Manners Cost Nothing

ManOfAnger strikes again!

I don't hear him complaining about the female students [/B][/QUOTE]

I stand corrected ....... now he just hates everyone under 25

i had manners once, offered some old lady my seat on the bus when she got on, the bus started and caught me off balance and i fell over, ill never be kind again

Anyone get the feeling the average age in this thread is 30+?

Kids these days eh...

no grey hairs here fella, just bitterness

I hate people with no manners it annoys me so much because I always try and be really polite!

priceless. i'd have paid to see that.

I was on a train home the other day and surprisingly it borke down so we all had to get off at York...anyway
There was a little old lady by the door who asked the guard if someone could help her get off with her case and everything, she obviously couldn't walk very well as she had a stick and the guard was like, oh well we'll try to help but there are only two of us on duty on this train.

to do what????open doors by a magical button...hardly takes 2 does it!

so we stopped and no-one came back for her so i offered to help her and carried her bag off

low and behold once i'd got off with her bag then helped her off, a guard who had actually been stood by the dor on the platform watching swiftly took the bag off me and got hold of her

no thanks from him or a sorry to her for not helping. Though she was lovely to me and said a big thank you

You'd at least expect poeple doing a job to be polite and helpful!!!

and didn't u get a feeling of well being afterwards?

imagine if EVERYONE did it??!?

yeh i like being helpful, but remember just like in friends the random act of kindness not to make you feel good about yourself thing that Phoebe and Joey had going on!!ha ha

i have alot of bad memories of buses acually the time i went to an afterparty after shindig, got the bus back to town in the morning total ill, or so i thought, it went straight thru newcastle and i ended up in the middle of nowhere.
Got to wherever it stopped and asked the bus driver if he was going back to newcastle, it didn't so i had to wait half an hour freezing for the next bus. When i got on i was shaking that bad through the cold and stupidy of the night before that i dropped the money down the wrong slots on the bus, so the bus driver had to get off the bus, go to another one to get a screw driver to open it up, whilst i stood their monged with a bus full of people wanting my head as a trophy on their walls

nothing at all to do with the thread topic but thought id share it anyways lol

I always always try and be polite and I feel you always feel better for it afterwards. At work the other day this drunk rough loud man was in the restaurant and staggered out the restaurant after eating his meal and he went in his pocket and dropped 20 pounds on the floor....nobody saw or anything and he went out onto the street but I ran after him with the money...I felt happy after doing it because I know it was the right thing to do

Re: Manners Cost Nothing

I would of said something to him in front of everyone and made him feel really small and insignificant, just like he had probably made the person serving him feel.

as i've got older i've definately become less tolerant to bad manners.

I think i use my manners too much!! I say sorry if i brush pass people in the street and stuff!! LOL

I hate bad manners, it really offends me, it takes no efforta nd all to say thankyou.

Kids in my class at the mo, get a well good telling off when they dont use their manners.... I cant belive how many of them dont kno how to use them, esp since there in year 6! xx

it was seriously the worst feeling ever at the time, funny looking back though

lol!! bless u!

I dont get what 'slots' ur on about tho!?

hahahahaha..

the therapy costing you much then?

haha the coin slots that the bus driver puts the money into, somehow i managed to get a 50 stuck in the slot of another coin, so he had to take the thing apart to get it out