So, I went to the Silent Wings Museum for the "USO Show." The performers were song and dance performers from the Moonlight Directions http://www.lubbockmoonlightmusicals.org/moonlight-directions/ and the band called the Funessence are something like that. It is a newer band in Lubbock, and plays big band style music.
The band started the show, although there was no announcement. Many people in the audience continued to talk during their playing. That is so rude!
But am I surprised? No. People access their cell phones during movies, in the middle of dinner, in churches. Years ago, I went to a funeral. There were several doctors in the gathering, and I noticed them pausing at the entrance of the church to silence their phones and/or pagers. But the soccer moms did not, and one even paced back and forth at the back of the church talking on the phone while the service was continuing! She did not even have the common courtesy to step outside the room! How rude!
Showing posts with label manners. Show all posts
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Monday, October 6, 2014
Changing conventions
I remember when I was on a business trip in Austin, Texas, in the early 1990's. I worked then, as now, for the State of Texas, and we were ensconced in an upscale hotel that gave the state a rate for employees on business. At breakfast, I asked the waitress if I could get a diet Coke instead of a coffee. She was not sure: she had not served diet Coke for breakfast before. I got my diet Coke. The next morning, a couple of other patrons asked for soft drinks for breakfast, too.
Now, it is not unusual in fast food restaurants as well as sit down restaurants to get soft drinks at breakfast. (Truck stops served soft drinks at breakfast for years before this.) So much has changed in our society in the last 20 plus years.
Conventions change. Our society has become so much less formal over the years. This is not bad, except that we have lost some of the politeness and consideration that went with the formality. Good manners do not require formality. They just require consideration of other people. We should not confuse the two.
Now, it is not unusual in fast food restaurants as well as sit down restaurants to get soft drinks at breakfast. (Truck stops served soft drinks at breakfast for years before this.) So much has changed in our society in the last 20 plus years.
Conventions change. Our society has become so much less formal over the years. This is not bad, except that we have lost some of the politeness and consideration that went with the formality. Good manners do not require formality. They just require consideration of other people. We should not confuse the two.
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