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Smile at every person, please and thank you for everything. I hold all the doors.
At work there's fire doors that open both ways, but there's no handle, so you always have to push the door open. It's especially awkward when someone is right outside the door opposite you because you can't pull it open for them, but you can't exactly push it open into them. I always step right back and gesture for them to come through with a big smile on my face, then when I can finally get a grip on the door I stand behind it holding it open for them.
It sounds really dramatic when typed out like that! I think I downplay the whole thing with a kind of shy playfulness.
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I don't think please is as necessary a word as it used to be. I would always ask nicely and as long you do that please is not really needed. Of course, thank you should always be used.
Holding doors for people is always good manners unless they are too far away. I get a little annoyed if some holds a door open for me when I'm still about 10-15 feet away. This means I have to break into a little run to accept their gesture. I know this is totally unreasonable as they are just doing a nice thing but I can't help it!
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Maybe you can play a game with how far away you can be and hold a door open. Spot someone really far away and then hold open a door.
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It was imbedded into me at an early age so I always say them. If I see someone coming I'll hold the door open for them.
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Holding doors is simple. It's always confusing when people do the reverse though. I never know what to do! :confused:
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I'm polite to an absolute fault, to the point that I become a doormat quite often. Even if I'm slightly annoyed by a favor (for example: "Jordan, fetch me this", and they're like, nearer to it than I am) I will still do it regardless. My politeness directly correlates to my dislike of saying no to people.
I also ensure to have exceptional manners in homes as well. Whenever I visit a home or a house (and I have time to prepare) I will always give them a guest gift, as a way of thanks for accepting me into your home. Size and scale depends on how long I'm staying and the occasion, obviously. Like, I'm going to stay at Sam's dad's place in Switzerland for our holiday for over a week, so that necessitates a box of chocolates, or something like that. A simple few hours may be like a smaller box, or something. Whatever it is, it has to be something.
I say thank you, please, hold doors open, make eye contact generally when people are talking... I do have my moments of impoliteness, of course, but I strive to be as polite as humanly possible. I'd struggle not being polite.
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Yeah, I'm a polite person. Like Shauna, it's just the way I was brought up.
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Me too, I always ask before stabbing anyone to their death or robbing their house clean and eating their pets alive. :bigsmile:
Manners are important. :bigsmile:
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Christmas even has manners on top of everything else incredible that she has
