Or trying not to be rude.
I am reading the book Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss which is about the rudeness rampant in modern life.
She serves up her arguements for a better planet via less rudeness in a book divided into 6 chapters all to do with her Reasons to stay home and bolt the door,chapters 1 through 6.
Although she goes on and on sometimes and mostly with rambling theories of the effects of cellular phones on us all as a society,
she makes a lot of sense.
This book gave me a heads-up about saying excuse me if someone is in your way or has a purse on a seat you want to sit in- instead of (my hopefully former passive aggressive habitual method) staring at them until they get the message.
I’m afraid that it’s true that hooligans in NYC don’t much respect manners.I was a very polite type of person when I moved here from “out West” as a teenager.And now instead of always being the one who steps aside for an oncoming fellow pedestrian,I find myself playing that manhattan-centric game of sidewalk chicken.In which we come as close as we possibly can to knocking each other over if one of us chickens won’t get out of the other’s way.This game can also be played with umberellas, your umbrella spoke putting out an eye wins you much street credit.
I had the “excuse me” beat out of me by almost 20 years spent in NYC.
Saying excuse me was ridiculed by the exact folks Ms.Lynne Truss is now dressing down.
Though they aren’t the sort who’d read her book anyway.
I found her book very entertaining if longwinded.I am longwinded,too, so glass houses.
Ms. Lynee Truss’s most famous book is Eats,Shoots&Leaves.