Manners

My parents always went on to me about Manners and I always say Please and Thankyou.

Im so polite to my friends parents its unbelievable xD Just a simple thing like saying "Yes Please" or "No Thankyou" leaves a really good impression.

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Originally Posted by Rye

Please tell me someone feels as I do. Let us share our terrible experiences of people who don't have proper manners. ;________;

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I know what you mean. All people without manners should be skinned alive and have their jaw chainsawed off.

I would share my experiences with people without manners, but there's too many to count.

My manners are directly relative to 2 factors - my temper and whether or not the person themselves shows manners. Since i am usually angry and few people have manners, rarely do I show them.

Hmmm...I would say on a daily basis I show little or no manners at all.

I am very polite to elders and other polite people.

Any other Puntos! Forget it! They would kill me for the little money I had if they
had the chance : I

I sometimes get annoyed at myself because it feels I have too many manners. -_- I say "pardon" instead of what and I say thankyou to people at shop counters when they take what I'm buying, hand me the change, hand me the receipt AND then the bag, xD! so three to four times. :eep: I open doors for people often and never push past people in the corridoors, which sometimes means I'm waiting for ages for them all to move. It's also partly due to being quite nervous. If people push past me I don't comment either. I sometimes end up waiting for ages for tonnes of people to come out of a door so I can get inside one of the school buildings, xD! It really annoys me when people don't even say thanks! -_- But I've been brought up to have immaculate manners. When I was young, we were even told off at school if we held our fork the wrong way! -_- Geez. Ah well!

I alwyas try and be polite. I hate it when people are rude....I can take rudeness if I like the person and we are friends....say a mate going 'oi, idiot, pass me *insert object here*. Thats fine...but whenever I'm around people I don't know I'm formal. I hold doors open for people, help people with luggage if I can see they need help and I make a concious effort to carry this over in my driving too...I hate rude road-users.

One thing that I dislike is people taking liberties with food...eh, its an odd thing I know, but no matter how well I know someone I can't stand them taking my food without asking. Even if its bestest ever friend, if they try and snaffle some of whatever food I am currently eating without asking...oooh there is trouble.

Anyway yeah, food aside, I like manners....treat people how you want to be treated. I don't hold with this 'be nice to people if they are nice to you, and be rude to them if they are rude to you lark..' If someone is rude to you, smile politley, get the moral high ground and dont give them the satisfaction of seeing you make a tit out of yourself, because you'll both go away from the encounter thinking 'omg, how rude were they....?!' Counter-productive.
Anyway, I'm not making sense now, so I'll stop....

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Originally Posted by Chaos

One thing that I dislike is people taking liberties with food...eh, its an odd thing I know, but no matter how well I know someone I can't stand them taking my food without asking. Even if its bestest ever friend, if they try and snaffle some of whatever food I am currently eating without asking...oooh there is trouble.

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Ugh, my dad does that!!! It really gets on my nerves, and I end up swearing at him...there is a plus though, I don't get told off for shouting at him, cause my mum HATES it when he takes food from other peoples plates. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Rye

Where, oh where, have manners gone?

I think I am of a dying race. It's called people with manners. When I was brought up as a kid, I was always made to be polite to people, and if I wasn't, I'd get in trouble, as it should be. If I didn't say thank you to someone, my Mom would yell at me for not being polite, and I'd say it and apologize. Are manners a thing of the past or something? :(

I mean, even just saying thank you when someone holds a door open for you. Is it SO hard to do now? That's my biggest pet peeve, when people don't thank you when you do that. I don't really do anything about it besides say "Your welcome" sarcastically to myself, though I think I'd be perfectly justified dragging the person back to the door and smashing their face into it until they learn. Though, I do have manners, so I don't do that.

And the idea that people need to attend manner classes is just dumb. All you need to do is teach your child to say please, thank you, sorry and to not to be obnoxious in public. The latter meaning that if they're in the movie theatre, to not run around and scream, that kind of stuff. That's all. That's ALL I ask.

But I pity the children, as it's not their fault, it's their terrible parents who have no manners and don't even have a part in raising their children, so they dump them in a daycare all day. If you can't take the time to teach your kid to say please and thank you, then you shouldn't be having children. Period. As harsh as that sounds. :p

Please tell me someone feels as I do. Let us share our terrible experiences of people who don't have proper manners. ;________;

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Thank you for posing this, you deserve one of crops rare usernotes.

Anyway, I agree, im very polite to people when they give me things or do something for me. There is some goodness in the world, just the other day me and a friend got onto a bus, they dont give out change and it costs £2:00 together (£1 on our own) we only had a five pound note so we just reluctantly gave him that. We sat down and a women whom I had never seen before gave us change from her own pocket, I did try and stop her but she insisted. That wasnt really manners but good hearted.

And one time my mum held the door open for a man and woman and they didnt even say anything so when they walked back in I slammed the door shut just when they were about to come in. But they deserved it.

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Originally Posted by Chaos

Anyway yeah, food aside, I like manners....treat people how you want to be treated. I don't hold with this 'be nice to people if they are nice to you, and be rude to them if they are rude to you lark..' If someone is rude to you, smile politley, get the moral high ground and dont give them the satisfaction of seeing you make a tit out of yourself, because you'll both go away from the encounter thinking 'omg, how rude were they....?!' Counter-productive.
Anyway, I'm not making sense now, so I'll stop....

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You don't have to "make a tit out of yourself" to treat people the way they deserve to be treated. Things must be different where you live to where I do. Because here they get their satisfaction from the fact that they can be as ill mannered as they like and people haven't got the guts to say anything to their face about it.

Manners schmanners. I eat with my fingers, and curse at any given occation. Hell, I'll curse for no reason at all.

Of course, I am a polite, urbane gentleman with enormous genitalia to boot.

I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door?!?"

It's impolite to talk about gripes, complaints, and general angst so publically, as well as so immodestly crying out something akin to, "Yes! I'm a polite person and I will rag on some other people with you!"

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Originally Posted by Rye

Where, oh where, have manners gone?

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Tell me about it. Today I was walking in the hallways of my school and I had to walk through this area to go to my locker, but this guy was blocking my way. I said, "Excuse me." He didn't move, because I don't think he heard me but I proceeded to walk through politely trying to squeeze through without touching him. Then the unthinkable happens; the guy's elbow came in contact with my forehead. It was then that he finally realized I was trying to get through. So he laughed and said, "Where are you walking?" As if it's my fault I just got pounded in the face. He didn't even apologize or say excuse me. Even if he had said nothing it would have been better than laughing in my face.

I use my manners! because if I don't I get in serious trouble... shut up!

I don't like maners.

they are a false image of who people really are.

I have maners out of habbit, but when I'm holding a door open for someone I am thinking in my head "i wish they would Hurry up or die so I could stop holding this damn door for there lazy ass", and to them it looks like I a nice guy when really I'm a jerk who wishes them harm.