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08-09-2008, 06:27 PM | #1 |
No Longer a Member | Please be Nice I believe I'm a nice person. When someone holds a door for me or steps aside to let me pass, or stops their car to let me out of a side street onto a busy street - I wave, or smile or say thank you. If someone smiles at me, I smile back. If someone in a checkout line strikes up a conversation I chat with them while we wait. It never ceases to amaze me how many people there are who don't bother with a thank you when someone holds a door for them, or just turn their head at a smile or out and out ignore people who are trying to be nice. I get so aggravated that sometimes I sometimes can't help but let them know they are forgetting their manners or that they need to get some manners to begin with. A nicely said "your welcome" (given in a little over normal volume) as they sail by with their nose in the air while I hold the door for them, or step aside to let them pass in a crowded aisle, does the trick. I can't tell you how many people get upset at being reminded they need to use their manners or need to get some. I've gotten so many dirty looks I can't count them - and yesterday a lady with her daughter yelled a snotty thank you at me. Now what kind of example is she setting for her daughter? I've taught my children to be polite and helpful to people and I've taught them by my own example, even if I'm crabby or preoccupied. I like to feel it makes the world a little nicer. Same here on Yorkie Talk, I express Please be kind esp to the newbies asking questions, they are here to learn, not be flamed . I hope I'm not offending anyone by writing this. It just really bothers me sometimes. I guess the nice thing to do is just let it pass ,give them helpful advice and move on.- but I guess some of you can't |
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08-09-2008, 06:35 PM | #2 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Knoxville,Tennessee
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| Being polite is the best thing to do. Just curious.. did someone offend you on here? I often miss whole threads so was wondering.
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08-09-2008, 06:49 PM | #3 |
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| I agree with you 100%. Thank you for posting this, I see this every day, not so much here on YT, but in my real life. I have come to this realization..."Be nice to rude people as they are the ones that need it most". I have been known to say that I'll kill them with kindness, eventually they'll break...but geez...how hard is it to say please and thank you, or to offer a smile, a kind word or gesture. I am really put off by people that want to shove their opinions down my throat...voice an opinion yes, but don't try to force it on me...I just won't have it. There, I've said my piece...so, may we have peace from now on. I don't know, maybe I expect too much. Sorry, if I do.
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08-09-2008, 06:49 PM | #4 |
Elvis+Honey=My Heart Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: North Georgia
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| I wish manners were required to be taught in school because they're really not getting taught at home, are they? I think the same as you, kindness should begat kindness...but sometimes you are left scratching your head. That's my two cents.
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08-09-2008, 07:01 PM | #5 |
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| I completely agree, as a woman I get a lot of guys that stop to hold doors open for me and what not (other women too, just more common for men I suppose) and I always make sure to say thank you,no matter what kind of mood I am in. I do the same for others, especially if I see someone who has their hands full, I stop and hold the door, my husband is the same way, and I get so irritated when either of us holds a door for someone, he will actually go out of his way and stand there for a minute holding a door for someone, and then they completely ignore it. It's amazing how rude people can be.
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