First you say please
August 3, 2017
First you say please. And then you say thank you.
Pretty basic concept, right? It’s the title of a book I’ve been reading my son since he was about 3. Simple.
Then why is it seemingly so hard? It often feels like a disappearing nicety. I feel like an old geezer. Ah, kids today, they don’t even say please and thank you anymore! Ai, what is happening to our society?
But what really is happening? In our self- centered world, are we forgetting the value of a little please and thank you? Am I out of touch? Do niceties matter? To me, they do.
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Abbe's Road 
I asked my Chinese teacher how to say please in Chinese and her response was, “you don’t need to learn that”. Made me wonder if that was the case 50 years ago.
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That’s surprising. Maybe it’s cultural. When I first went to Czech, it was one of the words I made sure to know. I use it as much here as at home, for the most part.
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@kellygerstbacher what about thank you?
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we’ve got lots of thank yous here!
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