Have you noticed a rise in rudeness since Covid?

Posted by PinchaPenny893@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 340 comments

Obviously people have always been rude, but I feel that British rudeness is usually stereotyped as more like "passive aggression". But since Covid, it seems like people are more brazen in their rudeness and give less of a shit about other people in general. I was on an overpacked train yesterday and witnessed a woman shouldering past the people standing in the aisle and telling them to get out of her way because she needed to go get her shoes from her suitcase. People were trying to back up down the aisle for her, but she wouldn't wait and just barged past. I've also witnessed more and more people openly speaking down to food and retail workers (though this has always been an issue) and getting full of their own senses of self-importance. A lot of people generally seem to have shorter tempers now and don't seem to mind saying nasty things to people's faces rather than behind their backs in private. I've only really noticed it since Covid, especially when all the restrictions were dropped in public. Maybe spending too much time away from the general population has caused us to become a more openly rude nation, in spite of the "polite British" stereotype?