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PLEASE AND THANK YOU

I wrote a post about this previously but it seems to me that it needs to be expanded upon or at least re-stated! Where on earth did 'please' and 'thank you' go?!?! Does anybody use these terms anymore? I know that amazing terminology such as swag has been added to our vocabulary but does that not leave room for manners! Do I lose any amount of possible "swag" I obtained by being polite to someone (cause Heaven forbid!)

I was always taught to be polite. If in 20 years my mother heard I had the audacity to be rude to someone for no reason that would be my @$$! And I mean that! I don't understand how everyone has developed such a sense of entitlement. No one is beneath you. You have no idea hearing please or thank you can brighten a person's day. It's really simple!

So I'm petitioning that we add 'please' and 'thank you' back into the dictionary! And if that means that we have to lose terms like 'swag' then so be it!
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