Posted on 11/21/2010 8:23:21 AM PST by Huck
My boys say Yes Ma’am, No sir among other things, and will get a knot jerked in their tails if I found out they were rude.
I CANNOT stand bad manners!
Handshakes as well. My boys will always introduce themselves and shake hands with the person, also eye contact....I cannot stand mumbling! And phones off when in a social situation around adults and family!!
Your “Uncle Charlie” vs. “Charlie” gave me a big chuckle. Let me say that I have been there and experienced that. Being a native born Southerner, I get a little homesick when I am in other parts of the Country where many of the delightful Southern mannerisms are missing. I am sure they are “good” people, but still I sense that “something” is missing.
I had the Carolina Ribs at The Pit for lunch today. ‘Nuf said.
Now that's the truth!
Yep, been to Hurseys in Burlington and have eaten at every BBQ in Davidson Co. except Cooks down by the lake.
Good manners still exist in the Deep South...whites and blacks both.
When we go home to Mississippi my wife and I both notice a genteel nature missing in Middle Tennessee
Here in metro Nashville no Yankee kids say yes ma’am and whatnot but that’s expected.
What’s troubling is kids raised by southerners under 40 rarely do it either.
They come to my house and address me as huh or yeah and I correct them and I will correct their folks if they confront me.
Same as I would expect someone to do mine too at their home.
Like anything else...times have change and for the worse in almost all arenas.
It sucks and it’s a pet peeve of mine.
The only part of the nation I still feel welcome in are Miss, Bama, cracker Florida, west TN and rural hollows, Arkansas, much of Texas, South Carolina , Rural Georgia and Louisiana..maybe pockets of VA and NC.
I hate it. You have to be over 45 to see how rurnt it got so fast.
I could probably get along in northern Idaho but they don’t do manners much either.
some military families do it too whether southern or not
The reason some ladies get offended by “ma’am” is because for one thing, it makes them feel old. When you’re in your teens or twenties, you’re called “miss,” then all of a sudden, you start hearing “ma’am” instead, and it makes you feel ancient. Also, some employees are taught to call all female customers “ma’am,” but they do it in a very snotty, impatient way. Like a female comedian I once heard says, “We all know what ‘ma’am’ means when a department store saleslady says it. It means the ‘B’ word!” :-)
But of course none of this is your fault. It must be annoying to behave as a gentleman, only to have women respond by getting offended. I hope it helps somewhat to know where those women might be coming from.
Great post. It is so good to read something that is not negative.
I agree. I have many friends whose kids still call people with a surname like Miss Sadie or Mr. Robert. People in the South are naturally friendly and gracious. If we weren’t we would be beating the carpola out of all the obnoxious yankees and Ghetto bums who live here.
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