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  1. klind65

    Cads on the subway

    Dear Elaina, Excellent question. I admire your teaching your son by example - a powerful tool. I customarily give my seat up to the elderly or disabled or expectant mothers. My offers have never been refused. Sometimes also, when I do this, someone else offers me his seat in turn which is...
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    Cads on the subway

    Thank you for your post. I was surprised by what you said and VERY PLEASED! My opinions are often based on what I personally observe and I have never seen those of a "hip hop" orientation display traditional courtesy. But your post proves that they do! It is so easy to assume that because a chap...
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    Cads on the subway

    Thanks for your comments. I agree with the definition of etiquette that you cited. Yes, simple consideration. Wonder why that is so hard for many people to practice? But I'm glad you do. Never change!::)
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    Cads on the subway

    Thanks for your post. Yes I have seen this sort of thing and it is really unconscionable! I simply can't abide it. I read many of the other posts wherein the men credit their good form to having been "raised that way". So, perhaps that is the answer: People having kids and raising them are not...
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    Cads on the subway

    Thanks for your post. I realize my question concerned the subways but as a general issue of courtesy do you find it a function of location or region? I see you are from the south so, if you have travelled to NY or some other part of the country, do you find a greater preponderance of gracious...
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    Cads on the subway

    Thanks for your post. I realize now that perhaps my view of who rides the subways is not quite accurate. I am not a native and ergo don't benefit from the perspective time would bestow. I formulated my opinion based on the people I've seen personally - maybe I'm just riding the wrong train!;)
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    Cads on the subway

    I appreciate your comments. The experience you had on the LIRR indicates in no uncertain terms that there is a paucity of good form (consideration) today and that people miss it and want it back. Thanks for doing the right thing. Teaching by example - the more we do it, the more things will...
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    Cads on the subway

    Well, I think there is a general consensus among people that things were better (including good form) in the past ,after all, why are we fans of the Golden Age in the first place? But to answer your question: I go by the stories of my grandparents who lived in New York during the era (and rode...
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    Public Displays of Affection

    In the golden era social opprobrium was leveled at those who ventured to be too demonstrative with their mutual affection in public. Even when I was growing up, a few decades later, this was still a considered a gaucherie. Yet now, it appears to be making an unfortunate return. I still find it...
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    Cads on the subway

    Fellow golden era fans, please share your opinions about the gentleman's custom of offering his seat to a lady. Here in New York on the subway, one hardly ever sees this. Now I know the subway is not the first place one looks for the best-bred people. However, any class of people can practice...
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    Square fingernails

    Your post was hilarious! Still, sorry for the misunderstanding. By the way, I love your signature quote. SO TRUE! kind wishes, klind65
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    Square fingernails

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Please submit your opinions about this modern phenomenon of square nails. I don't understand them at all. To my mind, the point of a nail (for a lady) is to "finish" the finger in a tapering, elongating and slimming shape ( leading naturally to a point). In classic...
  15. klind65

    Getting the zipper all the way up

    This site looks like it may do the trick. Wonderful idea, thanks awfully! :eusa_clap
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    Getting the zipper all the way up

    Thanks for your reply. I actually have tried this, but found that either the thread broke or slipped off the zipper nib. Unfortunately, not all zippers have the little aperture through which to place a string or thread. But thanks for the thought - we're on the same track!:)
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    Getting the zipper all the way up

    Dear Ladies, I have posted this in another forum, but wanted to post here as well. As a new member, I do hope this doesn't abrogate any rules. Well, I wonder if anyone else has problems pulling the zippers on the backs of dresses up all the way? I have stiff shoulders or short arms? I guess...
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    Getting the zipper all the way up

    Having trouble with back dress zippers. I have stiff shoulders I guess and simply cannot reach far enough to get the zippers on the backs of dresses up all the way. I have had to stop in at my tailor's early in the morning and again on the way home to be zipped up and down, respectively! They...
  20. klind65

    Need suggestions for party music please :)

    Suggestions Hello. Take a look at "Cocktails with Cole Porter", Paul Desmond's "Take Ten", " Stan Getz plays", " Capitol sings Jimmy McHugh", Steve Lawrence, "Ella Fitzgerald sings...": Rogers and Hart or Jerome Kern, or Gershwin etc... (All available on Amazon). Good luck, kind wishes...
  21. klind65

    Dinner Party Etiquette

    What a gaucherie! Hello. Yes, I agree, that early arrival was indeed rude. I don't know why "modern" people often don't pracitce consideration. Perhaps they no longer teach the "golden rule" in grammar school. If one is fortunate enough to have a domestic to see to the guest ( get...
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    Show us your suits

    Marvelous Pure sartorial perfection!:eusa_clap
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    Is there something you really want to wear but are chicken?

    [/IMG] I finally was successful in adding a photo. This is a typical outfit which I wear on a daily basis to work, shopping, social engagements. Hope you like it. Kind wishes, klind65

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