Yes that’s right I feel a bit cranky and I need to vent. I’d like to talk about the words please and thank you. Hopefully since you are old enough to read this somebody by now has taught you why we use these words and when we use these words. BUT I have found out that MANY people have not learned. I don’t know if that means we should kick their dad in the balls and slam their Mom’s head in a drawer or what, but the idea has possibilities. So I think I need to go over this for them.
Please is a word that we use when we want something or would like something done. Please pass the butter. Please put your clothes in the washer. A little less teeth please you’re leaving marks on my dick.
Thank you are two words we use to show appreciation for the things that are done or received. Thank you for passing the butter. Thank you for putting your clothes in the wash. Thank you for using your lips and not your teeth.
Okay it is a basic explanation, but you get the point. If you want someone to be of assistance to you, whether you pay them or not, try to remember to fucking say please! And when they have assisted you say thank you so they know you actually give a shit! I’m so tired of hearing people just be dicks to one another and everybody act like it is okay! Damn didn’t their mommas teach them any better? Besides a lot of people are like me and if you don’t give me the respect I deserve I will react. 1)I will either purposely make things more difficult for you. 2)Help you look like a bigger dick then you are. 3)Or I’ll do nothing and I mean nothing extra to help you out until you basically kiss my ass until I feel satisfied!
THANK YOU all for letting me vent and PLEASE chime in with your thoughts!
12 May 2006 at 01:30 pm | #
You actually struck a major chord with me right now. I have noticed that when I am out in public 90% or more of the people that need to pass by me don’t say excuse me. More and more people just walk right in front of me as I look at something on the shelf at the video store or grocery store, and never utter a word. Sometimes they actually brush against me, and STILL don’t say shit!
On the other hand, when I say “pardon me�, or “excuse me� as I pass in front of someone, they just ignore me! They don’t reply with a “It’s OK�, or “No problem�, or even a “Um hm�. Nope, they just act as if I weren’t even there. I find that pretty high upon my rudeness scale.
Now, when I am at a store where I need to stand and look at the products on a shelf as I make my decision of what I am going to buy, I make it a point to be a human roadblock, and if a person comes along who needs to get by me, they will have to ask me first. If they just walk up to me and say nothing, expecting me to move out of their way, they are outta luck.
I can be rude too, thank you very much!
12 May 2006 at 09:42 pm | #
I guess it is automtic with me. If I pass anyone in the grocery store in front of them or just passing I say pardon me. I find more people acknowledge than not. The please and thank you came from my parents. It didn’t take too many times of hearing ‘what are the magic words’ to adopt the habit. I also smile when I arrive at a store or office or anywhere because then they remember you and next time they smile also. Besides it is easier than trying to think of something clever. Wishing a good day may seem a little old but if you mean it it will show in your voice. I honestly feel that much of today’s problems would never have developed if we had used courtesy and acknowldegement with those around us.
13 May 2006 at 06:02 pm | #
Yeah teeth are a real mood breaker! I guess that’s why is called a blow job and not a rake job!!
14 May 2006 at 09:04 pm | #
You are not the only person that has noticed a decline on simple manners!
I some how find a way to sneak in manners while i am being yelled at by some buthead complaining about about something wrong with they dvd or fees or whatever.
17 May 2006 at 01:07 pm | #
I guess for me I believe that all those bad mannered assholes will one day get theirs. It maybe when they are standing at the Pearly gates and St. Peter says, “What’s the magic word?” That it catches up with them, but it will catch up to them. I myself try to stay polite as long as possible, but when I need to I can get real ugly, real fast.