I still tend to use mine but so many people are just damned rude.


I was given a lift to Wallgate station today by my brother, he timed it so i wouldn't be waiting long in the rain.  I thanked him and arrived on the platform just as the train arrived.


I could of easily stepped on that train, but an elderly woman dropped her shopping just in front of me.  I stopped and helped her gather her things watching my train pull out out of the corner of my eye.



She never even said thankyou  all i got was a 35 minute wait in the cold for the next train wondering why i bothered 

I know that feeling hun................................

Thing is....people like us get all the satifaction and thanks we need from knowing in ourselfs that were good,helpfull  and kind people....

and as long as wee know that...thats all that matters................

Id rather go away knowing...i tryed or offered to help....rather than go away thinking i could have offered....but i didnt.............

it was just one of those i'm such a mug moments hun i would probably do the same again 

aye same here to your last post

I love manners.......always a please and a thankyou from me..and go out of my way..its just the way i am................

Manners cost nothing but mean everything ... and I can't abide people without them.

One of my daughters first words was 'Ta' (as in thank you), people always comment on her good manners.

Manners are important and my two have always been polite. Pleased to say at 16 and 14 they haven't forgotten about them

The 3 and 4 year olds I look after are doing very well remembering manners too, its an important part of learning I think

I'm a stickler for manners

I hate people who never say please or thankyou...especially drivers

We say it all the time to the babies at work whose ages range from 6 to 16 months ...get em young i say

my kids don't get till they say please simple as that.  Not often i have to remind them these days, think thats what my parents must of done with me, because please and thankyou comes naturally to me.

I suppose what bothered me about this incident is, it's usually the older generations you hear moaning about the lack of manners.  She saw me heading for the train as she was walking right towards me and i was heading sideways to the train door.  But when her bag gave, i stopped immediately and gathered her stuff.  She did nothing to pick the shopping up herself.  This i didn't mind figured she had trouble bending or something tbh it was quite painful for me.  She just stood there with a carrier bag held open for me to drop her goods into, then when it was all safely in there walked away without a murmur.

I always use manners- its how i was brought up.doesnt cost anything & pollite to do so


My son is good with his too thankfully

I think alot of it is also to do with young people and there sociall escapisum............

in this age of social networking,vanity and wanting to be popular,alot of the young kids ailenate them selfs from the world...using there mobiles,ipods and the online social networking sites as there artifitial window to the world......

Theoreticaly there distancing themselfs from the real world...and retreat into there own little world......a world that is safe and they control...they can be whomever they want to be..........

Problem with that is...they live in the real world....and thats harder for them to deal with......

This is usualy based on an avercity and lack of confidence to interact with the real world....hence the use of interective comuniction between people is something there uneasy with.......and showing manars or even talking to people is something they prob want to do but dont know how to.........

At least you have the satisfaction of knowing you helped someone cas...........not many people would have stopped and lent a hand as you did.

My 2 year old twins constantly say please and thank you which is nice 

One of the things we love about living the US deep South is that manners still exist. Now, the nice manners may not always be 100% genuine but hey, who cares. Going to the post office and the shops it's very pleasant to  be treated politely. The children are raised to say 'yes ma'am and no ma'am' to all adults. Children who you get to know call you by your first name but preceded by Miss or Mrs. I love being called Miss Dee by our neighbour's children.....it's friendly yet polite. When we grew up we called adults who were close family friends "aunt" or "uncle' - kind of the same idea really.