I just walked over to the c-store to pick up a six pack. One the way over I noticed several kids on bicycles and one, a black kid of around 9 or 10, was pushing his. As I drew closer I saw that both his tires were flat. I felt sorry for the kid and asked him what happened to his tires. I intended to offer to check out the tubes and patch them for him if needed as I have a full tire repair kit on hand.

The kid was so damn rude that I immediately changed my mind about helping him out. I told him so. He tried to say he was sorry, but managed to even be rude about that. I told him that being rude doesn't pay and that nice people aren't willing to help rude people.  I gave him a short lecture about how being rude to people just doesn't pay and that he'll get a lot farther in life by being polite to people than by being rude becausse nobody likes rude people.

I feel sorry for the kid having two flat tires on his bike, but I wasn't about to help him out after he was so rude to me. Hopefully the kid learned something about how to deal with people. Who knows?

Maybe I'm a big old meanie for not helping the kid anyway, but I'm human and like most humans I am simply not inclined to help out someone, even a kid, when they are so damn rude.