what grevious tim said, combined with the fact that more and more people have NO common sense at all.
sadly, this gene trait isnt being wiped from the gene pool thanks to "health and safety" (spit spit)
and though i hate to say it, im going to anyway, cause im thinking it, even if it makes me a middle class ****:
do "poorer families", you know, the jeremy kyle, microwave dinners and 40 a day, ones, spend as much time educating thier kids about things in "life" that require common sense?
dont dick about near trains
look when your crossing the road
respect your elders (step to one side for the old lady hobbling along the pavement kind of thing)
do they spend ANY time?
i get the feeling that as soon as the little feckers are old enough to walk, they are just always "out", and not considered to be the parents problem anymore?