How Y’all Doin’?

Now before anyone thinks that all I do is stumble through life making mistake after mistake and raising my daughter by example of what NOT to do, I would like to say to I do some things right.  There are traits that I possess that I would like for my daughter to acquire which I perceive as your basic southern good manners. 

Always say please and thank you and sir and ma’am.  Always hold the door for the person coming behind you no matter who it is.  Always look behind you when you open a door to see if someone is coming behind you.  Always open the door for anyone who is coming at the same time as you.  Always make eye contact, smile, and greet anyone with whom you may come in close contact.  Whether you are walking in opposite directions in the hall at work, down the sidewalk, standing in line.  Ok, there are exceptions when there are a lot of people around. 

 Basically, you want anyone who remembers you to remember you with a good feeling.  Oh, that’s the nice young lady who held the door for me the other day.  That’s the sweet little girl who let me in front of her in line at the grocery store last weekend.  That’s the well-mannered girl who looked me in the eyes and told me thank you when I held the door for her (her mother taught her well!).  That way, ideally, wherever you go, people are smiling at you, and that helps you feel better about yourself. 

But it’s important to remember that you can’t always please everyone.  And if someone just doesn’t like you for whatever reason, you can still be confident in yourself by saying, “That person just does not know what they are missing by being my friend, because I have so many friends, and they benefit from my acquaintance.”  They must just be jealous, and that’s when you can feel sorry for them and take care to be extra nice to them.  Either it wins them over to being friendly to you, or it chaps their ass that you can still be so friendly to them when they have obviously snubbed you and want you to notice it and be devastated. 

 

I know this blog is pretty boring right now, but I fully intend to get on it this weekend, with a little visual designing, a few links here and there, maybe some pretty ads.  I admit I’ve had several blogs that I have abandoned.  Laziness, fear of rejection, whatever.  This will be my project to overcome my procrastination, which is a whole entry unto itself.