nobody realizes how important manners really are. the way one talks, the way one walks, the way one eats and breathes. life revolves around manners. they differentiate us from animals. they keep us sane. they keep us human. manners are important. a necessity.
jorja
I was supposed to be Ms.Manners, able to do what was proper in any situation, but what did social protocol require when the unruly sort breaks into your home and demands compensation?The good southern in me told me to grab my gun, but that would have been my sane side; the side that wanted to come out to play had other plans for my unexpected guest. Plans that required him to scream and beg. It wasn’t proper to visit a lady at such an hour. Luckily, I wasn’t proper, or a lady, for deep down within was something scratching to get out.
Feet off the coffee table. Put your elbows down. Don’t yawn in public. Don’t chew with your mouth open. The incessant nagging infuriated him. blah blah blah bullshit I don’t know not in the writing mood.
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Frankie
I’ve never understood “manners.” I mean “please” and “thank you” sure. But no elbows on the table? or no reaching across people? Sometimes, it’s just easier.
VV
Manners are a way of being polite. You use them to show respect to your peers as well as your authorities. It can make someone’s day when good manners are used. One the other hand if you have bad manners, you will likely offend your company. Just say Please and Thank You and be courteous.
Linda
I was walking down the busy downtown streets, when I was stopped by a small child of five. I bend down and ask “wad up little man?” He simply responds “why is your hair green?” I open my mouth to respond when out of no where a frantic looking women yanks the child behind her and says “Billy mind your manners” she then turns to me with a horror struck look on her face and apologizes frantically. I calmly say ” let the child be a child he didn’t offend me I have frickin green hair what do you expect him to do. Your crushing his growth.” Moms need to relax about this manners business.
I took an etiquette class when I was around 9 or 10. They taught me all kinds of manners. Most of them I do not remember at all of course. Who sends a girl that young to etiquette class? The one thing I do remember is that the salt and pepper shaker have to stay “married” at the table.
The definition of a dumb set of rights and wrongs that has been set up by society over the years. If punching people in the face during conversation was considered to be “proper,” a hell of a lot more people would be sent to the hospitals with bloody noses.
catherine
I think that they’re ridiculous. Honestly who has the right to decide what is okay and not okay or acceptable and unacceptable in public? But at the same time people really do need to rein it in and calm down sometimes because the rude people I deal with at work are ridiculous. It’s simple. Treat others how you want to be treated. Nothing else is necessary. Jahhfeelz?
catherine
Manners are instilled in most people since childhood. But as we grow old we forget what manners really do for people. It’s not just about being polite- its about making others happy they did something for you.
Katy Riordan
Manners are very important in life, especially when with strangers. When you meet someone for the first time you want to be as polite as possible, use the manners that your parents should have taught you; greet them, ask their name, be friendly. You never know when you will meet the most important person of your life.
PetitePommes
it is something that some people know, some people do not. it is a simple way of living, and it has a lot to do with a lot. a LOT. i dont quite know what this will do, but it is a beautiful idea that everyone will abide by this. talk talk talk… i know how this goes.
manners are important because if you dont have them you make yourself look like an ignorant dick. do you want people to think you’re an ignorant dick? uhm and you need to show respect…but only to people who deserve it. manners are good. they’re attractive. i like manners.
brenna
i grew up with manners, i’m very polite. but i hate manners. why do i have to smile when i’m sad only because it is pleasing to others. why must i stand tall instead of lazing around. why do they have to be minded and even worse, ordered by others who seldom have manners themselves.
michelle
When you think of manners, what do you think about? You think about please and thank you. Also, being polite to people, and doing things that you should do, anyway. In a way, it’s a way for society to tell you what to do. It’s another way for society to tell you that you need to be a certain way. When, in reality, society already tells us that we need to be “this” way.
Victoria
I keep being told that I have bad manners, but I like to think that I just have lighter social boundaries. Burping is alright as long as it’s quiet and polite-ish. I just wish Nana would stop bugging me about it.
Syd
Are boring. Sitting up straight. Being nice. Chewing with your mouth closed. *Yawn* I want to throw an honesty party where you MUST leave your PC at the door. No manners allowed. Do whatever you want to do.
Autumn leaves were never as irritating as they were laying against that stone. The man pushed them away, but more would fester across the etched markings. The man continued to brush ferociously.
Urgency swept across his face. Dismay followed in rivers from his eyes. And fright choked his throat.
“What have I done…” he sobbed “i taught you manners, ethics, courage, independence, wisdom, what haven’t I done, dammit!”
