There's still hope for the younger generation...

[Chuckie]

Wow! Lots of mixed emotions on this topic. Ya know, all I was saying when I started this thread, is that I was proud of a young man who took his cap off at the table. I realize that this is a lost art, same as opening doors for ladies and standing up whenever you shake hands with someone.

The handshake conversation is a COMPLETELY other animal that I could rant on about as well, but we'll talk about it another day.

Looks guys (and gals ) I'm just one guy, with one opinion. My thoughts and a couple of bucks won't get you much more than a cup of coffee. I was just taught what I was taught and I don't expect the younger generation to understand it at all.

But I know in my heart that those fellers older than me WERE taught respect for people and property, and always, always, always removed their hats at the table. I just don't know why or when they stopped respecting what their elders taught them.

Oh well, I'll shut up now and stop thinking out loud and keep my foolish comments to myself.

No, no . . . we LIKE to hear your foolish comments

 

[El Pablo]

So, think the founding fathers too off their absurd powder Wigs to write the Declaration of Independence or the constitution?

 

[Glock 'em down]

Like a lot of threads, I don't see many people upset here. Some agree, some don't. If someone holds a different opinion than you, it doesn't mean they are upset or angry about it.

Yeah, I know that and trust me, I'm very thick skinned. I just have my silly little pet peeves that while important to me, aren't to others.

I've noticed as I've gotten older, I do more goofy and quirky sheet than I used to. My daughters both say I embarrass them a lot whenever we're in public.

 

[ssgrock3]

It is courteous as well as being a gentleman to take one's hat off while dining. That's part of the trouble these days, people don't like to follow rules or care if they are courteous. They don't want to follow any rules or for that matter the law and that's why a lot of them resist arrest and end up in the morgue-because they're too stubborn. Sort of ruins a cop's day and the family of the one shot.

i would suspect, a lot of those kids haven't been taught etiquette and such. Manners are taught.

 

[Chuckie]

Yeah, I know that and trust me, I'm very thick skinned. I just have my silly little pet peeves that while important to me, aren't to others.

I've noticed as I've gotten older, I do more goofy and quirky sheet than I used to. My daughters both say I embarrass them a lot whenever we're in public.

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Congratulations. You are finally reaching the age in life where you can start to be an embarrassment to your kids, instead of them being an embarrassment to you. Life is good

 

[Glock 'em down]

Congratulations. You are finally reaching the age in life where you can start to be an embarrassment to your kids, instead of them being an embarrassment to you. Life is good

Oh yeah, I get constant face palms and eye rolls from the whole fam damily.