It is sad that all of their credit card debt can't seem to buy these people manners or class.

The word doesn't particularly mean bad manners or even not putting others first in a confrontation. Rude means rough or unfinished or startling. A better word for people who want to be first or don't want to move for you or won't look at you when they need to do so, is selfish. Me, number one at all times. Sign of weakness or meekness if they give just a little. Same people who buy $5,000 worth of liquor or trash a year and contribute $5.00 to the poor.

Rudeness is the (apparent) disrespect and failure to behave within the context of a society or a group of people's social laws or etiquette. These laws have already unspokenly been established as the essential boundaries of normally accepted behaviour. To be unable to align one's behaviour with these laws known to the general population of what is socially acceptable would considered rude.

There is a spectrum of the severity of what I would consider rude.
Impolite, Faux pas, inconsiderate, offensive, obscene

A ton of people in PTC are not loaded.

If you believe all are, your really are not in touch with reality.

Just a note on that point you made.

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Peachtree City is a great place. Yes, some of the people are rude but there are some like most of my family that are not. I am from the north and I find that southerners are more rude. In the north if we have a problem with you or a situation we confront it. Whereas, people from the south just talk bad behind others back and complain to everyone else about what happened. You have a problem address it. Don't go home and complain. Tell that rude person to screw off and walk away, if someone gives you the bird wave to them with a big smile on your face. Don't let other people piss on your day.

Exactly.

Trying to be polite to my face while working against me, behind my back, is the height of being a jerk.

Bring it out in the open, where we can talk about it. Don't try to hide from me and pull me down via others.

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ajoj72000, I have a very differnt opinion of PTC. I moved here in 1995 for my last Army assignment at Ft. McPherson. I have found the people here very friendly. I have found a nice church and have had my children involved in Cub Scouts and now Boy Scouts.

I have volunteered in several community groups. I guess I just hang around with positive people. My wife and I have taught our boys manners. They respect their elders, say please and thank you as well as sir and mame.

Sorry you see the glass as half empty. My only regret about PTC is the addition of all the big boxes and development on Hwy 74. Do we really need the Avenue and all those places to eat?

I am not saying that all Peachtree City residents are rude. There are some adults and children that were taught manners and respect. I grew up in a small town where everybody knew everybody and I was not used to coming here and having people treat me the way I have been treated since day one. In school I was picked on just because I did not wear the most expensive clothing or drive the nicest car and it just upsets me that people allow their children to act like that but, I can only expect that from the children whos parents act the same way. True, there are people here who are very nice but in my opinion they are hard to find. Just like you, I consider myself to be a positive person and my mother taught me well just as you are doing with your children. If only all people taught their children to be respectful then it would be a different story but that is not the case. I do not see the glass as half empty, I see the truth and that is the amount of disrespect from people here in PTC.

We have noted that as well.

Those who do not volunteer or work with others are the first to complain, demand things and tell others how to live. And will not be courteous in stores.

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My husband used to tell me when we first moved to Coweta county that people are snobby and rude in PTC. I thought that he shouldn't classify the whole city that way. But the longer I've lived here and come in and out of PTC every week, I do have to agree to some extent with what he said. It comes from examples like rude drivers not letting you out, to people giving you downcast looks in the stores, etc.
No, not everyone in PTC is rude and snobby but they do have more than their fair share. It is such a shame because my mom is asking my advice on which part of the area she should move to from Florida. I thought PTC would be a wonderful place for her but the more I think about it, the more I'm not so sure.

It is a danger to these people who think that they are better than others, when they really have no idea what kind of money or lifestyle another may have. The people that have been ALLOWED to have financial prosperity by God, can have it snatched away in an instant because they have chosen to use their status to look down on and mistreat others.

We are very well aware of a number of people with money who think they are superior because they have more money.

Absolutely not true with all. But most assuredly with some.

They have no people skills and no softness.

But, to be fair, there are also poor who have 'you owe me' and 'get even' attitudes.

We don't need either extreme, but have both.

It is a shame.

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No geographical area has a lock on rudeness.

Some, not all, of the most rude we have met are old Southerners who think they own the South.

We have actually walked up to some, said, "Pardon me." to ask a question, to see their smiles drop and have them walk away or say, "Oh, you're Yankees."

Or, in a HOA meeting, talking about community services, be told, when you cite the Declaration, a contract all must abide by, not allowing what they want to do, that this is the south and we don't do things that way here. If you don't like it move.

But when you tell, in return, they signed the contract as much as we did, so you are not doing it, they get all snarly about Yankees.

OK for them to try to override our rights, not alright to expect them to live up to the contract they signed.

We won.

Just knock it off, if you are either not aware of both sides of the coin, or are unwilling to see it.

The definition of Southern Politeness, many of us have learned, is to be polite in your face and snarl behind your back. And always do what southerns want, right or wrong.

We will be much better off when we see each other as PTC residents, and stop subdiving by regional origins.

By the way, we are from the Mid West, which is very different from the Northeast, East, Western and West Coast.

This thing of their being Southerners and Yankees only is foolishness.

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They have always been the best. Best in quality and in how they treat their employees.

Target is strictly for women. Most men would not even be seen in the parking lot.

Personally I have no problem shopping a Target.

I get the impression that ole sarge wouldn’t think twice about taking out a machine gun nest single handed yet you probably couldn’t drag him into a Victoria’s Secret.

Sarge, you aught to try it sometime. It’s nowhere near a painful as you might think. Other than your wallet taking a direct hit.

P.S. the Victoria’s Secret catalog comes to the house addressed to me.

Lucky guy!

Victoria's Secret in this thread is pertaining to another store that specializes in the world's most glamourous bras, sexy sleepwear, lingerie and swimwear.

However, the true "Secret" is Queen Victoria's personal physician, Sir Russell Reynolds, prescribed Cannabis for menstrual cramps.
I guess it's not a secret anymore.

Yours Truly

Like you don't know.

PTC WalMart does not have a lock on rude people. My experience has been that Fayetteville WM has more people shopping that think they are the only one on earth that matters than PTC . By a wide margin! That said... Greet the world with a smile , and kill these self centered people with kindness. It will get you far.
I always enjoy being (sometimes overly) nice to these people. Sometimes it dawns on them that they are jerks. The look on thier faces in priceless. If they dont get it, at least they see that other people in the world are pleasant.

Just comparing the Wal Marts of various counties around, and over the years we have lived here, we have shopped them all. The PTC one is the best.

Fayetteville would be second and probably Newnan third.

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