Manners

Have you ever experienced road rage?

For some time, I have been wondering if civility and manners are getting worse. It seems like even little things like saying please and thank you are not in fashion anymore, which is sad. I also wondered if technological advances and the use of the internet, email, and social media…

How It Goes Painful To Be Well-mannered Among The Fools, Learn To Stay Happy A person with lot of social manners often feels alienated in the company of an ill-mannered one. In spite of learning and practicing the social norms and disciplines what does make a civilized person unhappy? …

What’s something that makes you super mad?

On Mother’s Day, your restaurant’s wait staff are people, too. — WBBM 780AM All News radio caught my ear this morning. Be kind to your wait staff when taking Mom out this Mother’s Day, said the morning host. What does that mean? I googled. The results were shocking. From The Bitchy Waiter: Every server knows that working on Mother’s day is hell. In fact, if…

A Short and Incomplete List of Things Currently Annoying Me — It’s been a long time since I’ve foisted a ranting listicle on my hapless readers, so I plan to rectify that today. Here is a brief and incomplete list of things you should all stop doing — immediately, if not sooner. I’ve helpfully divided my tirade into sections to make…

Relativity. Someone once wrote about several parts of the country. Each area had its negative communication problem, he wrote. The California area: people are fake. In the New York area, and the Northeast in general: people are blunt and often obnoxious. The South: sweetness up front but fake. Always judge…

Reserved seating sounds simple enough. We reserve a specific row and seat number, then all that’s left for us to do is sit there! Unfortunately, you really do struggle with even the simplest of fucking notions, don’t you? Whether on an aeroplane, on a train, at the cinema, or any…

There is a lot to be said about someone’s manners, their respect for their fellow human and their consideration for their immediate surroundings, through the simple observation of whether or not they push their chair in. So you must be a right arsehole. The first and most obvious reason why…