Manners do not cost a penny!!!

Perhaps it is just me getting old and miserable{although I like to think that the latter is not so) but what has happened to good manners?
When I was a kid if I did not say “please and thank you” at the appropriate times, I would get a swift clip round the ear from my father, and although I may not have liked it at the time it did make me remember my manners.
It seems nowadays that these simple words no longer exist in some peoples vocabalary.
I work within the public sector , and in one day can actually serve anything up to 150 people. I like to think that I am always cheerful, polite and helpful doing the best that I can to give customer satisfaction. We all have “off” days, but even so I try to mask that and carry on as usual. So what is it with some people?. You greet them with a smile, response - nothing, you try to converse with them, response - grunts, and then when you have finished what was requested of you and you say “thank you” or goodbye they turn on there heels without so much as a murmur.
I was also taught that good manners don’t cost a penny and I agree with that, so why is it that so many people do not seem capable of those simple words.
Now woe betide if you happen to say “no” or cannot for some reason do as they request, suddenly there mouth’s open wide and a tirade of the most disgusting language pours out!!!. Don’t get me wrong, I am no prude and am guilty of the odd outburst myself, but there is a time and place for it and I don’t think that it is in public, especially when the person it it directed to is either doing their job, or trying there best to help but is truly unable to rectify the matter.
Come on all you who work in the public sector, tell us your stories, and maybe we can put our heads together and think of a way to beat these ill mannered people at their own game without actually behaving in the same unacceptable manner as they do.

Add comment October 4th, 2007 WhiteRose

You will never beat nature

Well things are just getiing back to normal after the floods. Don’t get me wrong I was nowhere near as badly affected as some parts of the country but all the same the water did come in. We were woken by our daughter to say that the garden/yard was floodeed, but at that time all was well indoors. A quarter of an hour later, and there was water in the kitchen. Hubby scurries about taking the plinths of of all the cupboards and shifting the washing machine, fridge and freezer onto pieces of wood to protect them.
Next step, how to get some of the water out of the yard!!! Well wheelie bins do come in handy. There’s hubby and my daughters partner filling the wheelie bin, trundling it up the lane to empty it into the nearest drain that had not overflowed.

I went off to work leaving them hard at it. By the time that I got home that evening things seemed a bit better. Someone had got us a pump to help pump the yard out, the fire brigade had been and emptied several gallons of water from the manhole and things were getting sorted. The one thing that comes across at times like these is how people are willing to “muck in” and help, muck being the operative word because as you may guess, clean water was the last of my worries it was all the other “waste” that was causing far more problems!!!

Anyway as I sit here telling this little episode, the sun is shining and the birds are singing and all that seems in the far off past, that is until the next time. Global warming, what a load of tosh.This is Mother Nature at her worst, and lets face it, that is one thing you will never beat.

To all those of you who were far worse off than me, I wish you well and hope that you get some form of normality back into your lives as soon as possible.

Add comment July 10th, 2007 WhiteRose

Is it just nature

Really do not know what to do for the best sometimes, do you just let nature take its course or should you intervene. Hubby was walking down the lane minding his own business (or so he tells me) when right in front of him are 2 cats having a whale of a time with one poor ring necked dove.
The cats somehow drop the poor bird and run off, leaving it quite badly injured on the ground. Hubby picks the bird up, brings it home and proceeds to put it in my washing basket with some seed and a saucer of water, never thinking for one moment that it will survive!!! Home I come from work to find this bird not only still alive but looking quite perky.
So tonight at about 9.30 there I am pestering the local farmer for some hay or straw so that I can make it more comfortable and so far although it cannot fly it is surviving. So the big question is “should hubby have intervened or should you just let nature take its course?”

Add comment June 12th, 2007 WhiteRose

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