Common courtesy

[silvercobwebs]

After enjoying lunch witb my fellow old lady of fandom dantesvendetta, I was waiting for the bus, tapping along to music on my iPod shuffle when a little old lady gently tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if I knew if the bus would be going to such-and-such a place. Turning off the music (it's a good thing I wasn't singing along, because I don't think she

Comments

[hagakaze]

You forgot to include 'tapping along' with your favorite songs -- be it air guitar, tapping fingers/foot, etc, etc. In other words, "playing along" in some way. :)

[silvercobwebs]

Oh yes, tapping along! I'm guilty of that myself. Have restrained myself from air guitar, though. ; D

[almond_tiger]

When mothers warned their children the tickybox would come, that tickybox was me. It's true.

[silvercobwebs]

Did you kill all those tickyboxes?

[dantesvendetta]

I find it rather worrying that a simple act of politeness seems to be so sparse for so many people.

I know what you mean. There's been times at work when I've done things like carrying for people or something like that and you'd think that I'd offered to buy a house for them! People are strange. Mind you, I was gobsmacked when someone gave up their coat for me when I was cold! :o)

I find it frightening that all the people on my friendslist that have poll options, ALWAYS include a vote that contains the answer "tickybox!".

And they don't all know each other...

[silvercobwebs]

The tickybox is a universal phenomena *g*.

[silvercobwebs]

I think any time you approach a stranger, there's a fear of them being rude or a psychotic ax killer

A very good point, and one that I should have realised, considering I can be a little paranoid about those things myself, and I'm still a relatively young whipper-snapper.

It's a horribly trite, cliched, and probably impractical thing to say, but I do wish that everyone could just be generally civil to one another...

[xfunkydoryx]

I seem to find that a lot too and it bewilders me, although given that I have a pretty cynical view and am always pleasantly surprised when someone offers their seat or something like that, I probably shouldn't be so thrown.

There was this one time at church though when a girl came to join her friends in the same row I was in but there wasn't any room for her. I said she could sit in my seat and moved a couple of rows away and by her reaction, you'd think I'd thrown myself in front of a bus for her. A couple of weeks later at another event, I bumped into the girl and she thanked me profusely again. It kind of bothers me that she'd be so grateful for it when it happened in church - a place I'd hope would be filled with people that wouldn't think twice aboutdoing similar.

[silvercobwebs]

Heh. You'd think that church would be the first place to be full of good-will to all, but of course things are never so simple...