Please, Thank You and Youre Welcome?

[Quarter Horse]

I was a kid in the 50's and lived in New England until I was ten. There were rules for everything. How you greeted people had a set of rules. How you ate had another set. How you addressed the police, the firefighters, or sheriffs deputies had it's own set. The rules for treating a lady you were accompanying were pages long. By the time you were ten you knew who Emily Post was and you were sure that your mother and all other mothers in your world read her every night. It was called etiquette. It still exists but it seems to be practiced rarely particularly by the young.

The reason you learned and practiced all of this was simple. To not do so would reflect poorly on your parents and nobody wanted that. All you have to do is go to the grocery store to realize that mind set has almost completely disappeared.

In any case, being well mannered entails deference for others. No deference for others leads to coarseness in speech and actions. That's where our society is now.

LL had a signature line which expressed this well.

 

[Maggot]

I was a kid in the 50's and lived in New England until I was ten. There were rules for everything. How you greeted people had a set of rules. How you ate had another set. How you addressed the police, the firefighters, or sheriffs deputies had it's own set. The rules for treating a lady you were accompanying were pages long. By the time you were ten you knew who Emily Post was and you were sure that your mother and all other mothers in your world read her every night. It was called etiquette. It still exists but it seems to be practiced rarely particularly by the young.

The reason you learned and practiced all of this was simple. To not do so would reflect poorly on your parents and nobody wanted that. All you have to do is go to the grocery store to realize that mind set has almost completely disappeared.

In any case, being well mannered entails deference for others. No deference for others leads to coarseness in speech and actions. That's where our society is now.

LL had a signature line which expressed this well.

And they are words to live by.

 

[W54/XM-388]

The rules for treating a lady you were accompanying were pages long. .

And if you actually did them these days, you might be attacked by the SJW horde and run out on a rail...
Apparently you can't even open the door for a woman without the SJW gang attacking you...
It seems however you are safe if you just treat everyone like dirt according to the new standards.

 

[Maggot]

2-23-1 - 8-1 - 8-1 - 8-1 - 8-1 !!!

Gee, I never got my decoder ring.

 

[Quarter Horse]

And if you actually did them these days, you might be attacked by the SJW horde and run out on a rail...
Apparently you can't even open the door for a woman without the SJW gang attacking you...
It seems however you are safe if you just treat everyone like dirt according to the new standards.

In some cases I'm sure you would be correct. Overall I don't think so. If I am at a table in a bar or restaurant and another couple is joining our table I stand until the lady is seated. The same goes for ladies, it's almost always plural, returning from the powder room. The party is almost always multi generational and if I am standing by myself the remaining males are usually getting "that" look from their wives or dates.

The form of address that I find really offensive is "bro".