Thread: I'm doing it again...

...I'm showing signs of getting old!!

So, I am at a pizza joint working on their conveyor pizza oven while talking to the owner, a 22 year old kid who talks like a gangster from New Jersey! Actually a very nice kid who puts up a facade to hide the fact that he is scared as hell and hasn't the vaguest idea of what he is doing! His uncle set him up, gave him a few pointers, and then said sink or swim! I think he'll swim!
Anyways, his mother is in the kitchen while we are talking, looking very shy, when I here the Kid say F#@% this, and F@#$ that! Without even thinking about it, or considering the damage that I might be causing to our business relationship I looked the kid in the eye and said " You watch your mouth around your mother!" The kid looks embarrassed and tells me that his mother doesn't understand English, but the look on his mothers face was just beaming at me! She knew her boy had been corrected! Later on I told the boy that it didn't make a wit of difference whether his mother understood or not, she deserved the respect of her station! He again looked embarrassed, but didn't excuse himself this time!
I don't know yet whether I made a friend or lost a customer, but I knew at that moment that I am heading towards old codger status! I like it!!


Anybody else on their way to old fart??

Originally Posted by JMS

Anybody else on their way to old fart!!

F@#$ this!

Originally Posted by gugi

F@#$ this!

Originally Posted by JMS

Gugi, you need to show the proper respect to our venerable friend - you must at least use a chronologically pertinent curse. I believe the proper curse word they were using in the 1930's was "dagnabbit"

I think I may be a touch younger than you Mark, but I'm with you all the way. I've been toying with starting a thread about all these young people with their bums hanging out their pants and lax table manners...

James.

Gugi!!! Go to your virtual Room right this minute young man!!!!!

That show Deadwood horrified me, does that count? Both because of the level of cursing and how historically inaccurate those curses were.

I've also recently began to comment on how 16 - 18 year olds think they know everything. :P

Old before my time, that's my problem.

JMS? old? that's preposterous! balderdash and poppy****, I say!


ETA: wow, the censor sure doesn't like depression-era swearing, does it?

Originally Posted by JMS

...I'm showing signs of getting old!!

Mark, manners have no age. Perhaps you are wise enough to know when to correct a wayward youth. Yeah, that's it. You should have broken out a straight razor and shaved right in front of him.

You are to be applauded, courtesy is the grease of life, it makes the cogs turn alittle easier.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Gugi, you need to show the proper respect to our venerable friend - you must at least use a chronologically pertinent curse. I believe the proper curse word they were using in the 1930's was "dagnabbit"

I think I may be a touch younger than you Mark, but I'm with you all the way. I've been toying with starting a thread about all these young people with their bums hanging out their pants and lax table manners...

James.

Well fiddlesticks, I guess I am hornswaggled.

I know how you feel though. I'm 25, and I work in a grocery store with a mostly young staff. Despite my young age , I believe strongly in professionalism and courtesy. By what I see at work, however, language standards have definitely dropped.

With regards to the young people and the pants, I seem to remember Dave Berry once saying that if current trends continue, it will become the fashion to tie one's pants to the end of a rope and drag them around six feet behind you.