Re: Y&R how come?

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:56:30 -0500, Queenie <coasterqueen@xxxxxxxxxx>
rummaged among random neurons and opined:

>But the respect isn't there either--because it wasn't taught. The
>child thinks he's equal to an adult because he doesn't know any
>better. When the title is used--it only takes a second--it shows
>respect. If titles weren't necessary, we could addressing our
>physicians and Dr So and So.

I don't know when it became across-the-board rampant to do away with
honorifics in the first place. It annoys the sh*t out of me to have
some 20-something, in a dentist's office, for instance, who doesn't
know me from Adam's off ox to call me by my first name. When my
grandmother was briefly in a nursing home, it just p*ssed me off to
hear the nurse's aides call her "Neva." I finally asked, as a matter
of respect to an elderly woman who had damned well earned it, that she
be called Mrs. Hopkins. How hard is that?

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"Just what kind of jackassery do I have to put up with today?" Danae
in "Non Sequitur"

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