Time For A Change

August 30, 2011

I went to my local Sonic Drive In to get what passes for “lunch” around here. The carhop rolled on her skates to my window. If you believe the Sonic website, she was “like an eight-wheeled human food chariot” delivering my food “with a side of smiles.” She must have left the smiles on the [...]

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365 Thank You Notes? That’s Nothing!

December 29, 2010

Have you ever seen a book title and thought to yourself, “Aww, Thunder! I should have written that!”? It happened to me again when I saw the book 365 Thank Yous: The Year A Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life. The author, John Kralik, spent a year writing one thank you note a [...]

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Shocked By Artwerx

October 27, 2010

Y’all, I was in shock when we exited Artwerx Alley, a gallery in San Antonio, leaving behind the items we had planned to purchase. I don’t believe I’ve ever had an experience where a shop owner was quite so rude. We had been planning our visit all week to visit the shop and see the [...]

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An Issue Of Respect At Wolfgang Puck’s Five Sixty Restaurant

October 16, 2010

I’m not a big fan of “dress codes.” However, there are restaurants that have them, and if you want to eat there you abide by them. That seems pretty simple and straightforward to me. Wolfgang Puck’s Five Sixty Restaurant is taking some heat from the media for enforcing that with a group of World War [...]

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Chew On This One

August 21, 2010

Raise your hand if your Momma insisted on you displaying table manners when you grew up. I remember my mother telling me, “Close your mouth when you chew.” She told me that a jillion times. She also sometimes told me, “Don’t talk with your mouth open,” (ahem) but I didn’t learn to be a ventriloquist. [...]

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Bully For You

November 19, 2008

Would you be embarrassed to discover that your child was known as the class bully? I don’t know about y’all, but I would be mortified! I would hope that I could raise my children to be sensitive to the feelings of others. Recently, a librarian friend asked me if I knew any stories about “bullies” [...]

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Squat Diddly

November 7, 2008

Y’all, I know that I said I wasn’t going to be snarky on Only The Good Friday, but sometimes I just can’t stand oozing goodness out of every pore for a whole day. This is one of those times! Whatever happened to the days when the wait staff at a restaurant stood respectfully at the [...]

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Gobbledigook

September 12, 2008

“DONDE YADAYADAYADA BLAHBLAH YADA BLAH,” the man shouted at me. Well, that wasn’t exactly what he said, but it’s what it sounded like to me. It was just a bunch of “gobbledigook.” He was shouting in Spanish, and the only word I caught was “donde.” I knew he was asking “where” something was. I only [...]

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Mind Your Manners, And The Rest Is Soon To Follow

June 17, 2008

“I think once you stop hearin’ “sir” and “maam” the rest is soon to follow.”~Sheriff Bell (Tommie Lee Jones) in No Country For Old Men Though the Cohen Brothers packed their movie with violence, the most memorable part of No Country For Old Men, for me, was the line above. It’s been bouncing around in [...]

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Here’s A Little Tip For You

March 16, 2008

“Hi! My name is Tiffany*, and I’ll be your server tonight,” the young woman gushes while flashing a megawatt smile. Her face indicates she is just thrilled to see us. “Can I start you off with something to drink? A glass of wine, maybe?” “No thank you,” I answer sweetly. “We will have two diet [...]

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You Have Nothing To Fear, It’s Only Me

May 6, 2007

Have y’all ever noticed how oddly people act when they step into an elevator with strangers? People seem to shut up completely and stare at the floor, or the ceiling, or the door. They don’t look each other in the eye. People don’t say hello; they don’t say a word to each other. Folks just [...]

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