For Crying Out Loud

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RD Larson

For Crying Out Loud
Jan 1, 2004

For cryin' out loud, FLUSH the toilet. And WASH your hands. Don't give me that attitude look. Hey and don't CROWD in front of me in line. Manners have gone over the hill.

I often think about what my mother told me about good manners. She told me that good manners were really about being kind and fair to the other people in the world. She also said good manners had to start somewhere and it was starting with me.

Now when I am in the restroom, and people come out of the stall and dash through the door, I want to grab them. I want to shout in their faces. "Hey, how dare you spread germs by poor health habits. I don't want your cold or the cold from the clerk who took your money, YOU NINNY!"

Some of the these people never heard of taking turns. You ever notice that at a four-way stop you don’t get your turn? It's more like whoever has the most road rage gets to go first. How about when you're in the shortest grocery line and the person in line ahead of you has only four items. Then you realize their accomplice is running all over the store gathering at least 49 other items for what you thought was a short line. What do you do when the accomplice throws armloads of EXTRA stuff into the cart?

Some things are best left UNSAID like the state of health during a meal. I actually had to sit next to a guy who told me about each episode of gall bladder attacks that he'd had. Now my mother always said, "Don't stoop to the level of a low-life. Raise yourself above and set an example."

I am ashamed to admit it but I very nearly poured my wine into his lap. At the last moment, I caught myself, and leaning toward this dreadful man, I said "Pardon, do ya'll mind telling me who is your favorite movie actress?”

I am sure you can think of endless times when you've felt the sting of rudeness, the burn of indifference, and the anger of unfairness.

I don't know about you but I'm tired of it.

I ask you--let's join together to make life more pleasant. Let’s start a club The name of the club is DANG and it stands for Don't Allow Ninnies Grace. YOU can join my club. We don't need a leader because we're all kind and polite to one another. We take turns and we think of the other person. This isn't religion, politics or morality. This is just plain common sense and civility toward others.

When I kindly remind you to flush, do so. And keep a civil tongue in your head or you WILL get a time out.

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