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Re: Friendly and Polite People

No matter where you live there is alway a butt munch to contend with. 

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Re: Friendly and Polite People

I also came across a friendly helpful person at my local grocery store.the world needs more of that

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Re: Friendly and Polite People

I think the pandemic had something to do with it, too.  For me, if I had stores to go to, I would hurry and get out as fast as possible and didn't have time to browse, altho I was never rude.  I try to picture being in their shoes.

 

Now I enjoy going to stores.  Not so scared.  No masks so you can smile at people and have simple conversations.  Time to browse.  I enjoy being nice to people and being helpful.  Maybe it's selfish, but it makes me feel good to think maybe I helped someone feel better.

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Re: Friendly and Polite People


@Sooner wrote:

Like I tell people, if you don't want to be called "Hon" or "Sugar" do not eat in small towns in Oklahoma.  

 

By and large we are still warm and friendly folks.  I do worry however, about some (not all) of the younger entitled crowd I sometimes encounter.  


 

@Sooner "Hon" or "Sugar" is not always said in a well intended way.  Many times it is said to keep people in "their" place.

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Re: Friendly and Polite People


@NYCLatinaMe wrote:

@Sooner wrote:

Like I tell people, if you don't want to be called "Hon" or "Sugar" do not eat in small towns in Oklahoma.  

 

By and large we are still warm and friendly folks.  I do worry however, about some (not all) of the younger entitled crowd I sometimes encounter.  


 

@Sooner "Hon" or "Sugar" is not always said in a well intended way.  Many times it is said to keep people in "their" place.


@NYCLatinaMe Maybe in NYC.  NOT in Oklahoma!  Woman Very Happy

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Re: Friendly and Polite People

I live in a city with a population over 1.5 million....the drivers are TERRIBLE, however, outside of "the road", people are very friendly, caring, and helpful........We bill our city as "A big city with a small town heart".............

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Re: Friendly and Polite People


@Trinity11 wrote:

I have lived in a few different states in my lifetime and find people are basically the same, no matter the location.

 

Living in the same location as the OP, I find the way people treat me is often based on my own mood. Rudeness I rarely if ever encounter and that stands for any state I have lived in. I have always believed, for the most part, if we are friendly and warm, we get back what we give... Sounds kind of Pollyanna but definitely has been my experience.


 

@Trinity11 Very well said!!!

 

I have been reading these posts, and it appears the "rudeness" are complaints about driving.  I don't drive, so maybe that is a blessing.

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@NYCLatinaMe wrote:

@Trinity11 wrote:

I have lived in a few different states in my lifetime and find people are basically the same, no matter the location.

 

Living in the same location as the OP, I find the way people treat me is often based on my own mood. Rudeness I rarely if ever encounter and that stands for any state I have lived in. I have always believed, for the most part, if we are friendly and warm, we get back what we give... Sounds kind of Pollyanna but definitely has been my experience.


 

@Trinity11 Very well said!!!

 

I have been reading these posts, and it appears the "rudeness" are complaints about driving.  I don't drive, so maybe that is a blessing.


@NYCLatinaMe , I drive in Manhattan often. Everything is so slow that I find the driving on the LIE a lot more tedious.  

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Re: Friendly and Polite People


@Sooner wrote:

@NYCLatinaMe wrote:

@Sooner wrote:

Like I tell people, if you don't want to be called "Hon" or "Sugar" do not eat in small towns in Oklahoma.  

 

By and large we are still warm and friendly folks.  I do worry however, about some (not all) of the younger entitled crowd I sometimes encounter.  


 

@Sooner "Hon" or "Sugar" is not always said in a well intended way.  Many times it is said to keep people in "their" place.


@NYCLatinaMe Maybe in NYC.  NOT in Oklahoma!  Woman Very Happy


 

I don't hear these expressions in NYC @Sooner, so no.  I did hear they were used in Albany, and not in a good way.

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Re: Friendly and Polite People


@NYCLatinaMe wrote:

@Sooner wrote:

@NYCLatinaMe wrote:

@Sooner wrote:

Like I tell people, if you don't want to be called "Hon" or "Sugar" do not eat in small towns in Oklahoma.  

 

By and large we are still warm and friendly folks.  I do worry however, about some (not all) of the younger entitled crowd I sometimes encounter.  


 

@Sooner "Hon" or "Sugar" is not always said in a well intended way.  Many times it is said to keep people in "their" place.


@NYCLatinaMe Maybe in NYC.  NOT in Oklahoma!  Woman Very Happy


 

I don't hear these expressions in NYC @Sooner, so no.  I did hear they were used in Albany, and not in a good way.


 

@NYCLatinaMe Well, Little Axe, Pink, Antlers, Gotebo, Chickasha,  and Noble Oklahoma, among others are very different from Albany NY.