The Polite One's Insights

  This interview was to be a part of a new podcast but never aired.  We enjoyed our time together so much I felt the need to share this with you.   Acceptable Manners Different Today vs When You and I Were Kids? For the most part, general manners remain the same generation after generation.  Most of us know to say “Please, thank you and excuse me.”  Most of us know to hold the door for those behind us.  However, “etiquette” changes with each generation and now, even more often.  Etiquette is a set of rules society creates over a period of time.  For example, in my earlier years, it was considered impolite to talk loudly on a shared home phone.  It was also considered impolite to “hog” the phone.  Today, we—as a society—have decided that talking loudly on a cellphone in public is impolite.  Thus, manners are much the same, but how we apply them changes over time.  Biggest Manners Missing in Society? From my experience, it is the simple act of greeting others that is overlook