Wow Phil. Your town sounds amazing.
Toochis
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On Jun 6, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Phil Edwards <p...@cinemarts.com> wrote:
I live in a small town too, a fishing village on the mid north coast of NSW.
The only time it's busy are the Christmas and Easter holidays when it's a
tourist destination for people from Sydney or out west.
People say hello as they pass each other while out walking their dogs, or even
when they aren't
walking their dogs and just jogging or walking.
People in shops one frequent regularly talk about their weekends, their
families, and you do too. Local kids play out on the street, go surfing.
During whale migration season the cliffs are full of people whale watching.
During the holiday season when the bucks are made by the local cafes,
restaurants and fishing co-ops, one can tell the tourists by their rude and
arrogant manners, and total disregard for road safety of any kind.
If you hold the door open for a local, they say thank you. If you do the same
for a tourist, they wonder what the "motive" is.
I spent 50 of my 60 years being an urban dweller - Sydney, London, New York,
LA, Paris.... and now I can't imagine living back in Sydney or London or even
LA. I haven't been back to NYC for years, but Paris is still high on the list
to go to again with someone special.
As for the subject line, all forums and groups go through trainwrecks, and all
have members who seem to have bad patches. My guess is Bruce is right with his
list - a little bit of everything, or a lot of one of those things. The
relative anonymity of group members is you can say things and behave in a way
that you wouldn't do face to face... because you might get a flattened nose out
of it.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Hershenson
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Is it my imagination or are many movie poster forum members
REALLY...
There's a difference between you big city boys and us small town fellas. In
West Plains it is EXPECTED that you hold a door for any lady, and you get odd
looks if you don't.
2010 West Plains reminds me a lot of 1960 Great Neck, New York, except I am 50
years older!
Bruce
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>
wrote:
I always hold teh door for any woman and frequently wait for one walking
towards where ever I am and it doesn't matter if she's a foxy babe or not..
I was taught that you hold the door and always let a lady go first.
But it isn't practiced by very many and I even see guys trying to beat women to
doors or squeezing by them without any respect.
the responses you get from ladies goes from, as Tom said, cautious to very
thankful
there is always the "oh. are you holding the door for me. I haven't had a man
do that for me in ages"
and the just walks right on by and doesn't even look at you or say thank you,
but those are few.
the great percentage of women you hold a door for are very happy and always
offer you a smile and say thanks..
At 05:15 PM 6/6/2010, Tom A. Pennock wrote:
Not too long ago I was at the Post Office and I took the door to hold the door
for a woman. She looked at me puzzled as to what my motive was or what I was
going to do. Then she realized I just wanted to open the door for a lady and
had some manners. Really sad when you can't even hold a door open for someone
without your motives coming into question.
--Tom Pennock
In a message dated 6/6/2010 8:05:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
sya...@gmail.com writes:
Me too.
Civility seems to have eroded everywhere. Many times I pick up multiple
packages from my post office box and I can count on less than three fingers how
often people coming in will hold the door.
Nathalie
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>
wrote:
At 01:56 PM 6/6/2010, Franc wrote:
I think a general lack of civility is everywhere, not just in on-line forums.
FRANC
I couldn't agree more with this
the reality is that when you have certain tv stations, radio hosts and other
leaders spilling vitriol on a daily basis it permeates throughout. One major
over-riding factor however is this: people have come to believe that everything
they think is right IS while thinkng everything other people think about IS
NOT. It's an inability to look objectively ate things and understand there is
give and take, what's good for the goose is what's good for the gander and
regardless of whether you agree with your opposites or not, you're supposed to
treat people with mutual respect as well as respect the beliefs of your
opposites.
it isn't confined to America, but admittedly our nation is a hotspot for such
behavior
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