As the leafs continued rub his back in solemn encouragement he realized a very important word he did not mention.
“Love…” the man cried
The body beneath his knees would never know what a father’s love felt like.
People need manners. Without them, society is dysfunctional, families are broken and friendships are scarce and not sustainable. If we can’t be nice to our neighbor, how can we even have our neighbors there in times of emergency or need? Our families are the same, as are our friendships.
Desi
People say that manners are important. As a pastors’ kid, this is doubly true. At some points my parents’ career rested on whether or not I could be polite. I guess not. But that’s what it felt like sometimes.
Amy Pekar
Mom always reminds me on this stuff ever since I was like 5 years old or something. It’s pretty much annoying, but I guess it does help me too. A lady should always have a manner especially when being with people. If not, nobody would like you.
in the south, where i lived, manners were everything. adults were ma’am and sir and you never strayed. there, to me at least, was a sort of confining sense to that. i mean, don’t get me wrong my children will have EXCELLENT manners but nobody likes a robot…
reilly wieland.
Are our motives or the manner that we accomplish our goals more important? Every human desires to do good, to have planted a seed that would continue to grow even after their death. But if we shed blood to water the seed or crush other seeds to achieve this, does it matter? There seems to be no measuring stick to determine the goodness or badness. There is no right or wrong, black or white. We are lost in a gray sea, trying to separate the black and white.
She assumed that after all these years, he would want to know as much about her as she did about him. They stood in the parking lot talking for hours after the movie, but when they said goodnight, she realized that he had not asked her a single question. Nothing about her past, her future plans, anything she had volunteered during the night. She realized this and felt cheated. How could he be so self-absorbed? It was ridiculous.
She assumed he would want to know as much about her as she did about him. But he turned out to be incredibly self-involved, talking for hours about his own interests and experiences but never once inquiring after hers. She felt fooling standing there, nodding at everything he said and smiling to make him feel good. It was embarrassing. She knew this was a bad idea.
rita
It’s too sad, the way you are. Every time you open the door for me, it’s a heart that closes behind. Half in everything you do, half in everything you say. At least have the decency to tell me whenever you feel like leaving the dishes behind. It’s the rinsing off the soap off my eye that gets me. More than the shattered glass.
People don’t have manners much anymore. I think that we should all practice congeniality and kindness thorugh good manners. Society could change immensely if people would think more about the little niceties in everyday exchanges instead of feeling it was ok to just shout out anyhthing that comes to mind.
Maralyn
Manners. It seems that everyone has them but no one ever seems to actually use them for anything. We ignore people that don’t have them. Guys with manners are over looked by girls looking for the bad boy type. So what is the point of having manners. In todays society weseem to get what we want without any pleasres and thank yous. So, what’s the point of having manners? I don’t see the point anymore.
Morgan
They wanted me to be perfect. They expected nothing less. I was always polite and always did good in school. I always respected others and never talked back. But with being perfect comes isolation. And now I’m empty and dead inside, but perfect all the same. At least in their eyes.
Jenny(:
manners. no body has those these days. you ask someone a simple question, and they look at you like you killed their entire faimly in one shot. even if you dont want to talk to someone, its polite to atleast be nice.
via
Her manners were quaint; unlike her brother’s, who had already began picking kernels of corn and popping them into his mouth before everyone had sat down to eat. She glared at him with disdain. Her tongue itched for the buttery golden vegetable, but she had more self control. Or was it self consciousness?
avery
I’ll mind my manners
and you’ll mind yours
we’ll ooze classiness
out our pores..
bitchez.
colleen
Some people astound me. Some people cannot behave with even the slightest respect for others. Yesterday I saw a woman in the airport plow through a happy strolling couple without a second thought. Not even an apology. How many of us forget to apologize?
Katie
Manners are very important to me. In fact, I tend to get angry when people show a clear lack of manners, though I try to behave politely, regardless of my frustration, because I have manners. I wish I could teach others better manners. Like the fictional Will McAvoy, “I’m on a mission to civilize.”
Matt B
Hahaha, I think of the British and their preppy manners. “Hold the teacup candle between your thumb and forefinger. Exactly two teaspoons of sugar…”
Dicipline
Rules
Children
Parenting
Listening
Restaurants
Dinner
Chloe
Manners? Do I have them?
Do you have them?
Shouldn’t you say goodbye before you turn your back on me?
Shouldn’t you thank me for helping you become who you are?
