Manners a.k.a Etiquette

[Reefer Rogue]

Yeah, i hate saying hi to a customer at work and then they obviously heard me and choose not to respond. It makes me want to say I fucking said hello you dick! But, i don't...

[mulltie]

Shop assistants are the worst.. like i hand them whatever money and i wait for my change and instead of handing it to me the cunts fuck it at ya or even worse scatter it all over the counter.. and its just pure rudness..really pisses me off plus these shop owners shud think twice about who they employ stropy teenagers etc..i dont mind the migrant workers in shops.. there grande sumtimes give ya extra change and drop it straight onto your palm

[markomon]

I can relate to most everybodies pet peeves on this subject. Generally speaking I have found that the only person I can change/be responsible is
myself. I wonder if folks don't give thanks when you hold a door open for them it may be a trust issue , like what is your ulterior motive for opening that door for me? You gay or something equally fucked up. I am happy to hear that other pot users at least try to show some manners.

[JohnGalt]

I hate it when a fight's going on and, instead of trying to break it up which is the right thing to do, they pull out their phone and start recording it like a dumbfuck to sickly enjoy violence later.

Heh, I think that you go to my school :P, this seriously happened like a week ago. Two chicks were fighting and no one really tried to break them up, but people were recording it and put it on YouTube. . . The school got really pissed off about it too.

On manners though, the next day somebody chewed up a chocolate bar and spit it out in the cafeteria and everyone thought it was shit. . .Lol, my school is fucked up.

[thcbongman]

lmao.

I went to a party and the first thing I see walking in is these 2 chicks beating the shit outta each other. Well, not really but pulling each other hair and stuff. Not one person did anything to break it up. All over some dick, funny as hell, they moved all around the house and everyone form a circled and moved when they moved.

There were a couple more fights at that party, heck I almost got into a fight because one guy was trying to talk hard to the owner of the house and I backed him up, but the guy was too much of a pussy. 1/2 an hour later, while I was snorting coke in the basement with a couple of girls, the police broke that shit up. I dumped all that shit and got the fuck outta there!

[xblackdogx]

i always have good manners, like greeting a person when ordering food, holding doors open, saying thank you. i think it's funny when you say thank you to someone and they don't even respond; i can't tell if people like that are horribly miserable or just that unresponsive to polite interactions.

btw,
Great thread!

[TheGreenFog]

I say if they haven't said thank you by the time they cross by you. . .Trip them. . .lol, it doesn't have to be to the floor. Just a little stumble to shake them up. . .

^LMAO. That dooor gets me too. Kid Dynamite, I agree that it is mostly pretty women who are rude and don't thank you. I will ALMOST always thank someone when they've held the door. The only time I might not, is if I was RIGHT behind them and they didn't really hold it. I will still most of the time say a really quite "thanks." like, thanks for the effort.

Manners are very important to me and always have been. I was raised pretty strictly and table manners were like rule #1 of our house... I always got the sense that my mother saw an orderly meal as a microcosm of the life she had always aspired to, far removed from her hardscrabble roots.
So my table manners are ridiculous and I consider eating dinner in front of the TV completely abhorrent unless there's a REALLY good reason for it [*cough* red sox game].
Also thanking people!!
Huge thing for me.
Being respectful to waitstaff and retail workers is IMHO incredibly important- Having worked in restaurants all through college and then after when I was trying to buy my house, I'm apalled by the total demanding, condescending, assholes that seemingly normal people can turn into when they walk into a restaurant. Some lowly busboy comes by to fill your water, say thanks to the kid- friendliness makes the difference between a good work environment and a bad one and you both go home happier, unless you are a total douchebag who ENJOYS putting the working class in their place in the mud.
Rant!!!

I hear you completely about the courtesy in restaurants and general other business establishments. It is almost like everyone is SO busy that they act like the typical busy jerk businessman. People don't appreciate the services that are provided for them to the extent that they should, IMO. I hear people bitching about how their whole dining experience better be impeccable, or that little waiter/waitress isn't getting a dime for a tip. Then at the same time, they don't even say thank you the 4 times the waiter comes to fill up their water.

I've found that you can really almost FORCE someone to smile if you say "Thanks" and look them directly in the eyes and give them a little smile. Almost everywhere I try that, it seems to work. It's an old Sociology experiment. I didn't make it up, but I use it, and it seems to then make both parties feel a moment of "ahhh." You don't have to be a creep about it, just a GENUINE thank you weighs much more than a fleeting, no-eye contact utterance.


The Fog :rastasmoke:

[stinkyattic]

I hear people bitching about how their whole dining experience better be impeccable, or that little waiter/waitress isn't getting a dime for a tip. :

Yeah that disgusts me.
There are plenty of things the waiters can't control that I've seen people not tip over, no matter how much grace the waitperson handles it with- it's so wrong- and people don't realize that there is an alternate minimum wage for tipped waitstaff, which in my state is only like $3- something an hour.

[Spoken Word]

Or when people eat with they're mouths open.
Or when people belch REALLY loud or fart right around me.

I dunno to me manners are like making people around feel as comfortable as possible. Some people just don't give a fuck.

[pass the chicken]

any one ever had someone pick their nose and expect you to hand them the joint?