Quote 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.

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