I was at Bunnings Hardware. Only bought 4 items.
Proceeding to the checkout, there was another person walking towards the checkout, the last few steps ,he hurried and actually bumped me aside to get there first. What a wanker.
So we were at the checkout together and I told him as well.
I never stopped talking about the lack of manners some people have theses days. As he left, he gave me the bird.
As I say, too many inconsiderate people in the world these days.
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And was this your very first clue?!
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No, just seems to becoming more prevalent as the years go by. 
I was being facetious @Bretrick . 
There is no longer blanket good manners and politeness in our world.
So, I try to do double duty to be kind to make up for someone else’s rudeness.
Some days it works and I get a few smiles back.
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Charm school is not an option for some Bretrick.
Sadly…there are too many of those types around.
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I dunno 
Most people I bump into on a daily basis usually have a ‘good morning’ or a smile as I pass them, and after having an accident in my car last year, It was heartwarming the amount of drivers who stopped to help me.
If someone rushes past me in a queue I let them go and give then a knowing smile, they usually smile back and apologise…
I’m not criticising you Bret, but I am a strong believer in ‘You get back what you give out’
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It wasn’t all that great before Covid arrived but it’s got a lot worse since the lock downs, so much has changed since, including people and their manners.
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I was in the supermarket a couple of weeks ago. I went to the checkout & a young mother arrived just behind me. She was apologising to her young & not very happy, son. It seems mummy forgot to get this. They needed it & mummy could not go home without it. It was a single item. I only had a few items, but I offered her to go in front of me. It cost me a minute at most.
The woman at the checkout thought I had been really nice. Everyone is in such a rush now, she said. But personally, I thought I simply being a normal, reasonable person. Reasonable behaviour should not get praise. It should be the norm.
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With you on this, some people are clumsy, absent-minded (plugged into another world), but not deliberately rude.
He sounds a right ruffian. That’s never happens. Isn’t it a Latin-American gangland thing?