Manners are always appropriate if they're in response to a polite person showing friendliness.
If they're an asshole then I'll be an asshole too.
Proper manners are barely taught anymore. Unless you are outside of a major city. Then people tend to be mostly pleasant. If you think it's fake, you are probably from a major metro.
I agree. We were raised on a farm and taught manners or my Mom would give us a slap but if my Dad was there we got a spanking. It kept me behaved and mind you this was in the mid 90s to about 2000 when I turned 8.
Well put. Growing up in smaller areas where you have to work hard to get by (even as a kid) you tend to have a different outlook on hard work. You also tend to appreciate those around you that help you when you are in need.
When you live in the middle of nowhere and someone is broken down on the side of the road.. Unless they look sketch as fuck you pull over and help. You do that in a major metro. You get shot, robbed and your car stolen (if you are weak enough to be driving a automatic - criminals dont drive manuals).
Great detail about fakeness. True
It hurts asshole more when their assholiness doesn’t even register. I can rarely pull this off but when I do, I’m a smug asshole for the rest of the day. It’s great.
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