New Blog!
In the future, I plan to tackle some of the more loftier concepts of our day......but not today! Today I just need to get something off my chest.
Oh I know that everyone has jumped on the " I have a blog" bandwagon. Some of them even have some things to say that are worth reading........ So I have kicked it around for a year or so and thought that there were enough rambling musings out there for everyone to be entertained with, so I need not write what someone else would surely say.....
However, as anyone that knows me very well will confirm, I see the world through different eyes than most humans.....I catch things that others do not or will not...
Occasionally I tell a story from another point of view that entertains. Sometimes its not all that entertaining but provokes a thought or two.......
For example:
I recently have become very aware that proper grammar, specifically complete sentences have all but disappeared from our daily lives. Sure, we all have a colloquial way of speaking with each other that has never resembled written prose......But have you listened to what our younger citizens are saying when you are greeted at the local store or restaurant?
Unless they are reading a script, they greet you with something that at best is a conglomeration of 3 to 5 words that all run together:
Evening....
fourferdinner?
smoking or no?
thisway........
If you think I am exaggerating.......Just listen to the greeting you get the next time you go through a drive through to get a coffee. You will get a very nice "canned" greeting when you are ordering (scripted) but if you get more than a number at the window, I would be very surprised. Without exception, I am generally greeted with a person smiling and just giving me a number : $2.86.....IF she is particularly polite and well trained, I might get "hello, 2.86"
I could go on and on with examples ad infinitum, but you get the idea.
So here is my plan......
One server, hostess, barista, or counter clerk at a time I will begin the slow process of educating and/or retraining our service industry to treat us like people instead of another transaction. I may not be able to change the whole world, but I can sure have an affect on the world around me.
