Today's world and common sense

The older I get the more I realize I need to thank my mother for teaching me common sense, without it I'd either be dead or a complete lost cause. Almost everyday is a lesson that I should be thanking her every day. 

 Last Friday's lesson was exceptionally strange. It started like any other Friday night at work. Until two teenagers came into the store with a large cardboard box, a wet cardboard box... that stunk, like death. The one carrying the box came up to the counter and plopped this wet stinking box down with an audible "squish". 

The teen then asks me if I know anyone who wanted to buy something box of fish. I look into the box of now what I know is most likely weeks old dead fish bodies to find exactly that. I back away from the box of rancid fish and tell the kids to get it out of the store because it is obviously rotting and is stinking up the store, bad for business. The kid asks if I'll buy it for a penny... Now I'm a little curious about where these kids found this box if fishy death, so stupid me asks where they got it. The kid responded happily that they found it on the street and thought they could get some money off selling it for a movie. 

I tell them no several more times acc eventually they leave with the box of deadly fish. And I go about my night attempting to purge the stench of rancid fish out of the store. About an hour later a customer comes in and tells me there is a box of fish right outside the door... Yupp! They left the box of fish right outside, can't say I wasn't surprised.  So I managed to bag it up and throw it in the dumpster out back. 

That night got me thinking about common sense and common decency and a sense of right and wrong. 

Who is teaching these kids that it is ok to leave a box of rotten fish out side a store? Who is teaching them to see a box if rotten fish I the side of the road and think "Oh hey I can sell this!"  What about reasoning skills you know? If it smells bad it's not good to eat. Did no one teach these kids this? I was no saint when I was a teenager but the most evil thing I'll admit to doing at that age was going into stop and shop and going to the self check out acc selecting Spanish ad pushing the numbers 123 several hundred times then running away giggling like an idiot. 

The problem with this world now is people are too involved in their lives and don't care or See how it changes and effects those around them. We all live in our own little world with not a care to how our actions change those around us. We love items that are made to be used and we use people like objects instead of loving them. 

*~* Kira

Pardon any spelling and grammatical errors I use a kindle.