Does It Still Exist: Common Courtesy?

I don't know about you guys but I think that with chivalry and manners, common courtesy too has been tossed out the window. I'm sure that it has been proven somewhere that a mans nature is shaped by the men that were in his life as a child and that the expectations that a woman places for a man she desires are too. Common courtesy is something that SHOULD be common among people but has slowly faded away.

A great example of this is when I had a conversation with my father this past weekend. We sat in my cousins restaurant and my father asked if the ex wife of the restaurant owner comes and helps out if needed. I thought to myself, "What a silly question, who does that?" I watched as my cousins daughter gave him a look of, "What the heck are you smoking?" followed by a NO. As soon as we returned home I asked him if he were in the situation would HE have helped my mother and he gave me a simple answer of, "Yes." That made me wonder what had happened between his baby boomer generation and my Y2K era that caused people to become so darn unhelpful. I thought about it and came up with a few things that I feel should be common courtesy when it comes to measuring a real friend or a person that you're sleeping with but often is not...

1) Supporting-When it comes to your friends, if you can't rely on them to support you with anything from a new relationship to a new career choice it may be time to re-evaluate. A real friend wants nothing but the best for you and WILL support you in all things because they love you.

2) Moving-A great way to know if you have a true friend is if they offer to help you move during that annoying time of need. You may not NEED their help but the offer is always appreciated.

3) Fixing Sh*t-In my opinion, if a man can't fix sh*t then he may as well be a woman go saddown somewhere. It's like required these days that women know how to cook, clean, take care of the kids, maintain a decent job, and be a lady in the streets and a freak in the sheets. Soooo...how hard is it for a man to learn how to change a tire, check the oil in the car, or put together the freakin entertainment system? Really...I think all straight men should be required to take a maintenance class so they won't be, like the old folks say, Good For Nothings.

I don't know, maybe I'm and alot of other Virgos that I know just a different kind of breed of people. Maybe I should have been born in the 50s when chivalry was all too prevalent and courting was required before a guy could even think of reaching first base. Maybe that's my problem, and alot of other peoples problems too, we were born into a time when all the sh*t that matters doesn't exist anymore. Sucks...

Is common courtesy a myth or still prevalent in today's society? What do you guys think?