I agree Tom and JR. As a "person", I hold doors, let people go ahead of me
at the supermarket, when stopped at a 4 way intersection, I will let everyone
else go since it's not worth having a heart attack over. As a "woman", I
remember the days that a man would hold a door open. Not always so these days.
I went into a restaurant the other evening, opened the front door to enter and
a young man, probably 30ish came out the door, nearly knocked me over and
didn't say a word. Thank goodness I had tennis shoes on or I'd have been on the
ground. Same thing happened to me at the post office recently. I opened the
door and a man was coming out so I held the door open for him, he jammed out
and hit the door so it closed fast and hit me in the arm. Once again, not a
word. He just looked at me like I was the one causing him a problem. Wow!! I
was in the supermarket parking lot last year and a kid about 17 yelled at me
when I walked by asking for money. I said "don't have any to spare" and that
verbally started blasting me with obscenities. I could here my dead relatives
yelling "respect your elders" in my ear!! I've heard and seen bad behavior
toward others and try to step in and give the perpertrator some "lip", but you
have to be careful these days as they may give you a big gun in your face.
As for civility onlilne, well we have dealt with that many a time right
here on MoPo. Part of the bravado is the fact that the internet is very
annonymous. While we don't have much control over the whole situation, I can
control my little part of the world and when I hear a bunch of s*** from
someone, I can tell them we reserve the right not to sell our frames to
a**holes!!
Sue
www.hollywoodposterframes.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:31:42 -0400
From: tapenn...@aol.com
Subject: Re: [MOPO] The death of civility
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Hi JR:
I agree with you 100% and like your conclusions about our society today. Right
on the mark.
All The Best,
--Tom Pennock
In a message dated 6/8/2010 4:38:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jrl...@mediabearonline.com writes:
Tom,
I've experienced the same. And worse, most of the time the person you hold the
door open for does not even say "thank you" (or say anything for that matter).
When I'm in the line at the store checkout, if I've got a lot of items in my
cart and someone comes up behind me holding just one or two items in their hand
I will wave them to go in front of me saying something like "go ahead, if
that's all you're getting". Now, absolutely *everyone* always takes me up on
the offer to cut ahead, but only about 2 out of 10 ever say "thank you" (or
anything). We have raised several generations who don't act civil because they
were never trained as kids about the basic concept of civility or common
courtesy. So when they run into it in real life, they don't even have enough
social consciousness to make a simple "thank you" acknowledgment
Not hard to understand what these generations don't have a clue as to how to be
civil online.
-- JR
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
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