In her August 13 Wall Street Journal column, ("We pay them to be rude to us" ) Peggy Noonan remarked on different symptoms of how our society has grown less genteel, less polite, and less respectful. Her examples included from an unseen, unknown bank employee on the other end of a phone call presuming to address her familiarly, using her first name; being aggressively accosted by someone on a sidewalk whose attitude was "You WILL sign up for my cause"; how the security people at airports treat your private parts with the same untender care as they would if manhandling a slab of beef.Noonan's article caused me to reflect on changes in our social mores that I have observed over the years. Young table servers no longer say, "How are you today, sir." Instead we (and this includes my wife) are greeted with, "How are you guys?" Can't they at least say "folks"? Guys should be reserved for their contemporaries (and arguably for...(Read Full Post)