Manners!

Where is my manners?! In the bin outside waiting for the unappreciated garbage collector. I always nod at them and give my greetings whenever they pass-by...

But that's not the point of this post, nor does the above statement make much sense in a normal way. xD

For a few weeks now, we have guest-friends at our place. Not unusual. Since I've come back to Belgium, I think we hit the record for having the most guests last year, and it doesn't seem to be stopping this year either.

We are pretty generous. We offer full board B&B at no monetary cost. It doesn't matter if it's a few days or weeks, we do that. It's a family thing.

Guest-friends are usually nice, friendly, always thankful, and ya know...overall great guest-friends.

We did have a small significant number of guest-friends who are in some sort of conflicts with us during their stay, but very very few. Relationships can turn sour, but well...that's another story.

But here it is, manners.

When you are given full-board B&B at NO, yes, I mean NO cost, do you complain and/or be unfriendly and/or not nice to your host? Please tell me there are still people in this world who have manners...

Fine, some would assume that, yea...we just feed 'em with fried eggs and bread, provide a single bed with a crappy shower, no freedom to move in and out, etc. Wrong. We provide full facilities and services. Keys included. Nutritious food and nothing less than what we normally have. Unfortunately, we don't provide a car nor bus/train tickets nor a swimming pool. Sport facilities, chauffeur and bell-boy is on-request and may be arranged. But that's not the point.

So, when you are given such a homely luxury, do you complain?

Manners please...

Am unsure how this will turn out, as everyone is different, and situations are different that result in different consequences...

I don't mind whatever as I can live either way. There are many people who lacks manners. Heck, I forget my manners sometimes, not an excuse of course. People need to be mature as they journey in their life. Sometimes, people don't want to be mature, that's where the problem is - then again only time will tell.

What I mind is how this affects relationships. How do we deal with such people, that's the main question about this whole manners thing. Tolerance. That's what it's all about...

I guess that's why it's uncommon to invite people over to the house, unless you are really good good friends, and/or how it'd usually be events rather than spontaneous invitation or walk-ins or just for a visit from abroad.

Manners. Tolerance.

Two wonderful words. ^^