World without manners

Talk to the Hand coz the face ain't listening",says Lynne Truss, whose book is a heart-felt appeal against " the utter bloody rudeness of everyday life".
The book is remarkably topical, the author absolutely on the ball and she can make the reader so completely identify with situations that she finds herself in and her own reactions to the same that it feels like a first-hand experience.
Lynne Truss explain that Talk to the Hand is not a book about manners. It's about the rudeness of today's world, and the sense of outrage that overcomes us everyday as we discover that other people are, generally, crass, selfish and inconsiderate. Still, the book is not a rant against modern etiquette but more of an analysis about "an automatic eruption of outrage and frustration that can at best cloud an otherwise lovely day and at worse make you resolve to chuck yourself off the nearest bridge".
However, she does admit that manners are subjective-if we ourselves are punctilious about certain things, e.g thanks -you notes, we'll be outraged if other don't follow the same route. Thus, our dictum becomes a great indicator of social virtue." Basically," says Truss, "everyone else has bad manners, we have occasional bad moments, Everyone else is rude; we are sometimes a bit preoccupied."