SeeksOnlyOne
Posts: 2012
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im going to be brave and reply before i read this thread......ugh.... i try to show everyone good manners. i say yes maam and sir to everyone i perceive as "older" than me, such as my parents generation. southern manners are bred into you young and firmly....they dont go away as you get older, and i sometimes wish i would have put the yes maam and yes sir into my son more strictly but the fact is, most folks my age, me included, dont like being called maam or sir, at least the ones i am family and friends with. i guess we are the cause of the degeneration of all thats holy, but thats for another thread. that said, 6 years on line had made me a bit, shall we say, jaded. folks can sometimes pretend to be something that they are not even close to being on here, and although i trust my radar most days, i am more suspicious of folks on line where i cant see their mannerisms, etc. i try to read and hear things with an open mind, but since i live in my head, im sure my experiences in life affect how i read and interpret some things that are "typed". but i cant change that, i can only try to give thought to all sides of something before replying, if i even feel the need to reply. as for the online respect of a d vs an s.......they will both be give the same amount of manners and respect as anyone else, until they give me a reason to not want to give them any more. and could i misinterpret something? sure.....im only perfect on thursdays, it could happen. maybe we disagree on something, and disagreement is not a bad thing......everyone doesnt have to like or agree or get along with everyone....it would be a boring world...i think we do have to try to maintain some amount of maturity, but, sometimes ya gotta call a diamond a diamond, and sometimes ya gotta call a pile of manure a pile of manure........irregardless of whether they have a d or an s as their so-called label.
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it aint no good til it hurts just a little bit....jimmy somerville in those moments of solitude, does everyone sometimes think they are insane? or is it just me?
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