Of course I’m shouting in your face
Another one may take my place
She was so hungry her manners escaped her. She lunged at the plateful of fried chicken with eyes wide open and and belly full of pain. The soldiers looked away.
nobody realizes how important manners really are. the way one talks, the way one walks, the way one eats and breathes. life revolves around manners. they differentiate us from animals. they keep us sane. they keep us human. manners are important. a necessity.
I was supposed to be Ms.Manners, able to do what was proper in any situation, but what did social protocol require when the unruly sort breaks into your home and demands compensation?The good southern in me told me to grab my gun, but that would have been my sane side; the side that wanted to come out to play had other plans for my unexpected guest. Plans that required him to scream and beg. It wasn’t proper to visit a lady at such an hour. Luckily, I wasn’t proper, or a lady, for deep down within was something scratching to get out.
And she seemed to have gotten her chance.
Feet off the coffee table. Put your elbows down. Don’t yawn in public. Don’t chew with your mouth open. The incessant nagging infuriated him. blah blah blah bullshit I don’t know not in the writing mood.
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I’ve never understood “manners.” I mean “please” and “thank you” sure. But no elbows on the table? or no reaching across people? Sometimes, it’s just easier.
Manners are a way of being polite. You use them to show respect to your peers as well as your authorities. It can make someone’s day when good manners are used. One the other hand if you have bad manners, you will likely offend your company. Just say Please and Thank You and be courteous.
I was walking down the busy downtown streets, when I was stopped by a small child of five. I bend down and ask “wad up little man?” He simply responds “why is your hair green?” I open my mouth to respond when out of no where a frantic looking women yanks the child behind her and says “Billy mind your manners” she then turns to me with a horror struck look on her face and apologizes frantically. I calmly say ” let the child be a child he didn’t offend me I have frickin green hair what do you expect him to do. Your crushing his growth.” Moms need to relax about this manners business.
I took an etiquette class when I was around 9 or 10. They taught me all kinds of manners. Most of them I do not remember at all of course. Who sends a girl that young to etiquette class? The one thing I do remember is that the salt and pepper shaker have to stay “married” at the table.
The definition of a dumb set of rights and wrongs that has been set up by society over the years. If punching people in the face during conversation was considered to be “proper,” a hell of a lot more people would be sent to the hospitals with bloody noses.
I think that they’re ridiculous. Honestly who has the right to decide what is okay and not okay or acceptable and unacceptable in public? But at the same time people really do need to rein it in and calm down sometimes because the rude people I deal with at work are ridiculous. It’s simple. Treat others how you want to be treated. Nothing else is necessary. Jahhfeelz?
Manners are instilled in most people since childhood. But as we grow old we forget what manners really do for people. It’s not just about being polite- its about making others happy they did something for you.
Manners are very important in life, especially when with strangers. When you meet someone for the first time you want to be as polite as possible, use the manners that your parents should have taught you; greet them, ask their name, be friendly. You never know when you will meet the most important person of your life.
it is something that some people know, some people do not. it is a simple way of living, and it has a lot to do with a lot. a LOT. i dont quite know what this will do, but it is a beautiful idea that everyone will abide by this. talk talk talk… i know how this goes.
being polite and nice to others.
manners are important because if you dont have them you make yourself look like an ignorant dick. do you want people to think you’re an ignorant dick? uhm and you need to show respect…but only to people who deserve it. manners are good. they’re attractive. i like manners.
i grew up with manners, i’m very polite. but i hate manners. why do i have to smile when i’m sad only because it is pleasing to others. why must i stand tall instead of lazing around. why do they have to be minded and even worse, ordered by others who seldom have manners themselves.
When you think of manners, what do you think about? You think about please and thank you. Also, being polite to people, and doing things that you should do, anyway. In a way, it’s a way for society to tell you what to do. It’s another way for society to tell you that you need to be a certain way. When, in reality, society already tells us that we need to be “this” way.
I keep being told that I have bad manners, but I like to think that I just have lighter social boundaries. Burping is alright as long as it’s quiet and polite-ish. I just wish Nana would stop bugging me about it.
Are boring. Sitting up straight. Being nice. Chewing with your mouth closed. *Yawn* I want to throw an honesty party where you MUST leave your PC at the door. No manners allowed. Do whatever you want to do.
Autumn leaves were never as irritating as they were laying against that stone. The man pushed them away, but more would fester across the etched markings. The man continued to brush ferociously.
Urgency swept across his face. Dismay followed in rivers from his eyes. And fright choked his throat.
