WHAT HAPPENED TO COMMON COURTESY ?.............
Submitted by eldoggg on October 22, 2009 - 2:59pm
......I remember times when "the neighborhood" brought fruit baskets to newcomers..........I've met several newcomers to the neighborhood lately and NOBODY has given them a fruit basket yet........what gives folks?.............how bout a loaf of bread or a cake or SOMETHING?................lol...........show a little hospitality..........
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It's not just "Welcome to the Neighborhood!" that needs help. It seems that people don't want to hold doors anymore. I have two recent examples of going to Quik Trip...
First one was I waited for about 2 or 3 minutes for a woman and her children to pick out what water they wanted. Inside my head, I thought "Come on, lady, the evian isn't any better than the nestle water" to myself, but didn't say anything out loud. When they finally made their selection, I grabbed the door and said "thank you"... she must have not heard me because she tried to shut the door anyway, and didn't bother to apologize when she turned around and saw me starting for the water.
Second example was picking up soda before friends came over to my house to play Wii and eat pizza. I had five or six 12-packs of soda in my arms after paying and starting to make my way out. There were three women coming in that decided they'd walk in the side I was walking out of, even though I had a full load. Since they didn't have enough common courtesy to hold the door, I made sure I said "thank you" anyway.
I guess common courtesy and politeness are two things that are in danger of extinction.
.....that's a good point watchdog..........your observation of the "indecisive water people" made me laugh........it reminds me when I'm at Micky D's , and after waiting in line for 4 minutes , the 800lb person in front of me can't decide what they want........while the clerk waits..........and waits................and I wait..........and wait............so I'm thinking "what the heck is the problem here , McDonald's has been around for FIFTY freakin YEARS..........this isn't a NEW menu...........and we BOTH know this isn't your first trip HERE...............oy vey.........you should know this menu like the the' Pledge of Allegiance'".......give them a giant everything and a diet coke for 'pete's sake' and be done with it...........ROFL................
eldoggg
My favorite comedian, John Pinette, on "waiting in lines" at restaurants:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUlf1F05gTA
Unlike a LOT of comedians out there, his comedy is CLEAN !
DRaasch, there is actually a comedian out there that is clean? WOW, has hell froze over!
Well, I say that and then I realized that he says "B*tch" in the middle of that clip. Mr. Pinette only occasionally swears, thank the Lord.
Check out his other clips on Youtube! His stuff about buffets is hilarious! I've got one of his DVD's and a CD. He doesn't do comedy that much, it seems. He does do movies and theater occasionally, as he was in one of the Punisher movies and has been on Broadway.
I'd be happy to deliver a fresh baked loaf of whole wheat bread, who & where is the new arrival?
fishermans daughter......good to see you again..........you have a sweet spirit about you...........your aura permeates your posts.......
eldoggg
You are very kind. If you don't mind me asking, how did you come up with the name eldoggg?
.....this name is an evolution from L-DOG........eldo is another variation I'm called...........I used to sell Caddy's and drove a lot of eldorados.........I was also called "L" by a black friend .........so I'm not exactly sure if that morphed with "hey dog"(slang greeting phrase)..........into "L-DOG".........but I HATE hip hop and rap so I never would have used that spelling........I'm a HUGE fan of four legged dogs in general , and I don't really like my real name , so it was a natural selection for me..........
eldoggg
Heh.... and I had thought maybe it was because you were "eld"...erly! <grin!>
Just kidding!
Robo Dave?......now where did you get THAT idea ?..........from Cecil Harvey?................ROFLMAO...........I haven't handed anybody their @ss in a few years..............but I'm like that "battle scarred" labrador that lays on the porch most of the time...............when the moment of truth arises , I slowly get up.........joints creaking a little ........a little slower than times past..............having lost a few steps as they say.............but I STILL got fight in me..............as the old saying goes...... "it's not the size of the dog in the fight , but the size of the fight in the dog".............. ha ha ha....................I used to think 40 was old.............now 50 is the new 40 (if you're 50)..........lol............I don't want to live long enough for somebody to change my diapers anyway.........of course when I'm 80 I may feel differently..............it surprises me that I made it a half decade really...........I used up at least 4 or 5 lives..............I did see a video the other day abut a news story.................the lady on it had a head that looked old enough to have worn out THREE bodies.............ROFL................
eldoggg
Hello DRaasch! Where did you come up with that idea at man? LOL.... That was funny! He is our guard dog on here and I must say a dang good one too! HELLO ELDOGGG!
