I was also brought up like that.. and I hold doors open for people for them to walk through and ignore me without even saying "Thank you".
What annoys me is that I walk with a stick, and sometimes use a wheelchair. I never get offered a seat on a bus (in the days when I could still reach our local bus stop).
About a year ago I was in our local sainsburys to get a 2 pint of milk. I was walking down the middle isle with my milk to about where the checkouts were and there were 2 teenagers walking towards me. They somehow tripped me up and i fell over and milk exploded over the floor and me. Did they apologise? No. They said, and I do not lie "50 points for the milk and 100 points for the cripple".
These days I think respect is a gone and forgotten nicety.
MadCat
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