It's just plain courtesy!

[Rubina]

Hi all!

This comment tags on to two previous threads (both related to Finbar, as it happens).

"Unwelcome, overheard telephone conversations on public transport" and using the term Ma'am "an old fashioned courtesy".

I travel on the Manchester tram system to work and back and I am consistently struck at the rudeness of others! How, effectively, people don't care about anyone but themselves.

For those of you who don't use the Manchester Tram system, in the rush hour it is so packed you barely have your own breathing space and yet there are still people who take up one seat for themselves and one for their bags.

When you try to get off the tram there is always a struggle as the people waiting to get on are always two deep and trying to prevent you leaving!

There is a free Manchester Newspaper that people collect and then leave strewn on the floor of the tram or on the stations! Do these people have servants to clean up for them! They clearly expect someone else will clear up their discarded rubbish.

So, Finbar, I'm with you! Courtesy should be a given, not a surprise!

Robina

[v.wells]

Rubina, I was joking with Finbar and was not offended - just having a bit of fun:D

And I'm with you. Please and Thank you's win me over every time! There's far too much ingratitude in this world to take it with us.

[Ladkyis]

Hi all!
Do these people have servants to clean up for them! They clearly expect someone else will clear up their discarded rubbish.


They don't have servants but they have a parent that picked up their stuff for them - "because it is quicker."

I see it now with my own daughter. She never asks my granddaughter to put anything away. "oh, mum" she says, "She's only three" and I say "I know and when she is thirty-three she will still expect you to do it for her. Get her into the habit now"

My daughter just can't see the problem but she is just dazzled by her own daughter and I can understand that ~sigh~

[Jan1954]

Rubina - the London underground system is just as bad! |shakehead

[BeeE586]

When I was teaching this was a constant struggle - children just walking away and leaving anything they had dropped lying on the floor and a messy desk. I was not popular when I insisted on tidiness, and on more than one occasion was taken to task by a parent because I had made her child - invariably a girl - clear up after herself. I found boys almost always tidier than girls.

That is over twenty years ago - times don't change much do they ?

I have a 15 year old grand-daughter who began to get into sloppy ways. My son threatened to confiscate her laptop - within 24 hours her bedroom was spotless and has remained so.


Eileen

[Rubina]

Rubina, I was joking with Finbar and was not offended - just having a bit of fun:D

And I'm with you. Please and Thank you's win me over every time! There's far too much ingratitude in this world to take it with us.

Hi V.Wells!

I know that you were joking! It was Finbar's comment about courtesy that got me thinking along those "time to have a grump" lines!

Robina

[Jane Gee]

My 27 year old is a lovely chap but his bedroom drives me mad I have threatened to set it on fire (silly i know) but it is a tip too much stuff and a double bed. He is a room attendant at a hotel so perhaps that accounts for it. Cant wait for him to leave home even though I love him and will miss him.
Sometimes I really get mad he does do something then though.

[v.wells]

Hi V.Wells!

I know that you were joking! It was Finbar's comment about courtesy that got me thinking along those "time to have a grump" lines!

Robina

Yesterday I was in a long line at the grocery checkout propping myself up with my cane and holding my basket, when another cashier opened and the 3 people behind me went over to that checkout without a second glance at me!
All you can do is shake your head and be grateful they aren't your family - then they would have got a ***** earful |soapbox|

[Jan1954]

If I am ever arrested for murder in a supermarket, I am sure you will all understand! Justifiable homicide...

[v.wells]

Justifiable homicide...

And we will all chip in and bail you out:D

[Beebee]

And we will all chip in and bail you out:D

Once we've got our purses out from the bottom of our bags. :D

[v.wells]

Do they take Canadian Tire funny money over there?:D

[beachbaby]

Justifiable homicide...

Amen to that. And I was taught that a smile will always get you further than a frown, and courtesy costs nothing!

Teri