“What have I done…” he sobbed “i taught you manners, ethics, courage, independence, wisdom, what haven’t I done, dammit!”
As the leafs continued rub his back in solemn encouragement he realized a very important word he did not mention.
“Love…” the man cried
The body beneath his knees would never know what a father’s love felt like.
People need manners. Without them, society is dysfunctional, families are broken and friendships are scarce and not sustainable. If we can’t be nice to our neighbor, how can we even have our neighbors there in times of emergency or need? Our families are the same, as are our friendships.
People say that manners are important. As a pastors’ kid, this is doubly true. At some points my parents’ career rested on whether or not I could be polite. I guess not. But that’s what it felt like sometimes.
Mom always reminds me on this stuff ever since I was like 5 years old or something. It’s pretty much annoying, but I guess it does help me too. A lady should always have a manner especially when being with people. If not, nobody would like you.
in the south, where i lived, manners were everything. adults were ma’am and sir and you never strayed. there, to me at least, was a sort of confining sense to that. i mean, don’t get me wrong my children will have EXCELLENT manners but nobody likes a robot…
Are our motives or the manner that we accomplish our goals more important? Every human desires to do good, to have planted a seed that would continue to grow even after their death. But if we shed blood to water the seed or crush other seeds to achieve this, does it matter? There seems to be no measuring stick to determine the goodness or badness. There is no right or wrong, black or white. We are lost in a gray sea, trying to separate the black and white.
She assumed that after all these years, he would want to know as much about her as she did about him. They stood in the parking lot talking for hours after the movie, but when they said goodnight, she realized that he had not asked her a single question. Nothing about her past, her future plans, anything she had volunteered during the night. She realized this and felt cheated. How could he be so self-absorbed? It was ridiculous.
She assumed he would want to know as much about her as she did about him. But he turned out to be incredibly self-involved, talking for hours about his own interests and experiences but never once inquiring after hers. She felt fooling standing there, nodding at everything he said and smiling to make him feel good. It was embarrassing. She knew this was a bad idea.
It’s too sad, the way you are. Every time you open the door for me, it’s a heart that closes behind. Half in everything you do, half in everything you say. At least have the decency to tell me whenever you feel like leaving the dishes behind. It’s the rinsing off the soap off my eye that gets me. More than the shattered glass.
People don’t have manners much anymore. I think that we should all practice congeniality and kindness thorugh good manners. Society could change immensely if people would think more about the little niceties in everyday exchanges instead of feeling it was ok to just shout out anyhthing that comes to mind.
Manners. It seems that everyone has them but no one ever seems to actually use them for anything. We ignore people that don’t have them. Guys with manners are over looked by girls looking for the bad boy type. So what is the point of having manners. In todays society weseem to get what we want without any pleasres and thank yous. So, what’s the point of having manners? I don’t see the point anymore.
They wanted me to be perfect. They expected nothing less. I was always polite and always did good in school. I always respected others and never talked back. But with being perfect comes isolation. And now I’m empty and dead inside, but perfect all the same. At least in their eyes.
manners. no body has those these days. you ask someone a simple question, and they look at you like you killed their entire faimly in one shot. even if you dont want to talk to someone, its polite to atleast be nice.
Her manners were quaint; unlike her brother’s, who had already began picking kernels of corn and popping them into his mouth before everyone had sat down to eat. She glared at him with disdain. Her tongue itched for the buttery golden vegetable, but she had more self control. Or was it self consciousness?
I’ll mind my manners
and you’ll mind yours
we’ll ooze classiness
out our pores..
bitchez.
Some people astound me. Some people cannot behave with even the slightest respect for others. Yesterday I saw a woman in the airport plow through a happy strolling couple without a second thought. Not even an apology. How many of us forget to apologize?
Manners are very important to me. In fact, I tend to get angry when people show a clear lack of manners, though I try to behave politely, regardless of my frustration, because I have manners. I wish I could teach others better manners. Like the fictional Will McAvoy, “I’m on a mission to civilize.”
Hahaha, I think of the British and their preppy manners. “Hold the teacup candle between your thumb and forefinger. Exactly two teaspoons of sugar…”
Dicipline
Rules
Children
Parenting
Listening
Restaurants
Dinner
Manners? Do I have them?
Do you have them?
Shouldn’t you say goodbye before you turn your back on me?
Shouldn’t you thank me for helping you become who you are?
Of course I’m shouting in your face
Another one may take my place
She was so hungry her manners escaped her. She lunged at the plateful of fried chicken with eyes wide open and and belly full of pain. The soldiers looked away.