I volunteer for an organization that deals with young adults. One of our goals is to teach them some mannors such as saying please and thank you. One instance last night turned sour and required us to ask one of the young adults to leave the building.
It began when I was put in charge of handing out an item. If one of the young adults came up to me usually they said "Could I please have a ..." and I would gladly give them whatever they requested. But my buttons started being pushed by another young adult who came up and demanded something. To which I replyed, "I dont respond to demands, but if you ask me nicely and say please, I would be more then willing to help you." To which he said "I dont even say please to my own mom" At that point I said, "Then you wont get anything from me". Needless to say shortly after he started causing problems, and was asked to leave when he started cussing.
How could I have handled this situation better?
2007-08-01
10:05:59
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calcdffirefighter
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