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QUOTE (KiwiTek @ 28 October 2012 - 08:34 PM) | Another example I've started to notice recently, and I'm not sure if this is just a kiwi thing or world wide, but when parents are talking to their kids about another adult they call the adult by their first name instead of Mr, Mrs, Ms etc. I actually saw an example of this yesterday when my neighbor had visitors and the visitor told her child to go and say "thank you" to Ken for letting you play here instead of "Go and say Thank You to Mr --- for letting you play here."
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I know what you mean. I don't have anything against using Mrs/Mr "first name", but nowadays they don't bother with the Mr or the Mrs part. I was tawt that you show respect this way and it just drilled itself into me. Unless it's someone i know well i'll use their name. I was once really taken aback at a family gathering. I met my nephews for the first time, they didn't know my name and i'm like twice their age and they called my a "girl"????
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Yet again today, some great examples of how not to raise your children. It's more crowded now the shop due to the beginning of the skiing season. (I wonder if Mac still ski and if he need some new stuff. ) Sometimes, I would just like to grab a kid and tell him to behave when he's not behaving. Too many parents in my opinion are also lacking in saying that. A little too much it happens that they say: "if you don't behave, I'll get angry." I was thinking: 'Just get angry already.' I think I wouldn't be very Mac-ish as a father. I think I'd be much much more strict. Depending on the age maybe. Like the topic title: manners and courtesy cost nothing. Just a little effort maybe. You know, Rush To Judgment has a very fine example of courtesy. In the beginning when they're on the bus, MacGyver, the old lady and the man are discussing Danby's case. When the man claims he knows enough on the case, the old lady points out (can't exactly remember what it was) he actually shouldn't rush to judgment because of skin color I think. She than says: 'Isn't that right, MacGyver?' And he later replies with 'Mrs...' whatever her name was. It shows respect for an elder person.
I think the poison that was used was applied to this knife, passed to the mutton when it was cut and then activated by the wine. - MacGyver. Sometimes you just have to die a little inside to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you. It's better to be a little sad than to be fake content.
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Growing up my parents made sure that manners and courtesies were ingrained into me. My parents were only to happy to let me watch MacGyver for a multitude of reasons, but one because the show had the main character (hero) having real human emotions and shown him that being a hero does not mean you have to be gruff and rude. I think it helped me to realize that helping people is more of a noble notion than that of ignoring situations and believing that someone else can take care of it or let it be an others problem. For the last 18 years, since age 20, I have served as a public servant in one way or another. I find it rewarding to serve and help others. I partly can thank the MacGyver show helping to reinforce what my parents had taught me, which now I am teaching my children.
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Things have gotten so bad between the PC contious and the Security contious that now it's "wrong" for us to show our manners?? For example, at work there is a new rule in place for the contractors at the facility (I'm not a contractor). They were told they are not allowed to let anyone "piggy-back" on their access card when entering the building. I am very security contious and I have no problem with that part when it comes to visitors, vendors, or any other unknown person. However, they are including their co-workers in this directive. So, I was stopped along with 2 other co-workers by a person who would not allow us to go through the door after they had opened the security lock. I would understand if it were a regulation that we all had to swipe our card for the system to recognize that we were there, but that is not the case. She just made us wait until the door re-secured and we had to use our card to open it. Then the next day I was trying to hold the door open for this same lady as I was exiting and she was entering and she stopped, held up her hands, and said "I'm sorry I cannot piggy-back". So I let go of the door and walked off. Is it just me??? Am I just crazy? I mean, now it's wrong to hold a door open for someone I work down the hall from 52 weeks a year???
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