Manners- An Audio Fail

O.k it has been a while since I have had a rant but this is something that is very close to my heart.

Especially today after a rather more than usually challenging day in the office when manners would have made life fractionally more bare-able.

1. Don't interrupt someone when they are talking
2. Don't talk over someone when they are talking
3. LISTEN to the other speaker.

I am not sure there is anything more irritating than someone doing all three during a conference call. It is the hight of ignorance and I would love to "audio-slap" people when this happens.

Please don't confuse 1. with 2. there is a quick interruption which is one thing (and moderately bare-able based on frequency i.e. low) vs. deciding to simply shouting over the person who is trying to make a very reasonable point.

Can you send adults back to primary school to learn the basics of appropriate social engagement??

I bet they all snatched in the playground as kids!

Manners

I think I am becoming increasingly more intolerant as I get older, I just don't understand why the concept of basic manners is so difficult for people to grasp.

I always try to be considerate of others and would hope that would be reciprocated but more often than not it isn't.  I find myself fighting the urge to give these people a clip around the back of the head and from somewhere within my personal history, genes and through generations of women utter the immortal words of:

"lift your feet when you walk"

or

"it is not "wha?!" it is WH-AT!"

In a way that is so arresting that people pick their feet up when they walk, hold doors open, say "Please" and say "Thank You" and rediscover their manners.

Here are some of the things I wish people would do . . .

• Hold the door open for someone when its clear they are about to go into the same room as you

• Say Please and Thank You

• Don't ignore someone when they are speaking to you

• Pick your feet up when you walk

• Park your car with consideration for other residents

• Pick up after your dog

• Apologise when you bump into someone

Grrr

[technophobe alter- I am still trying to work out how to get images back on my blog via my mac air, in the mean time imagine a picture of a really cross lion, roaring very loudly!!]

YES

Finally worked it out, Thank You Husband (credit where credit is due!)