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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was actually thinking about this thread yesterday while running errands in Bethesda and running into a lot of rudeness.

One thing I really hate about this area is that when people are clearly struggling with bags or something no one helps. No one opens the door or anything. I was at UPS and saw an older man with a big package and he looked like he was about to fall over. I had to run halfway across the strip mall to help him while all the people around him just walked past him.

Come on people. You can do better than this. I have lived all over and the DC area or maybe Bethesda is the only place where I have seen this kind of disregard for other people. In every other place I have lived people will help others in this situation. This is not a covid thing. Happened precovid too. We just went somewhere else in the country, a big city, and saw lots of people helping strangers.

My impression of living here is that people care a lot about how they look to their fellow parents at school and their child's sports teams but they show their true colors in how they treat strangers.
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I’m one of the PPs who grew up in Bethesda but doesn’t live there now, by choice (we’re in Silver Spring).  I went to college in the Midwest, and when I was back home one summer, went to Bethesda Bagels on a Saturday morning, as I’d done throughout high school.  I was *horrified* when I realized how rude people are there.  Horrified.  That moment has stuck with me, but I wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t spent considerable time in a part of the country where people are generally kinder and more generous.  It’s the water we swim in.

It’s not just Bethesda that’s like that, the “CC/etc.” (wealthy) areas typically are, too.  It’s not okay, IMO.[/quote]

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