[C.B.]

I totally agree with you that it is very rude to not identify yourself when you call someone on the phone. Look in any etiquette book and it will tell you that when you call someone, you say who you are first (‘Hello. This is so-and-so,’) and then you ask to speak to the person you’re calling (‘May I speak to so-and-so, please?’) Also, this might just be a ‘southern thang,’ but my mamma taught me that if you are a woman calling a married man and his wife answers the phone, you had better identify yourself quick! You are being very rude to the gentleman’s wife when you don’t! My husband is a salesman, and he has female manufacturer representatives call him at our home, in the evenings, all the time. Very seldom do these rude young women identify themselves to me. I’m not saying I don’t trust my husband or anything. I was just always taught that this is VERY rude! Being a woman, I’m not sure if the same rule applies to men calling married women, but it seems it should. Oh well, I guess no one sends their kids to charm schools anymore. I’m afraid good manners in any situation are becoming a thing of the past.

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Name : C.B., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Southern Baptist, Age : 29, City : Nashville, State : TN, Country : United States, Occupation : homemaker, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[C.B.]

Okay, I admit it: I’M GUILTY! If your car has ever been dented by a stray shopping cart, then I guess no excuse is good enough, but this is why I do it. I have two small children, ages 2 and 3. They both ride in car seats. The picture of me coming out of the grocery store looks like this: An exhausted woman who just spent two hours in the grocery store with two toddlers, carrying one child on my hip, and trying to hold the other child’s hand and push the cart full of groceries at the same time. (I usually end up banging into my OWN car just trying to stop the cart!) The first thing I have to do when I get to the car is get both children belted into their car seats because I couldn’t very well let them loose in the parking lot — my biggest fear is that one will get hit by a car out there. So I get them locked in the car, then I unload the groceries into the trunk. Now, in these huge parking lots at places like Wal-mart, they just don’t have enough cart corrals out there! The corrals are almost always overflowing with carts. (Here’s my pet peave: Why can’t people push their carts all the way into the cart in front of it, thereby nesting the carts and saving a lot of space for more carts?!) So here I am, out in the middle of this five acre parking lot with my kids sitting in the car, and I have no where to take this cart but the five miles hike back up to the store. Well, for starters, I’m not going to leave my kids in the car and walk that far away from them. I suppose you could say get the kids back out and take them with you to take the cart back, but if you’ve ever wrestled a two year-old into a car seat, you know what I mean when I say that is not an option. And secondly, I’m exhausted by this time, and all I can think about is getting home as quickly as possible! And so, I usually try to park the cart on a median or next to a lamp post, and I leave it. So call me lazy. Call me careless. Call me what you will. But then put yourself in my shoes and realize that some of us out there are just trying to do the best we can! As for how much it costs stores in damages, I think they should get a clue and designate a few of the fifty-jillion handicapped parking spaces to expectant mothers and families with small children. A lot of stores are doing this now, and it sure helps! If I’m not handicapped with two toddlers in tow, then who is?!

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Name : C.B., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Southern Baptist, Age : 29, City : Nashville, State : TN, Country : United States, Occupation : homemaker, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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