1. My husband can't turn out a light or turn the TV off when he leaves a room. He leaves the house without saying goodbye. He answers his cell phone during supper. How hard can it be to exhibit basic decency toward your significant other?

2. There is a second-grade class at my school that has some of the worst-mannered children I have ever laid my eyeballs on. They came to the library today. Bleck.

3. My mother wanted me to come by her house yesterday after I got off work. She was not there when I arrived. She had taken her car to have non-emergency repairs done.

4. The workers at McDonald's don't have the words "Thank You" in their vocabulary.

5. People on the interstate in Jackson, Mississippi have no driving skills whatsoever. The ones in front of me drive too slow and the ones behind me are maniacs.