Hi, my name is Randy Hill and I am just one of thousands of people around the world, tired and frustrated with the lack of consideration that is displayed by a growing "demographic" that I call, "the great unwashed and ill-mannered." People who can't seem to get outside their little world long enough to see the stress that they create on the rest of the population.
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008The Decline of Civility Have we lost all respect for our fellow citizens, or should we blame it on our sped up and chaotic lives? In the new CTV Original Documentary To Hell with Manners! The Decline of Civility, award-winning Montreal filmmaker John Curtin travels across North America and the U.K., proving just how disrespectful […]
Operation Nice
Friday, August 1st, 2008Here’s a new blog that I think you will find very – nice! A friend of mine started the blog and I think it’s one blog that “needed doin.” Thanks, Mel! Operation Nice
Beijingers advised to clean up their manners.
Sunday, July 20th, 2008In preparation for the Beijing Olympics, Beijingers have been given the word: clean up your manners. Excerpts from the official pamphlet lay it on the line: “In conversation, wear a smile, don’t stare too long or do anything to make people feel ill at ease,” it says. “Before you help [a disabled person], first of […]
Low blow.
Monday, July 14th, 2008Is there nothing lower than attacking a handicapped person over a parking space? I think not: Vancouver police have arrested two men they suspect of attacking a woman who used a prosthetic leg in a dispute over a disabled parking spot. The suspects, 41 and 34, allegedly slammed the woman’s car door on her leg […]
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Monday, July 7th, 2008I went to a restaurant in Salem the other night. A group of people (four or five) were right behind me. I opened the door and held it open so they could enter first (being the southern gentleman that I am). Guess what? Not a single thank you was uttered from any of their carpetbagging […]
Texas Etiquette
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Here’s some Texas etiquette for all you native Texans out there (me included) or Texan wannabee’s. Men will always tip his hat or touch two fingers to the brim when he meets a lady on the street. No Texan will ever make fun of another Texan’s hat no matter how dirty or bent up it […]
Obivious etiquette tip #2,348. Don’t talk on your cell phone during a meal out.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008The couple were sitting in the restaurant a few tables over from us. The husband/boyfriend/significant other was talking on this cell phone, which, by the way, is rude in itself. The wife/girlfriend/significant other was blankly staring out the window at nothing in particular. This went on for the entire meal. The couple’s future certainly doesn’t […]
Involved in an accident? Tips on what to do.
Friday, June 6th, 2008Photo by Kenn Kiser Living up here in the Pacific Northwest, I’m always amazed at how bad the drivers (and pedestrians) are. You risk having an accident every time you drive your car, walk or ride a bicycle on the roads around here. Here are some quick tips that you might want to print out […]
George Washington’s Top Ten Rules of Civility
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Sometime before he was 16 years of age, George Washington wrote “Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation: a Book of Etiquette. He wrote 110 of them…here’s the top 10: 1st Every Action done in Company, ought to be with Some Sign of Respect, to those that are Present. 2d When in […]
Grocery Shop Carts To Entertain Kids? Hate ‘Em
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Excuse me while I have a little morning rant here. I hate, yes, absolutely hate grocery shopping carts shaped like animals, cars, trucks – whatever. They are way too long and intrusive and just aggravate the heck out of me. Seems like such a little thing, I know, but somehow my mom managed to go […]
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