You must be off your trolley to do this

THE rise of the Me-Me is hardly surprising in an age when old-fashioned manners and consideration for others have given way to uncouth and selfish behaviour.

- PETE PHEASANT

You might have come across the Me-Me's work: a car straddling the only two parking spaces left at a leisure centre, for instance; a cigarette butt dropped inches away from the bin provided; a mobile phone on loudspeaker in the bus seat behind you...

The signs are everywhere and it takes a resolute soul to resist the idea that most people are interested only in themselves.

I came across a particularly inventive Me-Me outside my local Tesco.