Janet Collins
Jason KingLet us all just be a little more polite Please
February 21st 2011 06:32
Hi everyone - I have joined Janet in her crusade to make the world a better place - that and I just don't want her to lose such a fabulous site. A few of you should know me - I run SaltyPopcorn.com and SydneyTable.com and also Total Randomness and rarely but occasionally post on Morgan's Movie Train. You could say I am a regular addict of Orble or a blogging prostitute but that would be against the entire idea of Etiquette and all things polite and nice now wouldn't it. 
Big thanks to Janet for allowing me to join her fabulous site and I hope we can just make a few people more desirable to be around.
For my first article I just wanted to start with something basic - being polite - saying please and thank you. It is not a hard thing to do in the slightest and it is courteous to those around us. Should your grandparents see most of the people of today they would commence World War 3 themselves just to make us all a bit nicer. It used to be a simple gesture of thanking anyone that offered you a service or even held a door open for you. In today's culture it is hard enough getting anyone on a bus to even stand up and allow a pregnant lady to sit down as happened to a female friend of mine last week who was 8 months pregnant - it was quite obvious she was about to pop and yet no one had the decency to assist her with a seat. What has happened to us as a society?
FIFI Box from 2DayFM also wrote an article about this same thing on the weekend. What she noticed was that people didn't believe they needed to say thank you if they were getting paid for a service - I will only ever see about three people in an entire journey on a bus thank the bus driver, Fifi noticed with the office cleaner that emptied her bin - she always said thank you but noticed no one in the office did. She questioned her colleagues and received the responses of "it's his job". This man (or lady) was being paid to keep their office clean and they believed this made them a lower class citizen that did not deserve any respect or courtesy. That man or lady probably has three kids and has worked their butts off their whole life to be treated like a slave by the people she serves. NOT COOL.
In today's society, it seems something is missing. Manners and politeness have disappeared. The definition of manners is: characteristics, styles, behavior, and type of action or way of acting towards something or someone! Politeness is defined as: relating to or having the characteristics of advancement as in society or culture or being marked by an appearance of thoughtfulness or consideration and common courtesy and tactfulness. It is so important to express words of praise and teach our children and others to use politeness at all times.
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My mild gripe and suggestion to you all is just to be a bit more mindful of the people around you - they are all people with a life story - not people lower down the food chain for you to step on. Thank that person if they do anything for you regardless of them being paid. Try and do some random acts of kindness for yourself and the world - hold a door open - allow someone to sit down and just be nicer - think of it as soup for the soul
It will cost you nothing and make someone smile - if that was used by many more people a mexican wave of kindness could spread through society. As Fifi says "Manners shouldn't be conditional - they should be genuine expressions of gratitude".
Good day to you all, thanks for reading and enjoy your day!
Big thanks to Janet for allowing me to join her fabulous site and I hope we can just make a few people more desirable to be around.
For my first article I just wanted to start with something basic - being polite - saying please and thank you. It is not a hard thing to do in the slightest and it is courteous to those around us. Should your grandparents see most of the people of today they would commence World War 3 themselves just to make us all a bit nicer. It used to be a simple gesture of thanking anyone that offered you a service or even held a door open for you. In today's culture it is hard enough getting anyone on a bus to even stand up and allow a pregnant lady to sit down as happened to a female friend of mine last week who was 8 months pregnant - it was quite obvious she was about to pop and yet no one had the decency to assist her with a seat. What has happened to us as a society?
FIFI Box from 2DayFM also wrote an article about this same thing on the weekend. What she noticed was that people didn't believe they needed to say thank you if they were getting paid for a service - I will only ever see about three people in an entire journey on a bus thank the bus driver, Fifi noticed with the office cleaner that emptied her bin - she always said thank you but noticed no one in the office did. She questioned her colleagues and received the responses of "it's his job". This man (or lady) was being paid to keep their office clean and they believed this made them a lower class citizen that did not deserve any respect or courtesy. That man or lady probably has three kids and has worked their butts off their whole life to be treated like a slave by the people she serves. NOT COOL.
In today's society, it seems something is missing. Manners and politeness have disappeared. The definition of manners is: characteristics, styles, behavior, and type of action or way of acting towards something or someone! Politeness is defined as: relating to or having the characteristics of advancement as in society or culture or being marked by an appearance of thoughtfulness or consideration and common courtesy and tactfulness. It is so important to express words of praise and teach our children and others to use politeness at all times.
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relating to or having the characteristics of advancement as in society
- we as a society are moving backwards! We are not advancing - we are so selfish we have completely forgotten to say a simple thank you and yes please. I constantly tell my staff "what was the last word?" meaning - please or thank you was missing - most of them think it's really funny but they just repeat the last word they said. My mild gripe and suggestion to you all is just to be a bit more mindful of the people around you - they are all people with a life story - not people lower down the food chain for you to step on. Thank that person if they do anything for you regardless of them being paid. Try and do some random acts of kindness for yourself and the world - hold a door open - allow someone to sit down and just be nicer - think of it as soup for the soul
It will cost you nothing and make someone smile - if that was used by many more people a mexican wave of kindness could spread through society. As Fifi says "Manners shouldn't be conditional - they should be genuine expressions of gratitude".
Good day to you all, thanks for reading and enjoy your day!
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