This Service Needs to Hit the Road.

I love DailyCandy. It is a website that showcases all that is entertaining, fashionable, food related and culturally interesting in major cities (as well as all over the web). It also has a children's version which is simply fabulous as well. It is because I am such an ardent fan of DailyCandy that I am so disappointed that a recent edition showcased an astonishingly offensive service that is based on and encourages the spread of rudeness.

In a nutshell this service (warning the name of the service is offensive)provides a way for disgruntled individuals in search of a parking space to complain anonymously to intentional or inadvertent poor parkers of vehicles by printing out then filling out a note and checking off the transgression of the parker and leaving the note on the other vehicle's windshield.

DailyCandy explains that it will "mitigate your rage" and "keep you out of anger management".

We at Marvelously Well-Mannered think the service lacks civility and decorum. It encourages incredibly rude behavior and perpetuates the idea that one does not need to be polite or gracious in today's society. It feeds on the egocentric idea that everthing is always about "me" and if one is inconvenienced or ticked off one can complain without limit and that one's own rudeness is somehow excused because someone else did something wrong.

But that is not the right way to think or behave. Remember,

"whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude." Maurice Baring.

It is marvelously well-mannered to take the high road. Unfortunately, this type of service and the behavior it encourages leads its users to a dead-end in terms of manners and decorum. This service needs to hit the road. Pure and simple.