Dont You Just Love It When Neighbours Fight?

I have just witnessed a very rare event. Not have I seen this since the days of Margeret & Norman when Margaret got her head kicked in by somebody elses mother over who had the best daughter or something back in the late 90's. I have just seen somebody turn up outside my new neighbours house, pointing and cursing and carrying on like she didn't have a care in the world. My new neighbour was leaning out of a window from upstairs a little bit confused by the look and sound of it but all the same would not meet the mad woman yelling at her on the street to discuss what her issues were or make an effort to calm her down. Just quite happy to yell abuse back from the safety of an upstairs bedroom.

'What a great start to a new beginning' I thought. Get rid of one family of complete and total headcases only to get another, To add more weight to the issue, a new and what appear to be avery pleasent young couple were attempting to move in next door while all this was going on. I bet they were pleased to watch all this happening as they politely ask the shouting and pointing mad woman to move so they can get their sofa past them. Its all fun isn't it.

This got me thinking. Is this just a coinsidence or is this what the UK has become over the years of over crowding, lack of respect and downright rudeness? Is this just the norm now and what I witnessed today was no different to anywhere else in this tiny island or I am just a snob?

I think the answer is no, it is not. I am 41 years old as I write this and when I was younger I had 4 tv channels of which the most shocking was Channel 4 showing programmes like 'The Tube' and 'Threads'. Now we have 1,000,000 channels most of which show shocking social behaviour of people taking drugs, possessing drugs, fighting, drink driving, anti social behaviour, hooded groups, stabbings, murders, fights, dealing drugs, cruelty to animals,  ect ect. The list goes on and I think that all this has  conditioned us to accept that what I witnessed today is acceptable in the same way that an alcoholic is conditioned to hard liquor.

All I can say is that alcoholics do not start on hard liquor. Their problem takes year and years and eventually ends up with the poor soul having a total disregard for self respect and a lack of morals for themselves or anybody else.

Is this true of the UK today or am I just being an old fashioned snob. The decision is yours.