Monday, November 10, 2008

Etiquette As Snark

Story.

People who lack manners are a particular peeve of mine. Since I work in the service industry (hotel desk employee) I can't really get away with correcting lack of manners via sarcasm, but I do so when I'm not working: If I hold the door for someone, for example, and they can't be bothered to say thank you I'll wait a second or two and say you're welcome anyway, just to shame them. If they're shameless and say I didn't say thank you! I then reply with And you admit it proudly? How terrible for you.

You can easily think of other examples yourself.

1 comment:

MauserMedic said...

Something that should be done more often, I think.