Manners cost nothing…………..these are words that were drummed into me from a very young age by my Mum and Dad. Unfortunately, while my parents were banging on that drum, it seems the parents of people I have met today were banging something else.
Please and thank you………two small words……..as John Cleese’s character Basil Fawlty said “Please is one small word, not the Gettersburg address.” I am sitting here on the plane having been subjected to new levels of rudeness which, I am sorry to say, are commonplace…….and we all accept it.
“Have your boarding pass out”
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