Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 14:13:39 GMT
I'm beginning to think that I'm old fashioned...
Every so often on here we get a request. Someone asking for recommendations, that sort of thing. They might be asking for advice about restaurants near to a particular theatre, bed-time reading suggestions, travel tips, or just some reassurance that they've bought the right seat in the auditorium.
And because many of us are helpful souls we respond: we Google Map the little tapas bar we visited as we can't remember its name but it was very good; we go to the bookshelf in the spare bedroom so we can check the author of the superb History of the Musical we read some years ago; we trawl Tripadvisor for the name of the canal we wandered along in Paris, off the beaten track. And good old Monkey climbs to the highest branch to scratch his head once more and informs us that there is a pillar but it's only a little one.
So if someone bothers to respond to your request, isn't it only polite to say, "Thank you"? Just to acknowledge it?
In the words of Mr Ebb: "Whatever happened to 'Please may I?' and 'Yes thank you' and 'How charming'...?
Like Velma and Mama Morton, perhaps I'm just old fashioned.
Every so often on here we get a request. Someone asking for recommendations, that sort of thing. They might be asking for advice about restaurants near to a particular theatre, bed-time reading suggestions, travel tips, or just some reassurance that they've bought the right seat in the auditorium.
And because many of us are helpful souls we respond: we Google Map the little tapas bar we visited as we can't remember its name but it was very good; we go to the bookshelf in the spare bedroom so we can check the author of the superb History of the Musical we read some years ago; we trawl Tripadvisor for the name of the canal we wandered along in Paris, off the beaten track. And good old Monkey climbs to the highest branch to scratch his head once more and informs us that there is a pillar but it's only a little one.
So if someone bothers to respond to your request, isn't it only polite to say, "Thank you"? Just to acknowledge it?
In the words of Mr Ebb: "Whatever happened to 'Please may I?' and 'Yes thank you' and 'How charming'...?
Like Velma and Mama Morton, perhaps I'm just old fashioned.
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