Have you ever wanted to strangle the buffoon bellowing on his cell phone in the middle of a peaceful morning in your favorite Starbucks? Well, the flame-haired and very witty syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon does the next best thing. She calls him at home – after all, everyone within a 10-mile radius heard his personal information – and tells him what it’s like on the receiving end of his riveting rant. That’s just one of the hilarious tactics (and there are many more, including how to deal with telemarketers, car thieves and the Bank of America’s lack of security measures which led to her identity theft) that Amy used in her “battle to beat some manners into impolite society,” as she so aptly puts it on the cover of her book, I See Rude People. *For more on manners, see one of my favorite movies of all time, Jerry Maguire. Do you think technology has made us more self-centered? Do you have a story about trying to make the world more civilized?

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