WELCOME FISHERMANS DAUGHTER!
Hello Dragonlady, thank you for the warm welcome.
Your welcome, I don't think I've seen you on here until now! From the sounds of it you have been, but I've been extremely busy so I don't always get to greet the new bloggers. I hope you enjoy our dis"fun"ctional blog here, we have tons of fun, so enjoy yourself and don't take everything personal. Especially from me, I usually get a little brutal and I don't mean it. I've been on here with a few others for a very long time and we love our little hometown blog. So what's up with the name there girl? Definitely different!
Oops! I should have checked back on this thread. How do you keep track? I chose fishermans daughter because my father is an avid fisherman. :)
LOL.... You can go to the link My Acct and track every blog you have been on and make sure I didn't miss a post, but that doesn't always work either...... Cool, I was just interested in knowing why you chose that name and there is nothing wrong with it at all...... Just keep blogging and have fun, just try to keep up, lol......
You know when I moved into my neighborhood, my welcome was a bag of straw and a neighbor who turned me in for having my dog on a chain in my backyard so she could go to the bathroom...... Then, I had another neighbor ask me for money for a floral arrangement for another neighbors family after they lost her. So, I couldn't tell you were all the hospitality went too, never had it.....
.......le me ask you a question d'lady...........did you get lumps of coal for Christmas when you were little?.........I'm just saying.............
eldoggg
No Eldoggg that was handed to me on a daily basis considering who I lived with, LOL..... On occasion he still does just b/c he can and loves every minute of it...... That is hilarious though, let me guess you were one of the kids that got it too huh?????
.........I took my lumps of coal and turned them into energy to power my homemade electric chair.....<joke>.......although I DID win first prize in the sixth grade science contest for my chair......they wouldn't allow me to use the 220 outlet as I wanted.......I had to change the power source..........ROFL...................my partner in that endeavor has a thriving business on 23rd street now.........................( that was a tip for LMF )
eldoggg
ROFLMAO......... You have one of those too, was it just the era of time to make your own electric chair. My daddy did the same thing until he was caught trying to use it on his sister. I'm sure the butt-kicking was hilarious to watch.... They are just no fun are they? I would have paid for front row tickets and brought the beer and popcorn!
Why did you get a bag of straw and what was it for? Or did somebody just dump that on your lawn?
I know I would have told the neighbor who turned you in for the dog to blow unless you had it outside and it barked constantly. From your post though it doesn't sound like that's what you did.
He brought it over as a warm gift for my dog in the winter so she didn't get cold, but what he didn't know was that she is an inside dog pretty much throughout the winter and most of the summer. I leave her out when the temps range from 40-95 anything above 95 or below 40 she is inside. Me and him finally went to total blows back 2 years ago and he finally left me alone and even quit calling Aimee out from the pound to cite me. She even told him I was doing nothing wrong and everything was within city ordinance, so leave her alone or she would cite him for harrassment.......
Interesting question. When we first moved into Independence (as renters) the Welcome Wagon lady beat the moving van to the driveway. A year later we moved to another neighborhood, still renting, and again, there was the Welcome Wagon. I have no idea who sponsored them, but they were indeed welcome. The home owner's association? Realtors? Whomever, it was a nice touch and needs to be revived.
When was this that you got the Welcome Wagon? I've lived in at least half a dozen places in Independence, including 4 in the last 13 years, and I've never gotten anything at all. When we bought this house almost 3 years ago, my real estate agent did give me a nice pen set though.
Thats funny. :) She got a few thousand, you got a pen. Gotta admit, I never welcome neighbors eather. Some come and go and we never meet. In person I am bit shy around strangers. GUESS ITS NO EXCUSE! Oh well, out here they come and go so fast I'd go broke welcome waggoning.
Late 50's for the welcome wagon. We moved into our own place in '59. We were the first into the area, so no Welcome that time.
In my neighborhood, I tried to get a realtor "on board" with this idea... having that realtor somehow set up a system where they pass along info whenever somebody new at least buys a house in the neighborhood. But she never called me back or responded to a later email from me.
It'd be nice to do... but then there's the costs involved, especially long-term. I guess best thing would be to limit it to something like a "6 house radius" of your own home.
With the way Independence is going, at least in my neighborhood, I couldn't afford to give out a welcome basket to everybody. We have renters coming and going all the time.