Tonight after we got home from work, Brian had the Golden Girls on the TV and I overheard Blanche telling a story about one of her many "first" dates being on the way home from the Annual Fine Manners Ball......
Doesn't that have a nice ring to it? Fine Manners Ball. I wish we still lived in a time when such a thing actually existed, rather than just being a punch line in a sitcom. No one pays much attention to manners anymore. We are all too wrapped up in our own little traumas to pay much attention to others or to take the time to treat each other well. Or to care about things like what is appropriate attire or which fork to use, or even how to speak politely and respectfully to each other. I'm not saying we need to go back to Victorian ideals, but we are loosing more and more of our civility every day. It is becoming a very selfish society.
And I know..... some other cranky old man probably said very similar things about me and my generation thirty years ago. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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