Please, Thank you, and Yes Ma'am.....

[Statler]

so do I get yelled at if this gets nudged in to the topic of similar manners online?   

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oh never mind.


Back on track...hat comes off inside unless it's a dive of a bar.  Not just for eating, but everywhere.

[Sinister]

I know many of you that live in other parts of the country other than the New England/New York area may not have a clue what I'm talking about

What the make the beast with two backs is going on with people these days? Why does everyone have to be so disrespectful/hateful to one another.

Honestly I am getting pretty sick of the way people treat one another. The rudeness and overall piss poor attitude in this country is embarrassing.

Thoughts?

Oh, yes, I know exactly what you mean.  I've been watching this for years.  What do you expect?  This country has raised a generation (or two) of adult adolescents who think that they are the center of the universe.  Think about it: most are afraid to make eye contact, refuse to acknowledge you, do not respond when you speak...just like a 10-year-old.  In an age that has been fully inculcated in moral relativism, how can you expect anything less? 

Check out, The Death of the Grownup, by Diane West.  You'll never look at that latte-sipping, backwards-hat-sporting, Chuck-Taylor-wearing, 20-something douchebag who just let a door slam in your face, the same way again.  It's a great read.

[herm]

Is it too much to ask that when shaking hands, you also make eye contact with that person?

and have a half way firm handshake at least............

i hate it when i shake a guys hand, and its like grabbing a dead fish

[Fresh Pants]

I usually hold doors open, for anyone really.
I say please and thank you.
I try to make eye contact, without using my fingers.
I usually say "thanks" with a wave if someone lets me into their lane.
I chew with my mouth closed.

I do like to set off car alarms with my exhaust, but not in my own neighborhood.
I sometimes quietly (hah!) fart in public.

[Sinister]

and have a half way firm handshake at least............

i hate it when i shake a guys hand, and its like grabbing a dead fish

Thist drives me nuts...or people who don't even shake hands, period. 

[superjohn]

You know, I was just on a similar rant the other day. People have become so self absorbed that not only have they lost all sense that anyone else exists, but they have lost any sense of cause & effect. I had run out to Wendy's for lunch, and went through the drive through as I had to get back to the office quickly. The Wendy's near my office is always busy at lunch and it's not uncommon for the drive through line to be around the building with many people waiting. The problem is, as I was trying to pull out and leave, some dipshit pulls in front of me to get in line. He wasn't going to be able to order until the 11 cars in front of him got through, and they weren't going to get through until I got out of the way, but this moron closes the loop and makes us all sit there even longer.

[Sinister]

Horn?

[rgramjet]

Back on track...hat comes off inside unless it's a dive of a bar.  Not just for eating, but everywhere.

Yeah but what if your hair is messed up?   

[Sinister]

Yeah but what if your hair is messed up?   

Then you're probably a dirty hippie...

[ducpainter]

Yeah but what if your hair is messed up?   

You're not bald.   

[Timmy Tucker]

All you nice, polite people can get make the beast with two backsed.














I keed, I keed   


The weak handshake thing really, really irks me. Grow some make the beast with two backsing balls, would ya? If a guy gives me the limp hand shake, I generally will squeeze harder than usual. When I was a kid/teenager, I had no self esteem at all. Wouldn't look people in the eye and had the most sissy-fied handshake in the world. Dad introduced me to a co-worker one day and I gave him the usual dead fish while looking at the floor. He said very loudly in front of a lot of people, "What the hell kinda handshake is that, boy?" and made me do it again. Never done it since.

[Statler]

All you nice, polite people can get make the beast with two backsed.

don't you have some foam to clean out of your scruff, hippie?

[Timmy Tucker]

don't you have some foam to clean out of your scruff, hippie?

[erkishhorde]

More than a couple times I've held the door open for my family/friends and then as I'm about to hand off the door to someone that approaches they scoot through the door and cut me off. I've also had someone tip me because they thought I was the door boy when I was holding the door open for my family and got cut off by a group of people crowding in after them before I could get in.

As for the sitting up front in the bus thing, I do. I'm young and relatively healthy.  But when an older or handicapped person boards the bus I move to the back or give up my seat if needed.

I also say thank you all the time, even at fast food restaurants when I pick up my food. Sometimes it totally confuses the servers.

I also used to pull out the chair for my girlfriend. (We're not together anymore, hence the used to.)

I'm pretty courteous most of the time but I've noticed that few people appreciate it.

[Howie]

One of my pet peeves is when you hold the door and people just keep walking through, no one says thank you and no one takes over.  The other is when people stop in the middle of a doorway to talk.

Nice rant, Tom.  Too bad you are right.