Witchay - "About the control freak friend who liked to run people down, it sounds like she had some kind of problem. That's not good. I don't like to be that way. I guess that my family will let people do all kinds of weird things when theyre here and then talk about them like cats later on. Meow meow. Scratch scratch."
My family went a family reunion once, and on the way back my mother said, "Did you see what Gloria was wearing today? Tsk, tsk, tsk." Talking behind someone's back is not nice at all and illestrates very bad manners.
I agree with you. There's nothing at all wrong with the smiley face or the phrase, "Have a nice day." I feel good when someone wishes me a good day, and I have no problem saying it back. If it's a woman, I usually say, "I hope you have a wonderful day today." or "Are you having a good day?" If it's my church friends, and I know I'm not going to see them until next Sunday, I usually say, "Have a blessed week." It's just plain common courtesy to acknowledge people, regardless if some people consider a phrase to be "trite".
I like British comedies. Mr. Bean, 'Allo 'Allo, One Foot In The Grave, The Goods, Fawlty Towers, As Time Goes By. All so funny! And I can see the Carry On series is outrageous!
I'm retired, so I'm no long working. But when I was working, I worked to live. I certainly wasn't living to work! No way. Or, as Vyoleta put it, I was working for money to support my family.
It showed two guys in Rolls Royces who were passing the Grey Poupon from one car to another, something that would never happen in real life, but it was still an interesting ad.
And a boot is a trunk, and...I say! Why do you guys still drive on the left side of the road? If we yanks tried that, we would be crashing all the time.
Whlle our childhood does have a tremendous influence on us, I don't agree that we can't overcome our childhood in adult life. Yes, some people do turn neurotic in adult life, as a result of their childhood, but most of us turn out pretty good, actually. Because of my childhood, I was forced to become a survivor, and I can survive anything.
On the other hand, there are guys like me whose whole total personality is a "too nice" personality. That's really who I am as a person. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. So I guess I'll just keep being the nice person I am, and hopefully the woman I met on the other site works out for me, which is a very high probability.
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RE: HAVE A NICE DAY......
Wekk, for a church-going person to not say Merry Christmas would be anathema.