Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 17, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Christopher Birchenhall wrote: > Ted, Tina > > 2009/1/17 Tina Manley <images@comporium.net>: >> At 03:05 PM 1/17/2009, you wrote: >> Most people are in too much of a hurry these days to pay any >> attention to >> civility - much less look up from their Blackberries or Ipods to >> even see >> that you are there. The newcomers also make fun of waitresses here >> who call >> everybody "Honey" or "Darling" but I like it. Makes me feel at >> home! Just >> like Mayberry. > > For me the most annoying thing about the modern generation is their > insistence that I listen to a one-sided conservation while they shout > down their mobile phones - even worse if they are speaking Arabic and > talking to some one half way round the world as I don't even get one > side of the conversation! :-) One great tradition in the UK - when the > weather is warm - is sitting outside drinking a glass of real ale - in > the US you call this warm beer? - but now you have to sit next to all > those business men running their business over their mobile phones > while they pollute the atmosphere with their cigarette smoke - sorry > guys if that includes you. To top it all recently I was trying to have > a quiet lunch but two girls on the next table insisted on talking > openly about their sex lives in torrid detail it's very impolite to whisper... ;-) Steve > - these were middle > class university students too! The world has gone to pot LOL - well > not here on the LUG :-) > > Chris B > >> >> Come on down! >> >> Tina >> >> Tina Manley >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information