Mobile-users need a lesson in manners

WE must all be talking to the most important people on the planet.

Answering the mobile phone now takes priority over driving safely and respecting other road users’ lives.

Taking a call gets priority over having the courtesy to speak to the shopkeeper and answering when asked “do you want cash back?”

Receiving and sending texts takes priority over talking to the friend you’re on a night out with.

Imagine how you’d feel if your friend walked to the other side of the room and spent the night talking to someone else.

Imagine how you would feel if the shopkeeper spoke to his or her friends instead of serving you. Imagine how you would feel if another road-user drove towards you wearing a blindfold. Common manners are still free – let’s not throw them away.

Richard Leahy

Daffodil Fields

Poulavone

Ballincollig

Co Cork