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<blockquote data-quote="VickiL" data-source="post: 150242" data-attributes="member: 93"><p>Star,</p><p>Yep, one of my big pet peeves, too! Having been in the workforce for over 30 years, a lot of my early jobs were in customer service in one way or another. Day in, day out I would listen to people complain, call me names, complain some more and I HAD to be polite, charming, understanding and know that the customer is always right. It was tough on more days than I can remember, but it taught me that it is so important to take the time to be polite and respectful. And I can honestly say that even with all of the crud that Justin has put me through and dealing with Alex being a typical teen now, they both open doors for people, they are out of practice with 'Mam and Sir, but I am not with either of them on a daily basis any more. </p><p></p><p>However, this thread has taken me back to one cold, snowy winter day and Alex and I had to go to Walgreen's for something. We parked in front and noticed that the snow plow had pushed all of the snow up to the walkway in a big pile all around the handicapped parking spot. We get out of the car and I start to go into the store and turn around to see Alex holding an elderly lady's arm, helping her over the snow. I will never forget how proud of him I was that day. He also told me about one boy at his middle school that was handicapped in some way that made it hard for him to walk up stairs holding all of his books, so Alex just took them from him and helped him every day at the same time walk up the stairs to his next class. He truly is my angel! And I wish that politeness would come back in "fashion". I miss it so!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VickiL, post: 150242, member: 93"] Star, Yep, one of my big pet peeves, too! Having been in the workforce for over 30 years, a lot of my early jobs were in customer service in one way or another. Day in, day out I would listen to people complain, call me names, complain some more and I HAD to be polite, charming, understanding and know that the customer is always right. It was tough on more days than I can remember, but it taught me that it is so important to take the time to be polite and respectful. And I can honestly say that even with all of the crud that Justin has put me through and dealing with Alex being a typical teen now, they both open doors for people, they are out of practice with 'Mam and Sir, but I am not with either of them on a daily basis any more. However, this thread has taken me back to one cold, snowy winter day and Alex and I had to go to Walgreen's for something. We parked in front and noticed that the snow plow had pushed all of the snow up to the walkway in a big pile all around the handicapped parking spot. We get out of the car and I start to go into the store and turn around to see Alex holding an elderly lady's arm, helping her over the snow. I will never forget how proud of him I was that day. He also told me about one boy at his middle school that was handicapped in some way that made it hard for him to walk up stairs holding all of his books, so Alex just took them from him and helped him every day at the same time walk up the stairs to his next class. He truly is my angel! And I wish that politeness would come back in "fashion". I miss it so! [/QUOTE]
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