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How much does good manners cost?
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The trouble is we tend to notice when manners are forgotten rather than when they are remembered. If I meet the "forgetters" I tend to make a very conscious and noticeable effort to be extra polite in return.
But I am always impressed that up here (Scotland) almost every passenger says thank you to the driver as they get off the bus.0 -
They say thank you down here in the valleys too. but get into the cities and they don't bother.The trouble is we tend to notice when manners are forgotten rather than when they are remembered. If I meet the "forgetters" I tend to make a very conscious and noticeable effort to be extra polite in return.
But I am always impressed that up here (Scotland) almost every passenger says thank you to the driver as they get off the bus.
I am often amazed at the lack of manners displayed in shops etc - its so rare to come across a young person with good manners that we tend to comment on it! and take the bad manners for 'normal'!0 -
I think some people don't actually know about good manners. At the weekend I was having lunch at a country pub and there was a table next to us with four men in their thirties and two dogs. The dogs jumped up the waitress and none of them said please when ordering their food.
My dogs are really ungrateful too.0 -
The trouble is we tend to notice when manners are forgotten rather than when they are remembered. If I meet the "forgetters" I tend to make a very conscious and noticeable effort to be extra polite in return.
But I am always impressed that up here (Scotland) almost every passenger says thank you to the driver as they get off the bus.
There are far fewer foreigners in Scotland, not to generalise but it always seems to be the "indigenous" population who thank the driver and not the newcomers to the country.
Not that there aren't a lot of scumbags in Scotland too.0 -
Nowt.So the simple question is, how much does good manners cost?
One of my favourite expressions, in fact.
Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy
...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
I think some people don't actually know about good manners. At the weekend I was having lunch at a country pub and there was a table next to us with four men in their thirties and two dogs. The dogs jumped up the waitress and none of them said please when ordering their food.Person_one wrote: »My dogs are really ungrateful too.
I was wondering what the dogs ordered for lunch:rotfl:I'm an adult and I can eat whatever I want whenever I want and I wish someone would take this power from me.
-Mike Primavera.0 -
But I am always impressed that up here (Scotland) almost every passenger says thank you to the driver as they get off the bus.
They do here too.. not in Scotland.. though it is often 'fanks drarve' .. I think that means the same
LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
splishsplash wrote: »I was wondering what the dogs ordered for lunch:rotfl:
Wuffles ... with bark-be-cue sauceLB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
Is it good manners to point out that it should be "How much do good manners cost?"?Its a simple question. Its something we are all taught as children and something we teach our children but at times all of us are guilty at some stage of our life for not having good manners. So the simple question is, how much does good manners cost?
Please try and keep this thread clean. Thank youloose does not rhyme with choose but lose does and is the word you meant to write.0 -
Correcting a third party's grammar is never politeIs it good manners to point out that it should be "How much do good manners cost?"? Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0
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