Such respect.

Deedaa

My son came home this evening from his job as a Tesco delivery driver and told me that he had spent an hour with one of his customers. The poor woman has Parkinson's and had been taken ill. He stayed with her until her daughter and an ambulance arrived. He could have left her to wait on her own, but that's not something he would do.

You have a son to be proud of!!!

I was waiting to cross the road in Birmingham dressed in my best WRAF blue uniform clutching bags and suitcase. A funeral hearse and cars went slowly by and I, of course, quickly dumped the bags and gave a smart salute. A lady in the second car gave me a sad smile although passing pedestrians looked at me very strangely.

We do in my world. I raised my kids that way and my grandsons from both kids are definitely being raised that way. My daughters boys were thanking bus and taxi drivers as soon as they could talk, her eldest is complimented on his politeness and kindness everywhere he goes, the younger ones are following suit.
My sons kid is just as polite, he's also highly intelligent so has plenty of empathy that makes him very diplomatic.

Not every parent is raising animals.

Peaseblossom

CanadianGran what planet is she living on?

Slightly unfair I think. We had no funerals in our families until I was in my thirties and I really knew nothing about them. One of my grandparents died when I was about 10 but we lived abroad and only my father came home for it.

Obviously I was aware of funerals, hearses, cremations, etc in a vague sort of way but had never attended one and they weren't something anyone discussed, especially youngsters.

A sadly different event at my grans funeral, a very hasty driver tried to overtake the cortege and then "cut back in".. he crashed into the hearse . We were all sat on a very busy road waiting for the police and assistance..

My mother was taken to the crematorium in a carriage pulled by two horses and on the way we had to go round a roundabout. First one car then another stopped on the roundabout to let the funeral cortège of cars follow. Also saw people stop walking along and would cross themselves.

I couldn't agree more Dreadwitch. My children are trying their hardest to instill gratitude and respect in my grandsons.