taking over everywhere. People are yakking on cell phones in restaurants, even at church. Folks in carpools wear enough cologne to make our eyes bleed. Complete strangers think it’s OK to rub a pregnant lady’s belly. Passengers abuse flight attendants, family outings to the ball park are ruined by rowdy drunks . . . a congressman heckled the President of the United States. 

So goes the comments from Whoopi Goldberg's new book about manners.  Joel gave me the book for Christmas, it looked like a great short read.  She leaves nothing to the imagination.  She tells it like it is.

Just because I attend the same meeting house as you, and we shop at the same stores, and hang with the same people does not mean that my opinions matches yours.  Actually I am entitled to my own opinion, which is my opinion and no one elses.  Don't assume that I think like you.  I may not agree with you, but  I think you have a right to your own opinion.  There are some people who think that I do not deserve to have an opinion unless it is the opinion of the "majority".    After reading this book, I now think I can have my own opinion whether someone likes it or not.    Just because you worship the ground Glenn Beck walks on, don't try and make me love him too.  It will not happen.  And guess what?  He is not the voice for the LDS Church.