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In reply to the discussion: I was taught to say please and thank you. [View all]meadowlander
(4,412 posts)51. What goes around, comes around.
My first week of college back in the 90s I noticed an elderly man trying to go down a flight of stairs with no banister. His whole body was trembling and he was trying to grasp at some fern fronds and tree branches at the side of the stairs for balance. Dozens of students were streaming past him ignoring him but I stopped and offered him my arm down the rest of the stairs.
Turns out he was a professor in my department. We had a very interesting conversation about Yeats going down the stairs and then the rest of the way to his office and when I ended up in his class a few years later I rocked an A+ with not much effort.
You never know what you're going to get yourself when you make time for people.
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I've long been annoyed by the right's disdain for political correctness because
Lonestarblue
Jul 2021
#20
ive been taught same. a while ago, a friend of mine asked me if being polite
AllaN01Bear
Jul 2021
#29
When I was a silly young feminist, I'd bristle when someone politely held the door
summer_in_TX
Jul 2021
#73
Captain Kangaroo said it every day. "Always remember the magic words; Please and Thank You"
Midnight Writer
Jul 2021
#45
Can I be an old grump about young people clogging up the priority seating on busses?
meadowlander
Jul 2021
#50
I was taught these things and kind of done them throughout life almost as a reflex.
GoodRaisin
Jul 2021
#87