Is it normal that to think teenagers are more polite than adults?

I'd agree. Adults are too concerned with their own importance to even imagine politeness is a thing they have to do. Not to say anyone over 21 is a knob-jockey, but there are certainly a few of them. Same goes for teenagers. You're going to produce a number of these idiots too. The adults who do it were once teenagers.

Truth is, there's good and bad in all of us.

I'm going to have to agree actually. I never even thought of it before I saw this question but yeah, in my experience, adults seem to be more jaded/inconsiderate. Teenagers may be more polite because they're young, have manners that were taught to them fresh in their minds and haven't yet experienced the vulgarities and harsh realities of the world ;) I know I've had moments when I get impatient with some of the ignorance I encounter but I am generally considerate. I used to live in NYC so there are varying levels of manners there... in NY, it's normal to bump into someone and not say anything. It happens all the time. It's a crowded city... you get on crowded trains, it's hard to avoid. But in the midwest, where I am now, if you bumped shoulders with a stranger and didn't say anything... people would throw a fit lol In NY it's more about not wasting people's time, being to the point, etc. with general manners like please, thank you... in the midwest it's like there's an extended effort to be nice.

It's kind of hard to say. I know a lot of kids who have great manners but there had to be an adult or person who taught it to them.

Sorry, I am an older guy and I really have to disagree. I find a lot of young people have absolutely no manners; for example they will invite their friends over and leave one person out of a shared breakfast cookout, etc., with zero explanation why one is an outcast that particular day and not only gets no breakfast, but can't even sit with them (saw this with my own eyes, nobody would explain). Or they will yell into their cell phone on their skateboard going around a skateboard-prohibited part of a mall. Or bump into people at a grocery store and not say excuse me.

In my day you would be shot for even thinking of doing that kind of stuff to someone.

Teenagers don't treat adults like they aren't people.

At my work I feel this way. Seems like the younger people talk more to me than some of the older people do. I feel like the older people act like they're "too old" or "too good" to be talking to me. The younger people are more like; "Hey, whats up?" and they actually have conversations with me. The older ones are usually all business, and look at me strangely if I try to strike up a conversation with them. Hmm.. not sure. Maybe its just me. I can't say its everywhere and with everyone though. I feel like for me, its only at my job.

I'd rather work with young/adults and for young/adults. 21-35ish. Less likely to have dirty diapers lying about, people shittin their pants, fighting over prices even after you make them a deal for their benefit, to pick up the slack for laziness and less likely to have needy stalkers or obsessively talkative people. I say less likely now. People are people. I've always been polite because it's who I am and always will be.

Depends but when it comes to retail I'd say kids are more polite, they don't argue about stupid sales prices as adults always do.

I suppose it depends... From my experiences, it's usually the adult who is more polite than the teenagers. I've met allot of people in my age group who displayed their "politeness" or lack of for different reasons. A few were genuinely polite and the rest either faked their politeness or faked nothing and were upfront with their rudeness... Most of the adults I've met had a completely different way they carried themselves. Manners were usually real and so was their level of maturity...