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#22
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Location: Norfolk, VA
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I agree a whole lot. I've taught my kids and we teach my grandkids to say thank you. They wouldn't think of getting up from the dinning room table without saying thank you for the meal. I told them it doesn't matter if you didn't like it but if someone makes the effort thank them. At work people get on the elevator and just say what floor, like it's your job. They don't say please or thank you nothing. I was in a bad mood one day and someone was being rude the way she barked out her floor # and I said Please, thank you very much and she just looked at me like it was a foreign language. Manners can make a difference in someone's day; even if you don't know them. I smile at everyone.
#23
Originally Posted by orangeroom
Just taking a poll. Do you say "Thank you" to someone ahead of you if they hold the door open for you?
I teach my children to say it. However, we've noticed that very few people say "Thank you" these days.
I teach my children to say it. However, we've noticed that very few people say "Thank you" these days.
#24
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Location: Norfolk, VA
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Originally Posted by hobo2000
Times really are changing in a weird way. I am a little old grey haired lady who most people hold the door for me ,etc,etc. However, recently, due to a neurological problem, I have been using a cane. Suddenly, I have disappeared. Doors literally slam in my face. People rush past me nearly knocking me over. Yet, when I go without my cane, on my good days, the doors are held for me. What's up with this? I don't like what this portends!
#30
Originally Posted by litacats
funny you should ask that tonight.
I was at chicken treat and the young girl serving upset the man next to me because she didn't say thank you for his order or thank you when he paid for his meal. when ever she should have said thank you he said it for her (sarcasticly) it just went right over her head, he complained about the lack of manners in young people today. I must admit I said something to him to the affect that it is the person that trained her that should have taught her better but then the buck doesn't stop there why didn't her parents teach her manners. it doesn't cost a thing to be polite and people respect you more for being polite.
I was at chicken treat and the young girl serving upset the man next to me because she didn't say thank you for his order or thank you when he paid for his meal. when ever she should have said thank you he said it for her (sarcasticly) it just went right over her head, he complained about the lack of manners in young people today. I must admit I said something to him to the affect that it is the person that trained her that should have taught her better but then the buck doesn't stop there why didn't her parents teach her manners. it doesn't cost a thing to be polite and people respect you more for being polite.
I am teaching my kids to say thank for for things, and you're welcome, etc. I took them trick-or-treating and when I prompted them to say thank you, the guy was like "Oh, don't worry about it, none of them say thank you anymore." And I know a kindergarten teacher who tries to teach her kids thank you and please and such, and then hears stories back from them that at home their parents make fun of them for trying to be all polite and fancy.
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