Bring back common courtesy. What are some courtesies you'd like to see or that you practice?

Question

I'm determined to create a buzz in our country about bringing back the lost art of common courtesy. Many of us were raised with these practicies, but it seems fewer people know how to be a good "neighbor" these days. What are some of the things you do to be courteous? (remember flicking your high beam to allow another car to pass? or holding the door for a stranger? )

Answer 1

For me, it would be nice if people walking down the street (in your neighborhood) would say HI to people in front of their houses, and vice-versa. I live in a nice suburb and its amazing to me how many people that are supposedly neighbors would prefer to just pass on by w/out even saying hi, or good evening, etc. How can you have a neighborhood w/out good neighbors? Sad.

Answer 2

Being a mom now with an 18-month-old in a stroller, I really miss people holding doors. I usually go shopping with my mom and since she's holding the door or elevator for me to get in, she will usually hold the door/elevator for someone else (usually another mom) to let them get in. Most people have such a look of shock when she does this and are so grateful. Door-holding should be commonplace again, not a shock. What I find particularly pathetic is that I was struggling with a stroller and a pull-only door by myself and once I got in, I held the door for some man who had pretty much been watching me the whole time and didn't even say thank you.

Answer 3

I would love to see the habbit of flashing your lights after you pass a police car or a police radar trap to all the oncoming cars for a couple of kilometre's. I know it is sort of illegal but i still try and practice where ever i can, and im so greatful when i recieve one in return.

Also I think unfortunatly a strong femenist movement has tended to kill off some of the old habbits of holding the door for people. I rememeber when i was a child seeing a middle aged lady absolutely scream and yell at my father because he held the door for her, and she felt offended because this made her feel inferior. I dont mean any offense when i do it, becuase i would just as quickly hold a door for a bloke as i would for a lady. So i would love to se the courtesy return

Answer 4

I like the "Hello" followed by a handshake when meeting someone. I'm also fond of the "Hello" when walking down the street. No one speaks to each other anymore.

The high beam thing can lead to accidents. That's why most people quit doing it.

I do like opening doors for people with their hands full or for any lady. I do that and people are surprised.

Also, I have three children and I have a habit of watching our for all children when I'm out. I've seen children out in public approaching dangerous situations while adults just ignore it. A todler wandering towards the street or about to fall out of a buggy at the grocery store while the mother is distracted. People will do nothing. I hate that.

One the other end, what ever happend to helping seniors. No one helps them do anything. When we're out and there's a lady trying to load 100+ pounds of groceries in the summer heat, offer to help (and refuse the $1 tip she offers) out of kindness.

Answer 5

As a christian myself, i'm no longer bowing all the way down to no man or woman except Christ Jesus and God the daddy. An body of options of affection might want to be portrayed, and interior a similar token i trust that we'd want to continuously no longer lay down and enable human beings walk throughout us both. appreciate might want to easily accept to everybody that has a a range of of perception device and as your problem grows for others that you're feeling aren't to any extent further kept; minister, pray and purely move with the punches that come to you. contained in the Bible once you've reported and function executed all you may do...brush the dirt off of your ft, pray and flow on (it is what Jesus instructed the disciples contained in the hot testomony). getting to the point....both a christian or an atheist is incorrect and all of us make the alternative interior of our own factor of religion. I challenge everybody to assert a prayer brazenly that if Jesus Christ is genuine and God is genuine to wish for Him to bare that expertise to everybody that wonders and be open about the opportunities.

Answer 6

I'd like for cars to stop completely when a pedestrian crosses the street, not approach them slowly. And no more honking the split second after the light turns green!

Answer 7

Giving up your seat to an older or handicapped person. Saying Thank-You. Saying Please. Asking to be excused from the dinner table when done eating. Eating with your mouth closed. Not talking on a cell phone in a resturant. Polite driving practices.

Answer 8

Speak when spoken too. Let the men be men, and ask for a date. Be respectable to others. Pem

Answer 9

holding doors for strangers, especially ladies. i like to do it for ladies or people of different races, because there are a lot of racists in the south(where i live), and so many people are used to being treated like second class citizens. calling people sir, and ma'am, saying please and thank you.

Answer 10

i want to see more guys giving up their seat for women on buses/trains etc. im not even the type of girl that would accept the gesture, but i wish it would happen for some other girls that would!!!