Originally Posted by sarah_webinc

Having spent most of last evening in the city with people bumping into each other and not saying excuse me it made me wonder how many of us consider ourselves to be polite. I am not talking GFY standards of polite but rather what the real world would continue to be polite. Do you still say please, thank you and excuse me in public? My parents were very strict on such things when I was growing up so it is stil a part of me.