Etiquette for Young Men

[Geoff Withnell]

Reminds me of my comment about my relationship with the 4-Star general who runs the agency at which I work. I work directly with him often enough that he remembers me, and I joke that we are on a first name basis. He calls me "Geoff"......... and I call him "General".

When I was growing up, the importance of 'please and thank you' was emphasised to me again and again. The equation was simple - people expected to hear please and thank you, if they did not, they would think you were rude and judge you accordingly.

The other thing is correctly addressing people (mainly men). There are roughly four groups -
Those who you call Sir,
Those who you call Mr Johnson,
Those who you can call George,
And finally those who you address as Oi, you old fart!

Once you have worked out the correct term of address and added the appropriate please or thank you - You are easily half way there to getting what you want.

For most teenage lads the problem is getting the right parents to start with, because all the really important stuff in life is learned before we go to school.

[Father Bill]

As a classroom teacher, I used to teach the children in my classes that there were three barriers in society which one did not easily cross: age, gender, and rank. While I might behave casually with other men on staff, I would not do so with children or seniors, the women teachers, the principal, or parents. Those served well for children to learn when to have on their very best behaviours.

[TheOfficialBren]

Reminds me of my comment about my relationship with the 4-Star general who runs the agency at which I work. I work directly with him often enough that he remembers me, and I joke that we are on a first name basis. He calls me "Geoff"......... and I call him "General".

Yup! I have heard it said that generals can't wear those "Hi! My Name Is --" nametags because they are all named "General."

[Lee Bradbury]

Not sure these have been mentioned (I did scroll through but might have missed them) which might be of use:

http://etiquette-tips.com/ and http://www.debretts.com/etiquette/br...behaviour.aspx

Just an aside; I worked as a Security Officer for a number of years in a large UK shopping centre. Whenever I went into a shop I would always remove my cap and this didn't go unnoticed as the lady who ran the Home Brew shop was so impressed that every Xmas she'd give me a few bottles of homemade beer, wine and try to fill me up with spiced wine on Xmas Eve which wasn't too good when trying to patrol afterwards.