March 01, 2006
This has always bugged me, but of late I’ve noticed a rapid increase in the lack of manners and common courtesy in people. On television shows, at the gas station and at work, almost everywhere I turn people don’t use it. I guess this really bothers me because I’m teaching my boys to say “Please” and “Thank you”. Even Clone will politely ask for a drink and say “thank you” when it’s received. Yet many adults just seem to think it’s a waste of their time.
Not that I want to be a politeness police and start correcting people. After a couple of incidents that happened today, I’m ready to stop assisting people that can’t ask me nicely. That includes some of my peers at work. How hard is it to say, “Contagion, could you please rerun that report for me?” Instead I got, “You need to rerun that report for me.” When I gave it to the individual I received the response, “I’ll look at it later when I have time.” At this gas station this morning I hear, “Give me two packs of cigarettes.” The cretin couldn’t add a “please” to the end of the sentence.
Maybe IÂ’m being too nitpicky, maybe I should just realize that polite society is about dead anymore and give up my archaic ways.
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Posted by: MathCog Idiocy at March 01, 2006 06:41 PM (jZWjU)
And I hate my boys saying, "Yeah" to anyone, in particular wait staff. I make them say, "Yes please" or "No thank you" if I catch them. It pisses me off.
And I make them say please and thank you to each other. I'm sure I'll get ragged on when they're older, but I don't care.
Posted by: Bou at March 01, 2006 10:10 PM (iHxT3)
Me? Don't really give a damn.
Heck, I say "Thank You" when a policeman gives me a ticket! And I do not respond to people who request things from me without saying "please." I just ignore them as if they've said nothing. It makes people hate me, but since I hate people, we're all happy.
Posted by: Ogre at March 02, 2006 06:06 AM (/k+l4)
But - on the flip side, if I'm wwwaaaaayyyyy nice - yeah, that just means you are in serious trouble in my book.
:-)
Posted by: Tammi at March 02, 2006 07:14 AM (lfQya)
I can't stop myself now.
Thanks.
:-)
Posted by: Harvey at March 02, 2006 07:35 AM (ubhj8)
People now a days have no idea what manners are.
Posted by: Machelle at March 02, 2006 07:39 AM (ZAyoW)
Perhaps you SHOULD be Politenessman, flicking his stainless hankie at impolite evildoers like a ninja star. In your "Kilt o' power", prepared to (politely) expose your "cheeks of doom" to the impolite.
Man, I gotta stop taking this sudafed first thing in the morning.
Posted by: og at March 02, 2006 08:37 AM (m52cG)
Posted by: Oddybobo at March 02, 2006 09:22 AM (6Gm0j)
Hell, I also seem to make an impression when I raise my hand and say, "Bless you, you bastard."
Posted by: That 1 Guy at March 02, 2006 11:06 AM (r6QnX)
Posted by: Jenna at March 03, 2006 11:23 AM (f/kUC)
With my son I could barely get 2 words out of him when he was home - he tended toward grunting instead of talking. But I would harangue him mercilessly about politeness and phone etiquette. To say I was surprised when people would tell me how polite he was (as a teen) was a vast understatement. But man it makes you feel good as a parent!
Then he went to Basic. When we took him out for Burger King (his request) for his first day of graduation - I nearly fell over when he said "Yes Ma'am" to the woman waiting on him. *grin* So the Drill Sgt got him to be even more polite than I could.
Posted by: Teresa at March 03, 2006 11:48 PM (FZwDL)
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