Lillycat......
I agree totally!
We had a discussion about that today at work. I was all fired up. I had a woman "push" me & tell me to get out of her way while I was merchandising at the grocery store today.
Then shortly after that, 2 women were looking at cakes while I was kneeling on the floor stocking & pushed my cart away from me. I reached up to grab it, finding it wasn't there, I pulled it back towards me & said: excuse me to the women. They started having a conversation (out loud) to one another about ME being sarcastic & how rude I WAS!......I looked at them (knowing they wanted me to hear) & said: I just said excuse me! They just GLARED at me & told me once again that I was sarcastic!!!
AGH..... What is it with people these days???
So the topic was.....are Americans getting ruder?