Does anyone have any manners nowadays?

qetu1357

Went to Morission’s last night, someone handing out free samples of Gu desserts.

I was the only person out of the10 I observed who said please and thanks rather than just grabbed and walked off without a please or a thank you.

Why is this?

Outpost

qetu1357 wrote: »

Does anyone have any manners nowadays?

No.

Now !!!! off!

Outpost

qetu1357 wrote: »

Went to Morission’s last night, someone handing out free samples of Gu desserts.

I was the only person out of the10 I observed who said please and thanks rather than just grabbed and walked off without a please or a thank you.

Why is this?

Just a continuation of the general decline in society that's been going on for decades.

mrcow

Maybe it's the area you live in?

People are generally polite where I live. You'll always get some who are rude but it certainly isn't the vast majority.

fluffnutter

I guess you just got unlucky. Most people are pretty kind and polite. If they're not it's because they're busy (or a little bit self-important). If it were pointed out to them, the vast majority would snap to their senses and apologise for their rudeness. Some wouldn't of course. I blame Thatcher for that.

Lotus-eater

You're in the wrong shop, try Waitrose.

ps I shop in Asda and most people are like that too.

biggaz26

Outpost wrote: »

No.

Now !!!! off!

Exactly what I was going to put.


But OP you are right...please and thanks yous go a long way with me and people in general do not use them enough.

Thanks for taking the time to bring this up by the way!

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ThinkingOfLinking

At one event I was working at, they hired 4 of us security guards to watch over the area where they were giving out free samples as there had been stampedes and problems before. Seriously.

davidlizard

I find its the pensioners who have the worst manners, closely followed by mothers with young children.

If I hold a door open for them, rarely will I ever receive any word of thanks.

The people who are most likely to say thankyou in my experience are younger people, especially lads, in the 15-25 age range. When my wife was expecting, whenever she got the tube or the bus, it was always someone in this age range that immediately offered her their seat.

jjj1980

As a young-ish mother with a young child, I have also found its the older members of public and other young mothers that seem to have to least manners. I have quite often found myself struggling with a shop door and trying to get my daughter's pram through whilst other mothers and older people go through the doorway without so much as a thanks. Had one older person take the door from me and push it closed onto the pram!

There is no excuse for bad manners, even if you are in a rush or having a bad day.

Hermia

qetu1357 wrote: »

Went to Morission’s last night, someone handing out free samples of Gu desserts.

I was the only person out of the10 I observed who said please and thanks rather than just grabbed and walked off without a please or a thank you.

Why is this?

I work with the public and often really go out of my way to help someone & then they just walk off without thanking me. I think some people don't think thanks are necessary if someone is helping you as part of their job. I think there's a 'I'm paying your wages so I don't need to be grateful' attitude.