No one wants to queue or wait for their turn at service centres. Everyone wants a preferential seating, be it at the Masjid, on the ferry, or in public vehicles, and even if they come in late. No one wants to give way in traffic, and those given way act as if they alone paid road tax. Anyone can park in the middle of the road to drop someone or tell off another driver. Customer care personnel act like they're doing their customers a favour. Any pedestrian can assume traffic police duties and can yell at every driver like: "driver dor def ndanka; hanna ya mujay am motor; yow ku stupid nga, hanna amulo horn; dor signal; yorballeh nyu y; soma lalleh" - that's Wolof, and I don't have time to translate.
Folks can't even ask for favours without sounding so arrogant and authoritative. Saying courtesies like thanks, please, excuse me, etc. is as hard as trying to convince a typical Muslim on the crucifixion of Jesus. They'll disregard established protocols to show who they are, or who they know rather than what they know. The ones that choose to be philosophers of pessimism don't want others to be happy, because they're happy being miserable
Stupid parents use their stupid children's arrogance to get to other parents. Even genuine reminders are said to be judgemental. A wrong becomes a wrong only when it is done by those that are not in our good books. People will neglect things they could fix simply because it's not their job, or it doesn't affect them directly. Like that neighbour that barricades almost half the road just to prevent drivers from avoiding the ditch by his compound gate, and ironically, he calls himself a Muslim that believes in Sadaqa Jariyah (ceaseless charity).
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