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.

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.

I am 21 and want to smack the crap out of most kids because of the disrespect that goes on. Even the most basic things like taking your hat off in church. I mean there are times when cursing while not nessesary can be helpful, but never in a place of busisness.

Originally Posted by foundlingofdollar

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.

Thanks, that Dave Berry comment made me laugh out loud.

I enjoy his humor. Fact of the matter is that if some rap star actually did tie his pants on in the manner described, it would in point of fact become fashionable to do so.

Damn kids!

I look back upon my halcyon days of my youth, and then realize that was 20 years ago! 20 years!

And yet I think I'm still that same guy...

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?